This event split the Roman Empire by Religion
The Great Schism
This is why Constantinople was so important in the Medieval period
It was in the middle of the trading routes from Europe, Asia and Africa
The Medieval Walmart
This is the vocab term we use when describing the trading of ideas and belief systems on the silk road
BONUS: can you tell me something else we cannot see with our eyes traded on the silk road that is bad?
Cultural Diffusion
Bubonic plague
King
Church / Nobles
Knights
Peasants
These are some technologies/innovations that the Mesoamerican societies created?
accurate calendar, obsidian tools, aqueducts, messenger system, quipu, rope suspension bridges
This is the religion of the Byzantine Empire (old Eastern Roman Empire)
Eastern Orthodoxy
This is how people would trade for salt and gold in West Africa
This is why the Mongols were so successful at territorial conquests
Lighting attacks ~ attacking on horseback with arrows
These three things led to the decline of Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Hundred Years War
Magna Carta
YOU WILL ONLY GET ALL OF YOUR POINTS IF YOU GIVE ME EXAMPLES FROM EACH SIDE
Europe ~ diseases, grapes, coffee livestock (cows, pigs, horses)
America ~ potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, vanilla, corn
These are some important landmarks of the city of Constantinople
Hagia Sophia
The double wall
Hippodrome
This West African King spent a large majority of gold when he was taking his Hajj to Mecca
Mansa Musa
This is the name of the great Mongol Khan who unified the Mongol clans and conquered the territory under the silk road
Genghis Khan
Renaissance is French for
Rebirth
BONUS: which one was unsuccessful and which one relied on the help of Native Americans?
Plymouth
Jamestown
Roanoke
This emperor of the Byzantine Empire is often referred to as 'the great' and was married to his wife Theodora
Justinian the Great
These are the five pillars of Islam
Shahada (profession of faith)
Salah (prayer)
Swam (fasting)
Zakat (giving to the poor)
Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)
This is a theological religion of China, which stresses the roles and responsibilities of the family dynamic (mainly used for government)
Confucianism
What were some impacts of the Protestant Reformation
Increased literacy rates
The creation of new branches of Christianity
Religious Wars
The creation of nation states
Catholic church has less power
The diseases they brought over with them (smallpox)
These were some ways that the Ottomans invaded Constantinople
Used cannons to break down the city walls
Carried their boats on land around the Golden Horn chain
Used Turkish miners to dig deep under the wall foundations
When conquering new lands, the Ottomans would take the children of Christian families and incorporate them into the empire as warriors and teach them the religion of Islam, these warriors are referred to as
The Janissaries
List the four different levels of Japanese feudalism
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
Peasant
This is why the discoveries about space that Copernicus and Galileo proposed were dangerous
BONUS: can you tell me the theory that Copernicus proposed
They opposed the Catholic Church
Heliocentric theory
Aztec - Chinampa
Maya - Slash and burn
Inca - Terrace farming