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Geography
Governments
Social / trade Systems
Africa / China
100
The common geographic feature of MOST ancient civilizations.
What are river valleys?
100
The reason Greece formed as a series of independant city states.
What is the mountainous terrain?
100
The fall of this empire prompted Spain and Portugal to seek new trade routes.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
The trade route that western African nations relied on.
What is the trans Saharan trade route?
100
The group that used the stirrup, superb horsemanship, and siege warfare to conquer Asia.
Who are the Mongols?
200
The original source of an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth as law.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
Control of this gave the Ottomans strength in trade.
What is the eastern Mediterranean?
200
The Golden Ages of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires are defined by this type of government.
What is strong and stable?
200
Lords assigned land and provided protection under this system.
What is feudalism?
200
The achievement most closely associated with Mansa Musa?
What is the spread of Islam?
300
The oldest monotheistic religion.
What is Judaism?
300
Indian mathematicians developed the decimal and concept of zero but it was transmitted to Europe via this region.
What is the Middle East?
300
Contributed to the fall of the Han Dynasty, Rome, and the Abbasid Empire.
What is invasions by nomadic tribes?
300
How / where the plague spread.
What is along trade routes?
300
Muslim scholars excelled in this two basic fields.
What are math and science?
400
The revolution that allowed humans to move from hunting and gathering to farming.
What is the Neolithic revolution?
400
This country serves as a cultural bridge between China and Japan.
What is Korea?
400
The Empire that leads to a split between the Roman Catholics and Orthodox Catholics.
What is Byzantine Empire?
400
Europe's involvement in this created a demand of Eastern goods, a new middle class, and new interest in learning.
What are the Crusades?
400
Chinese citizens (among others) used this technique to increase the amount of available farmland.
What is terracing?
500
The belief system for the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties.
What is Confucianism?
500
Location of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca.
What is Aztec (Mexico) Maya (Mexico / Central America) Inca- South America
500
This Renaissance writer was very focused on the use of political power.
Who is Machiavelli?
500
The primary reason that the renaissance began in Italy.
What that they controlled trade routes in the Mediterranean?
500
The area the received the majority of African Slaves.
What is South America?