Unit 1: Pre-history
What dose B.C. stand for?
What is before Christ?
What is the silk road?
A trade route spreading culture, goods, and ideas.
What are the causes for ocean trede?
2. Envy
3.Wealth
4.New routes to Asia
Who did Spain hire to find a new trade route to the Indian trade network?
Who is Columbus?
What is pre-history?
What is history that was before writing?
What order do these go in? Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Paleolithic
What is Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic
Who are the Mongols?
What are nomadic people of eastern steppes of Asia?
What caused the Catholic Church to lose power?
The actions they took to stop the Bubonic plague.
Who are Italian, Islamic, and Chinese travelers?
1. Marco Polo
2. Ibn Battuta
3.Zheng He
Who were the Mongols, and who was their leader?
Nomadic people from the eastern steppes of Asia, and their leader was Genghis Khan.
What revolution caused hunter and gathers to farmers?
What is the Neolithic revolution?
How did Genghis Khan died?
What is disease?
Who started transaltanic trade?
Spain
What river valley civilizations developed mummification?
What is ancient Egypt?
What were some of the technologies that helped in sea travel?
1. Astrolabe
2. Magnetic compass
What was the first law recorded?
What is Hammurabi's code?
What were the cultures spread over the silk road?
What are Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam?
Who was the wealthiest nation?
The Dutch
What do polytheism and monotheism mean?
Polytheism-Belief in multiple gods
Monotheism-Belief in one god and one god only
What different cultures were adapted from Buddhism?
1. Chan Buddhism in China
2. Zen Buddhism in Japan
Where is ancient China located?
What are Huang He and yellow rivers?
What are the different technologies spread throughout the silk road?
1. Gunpowder
2. Paper money
3. Paper making
Which Empire had access to West Africa?
What is Portugal?
How to calculate the time between dates?
If both dates are B.C. and A.D., then subtract. If the dates are B.C. and the other is A.D., then add.
Where did the Black Death (Known as the Bubonic plague) originate?