Show:
Vocabulary
Classy Civilizations
Exciting Europeans
All Other Places/People
Random Extra ?s
100
The blending of cultures generally due to trade or other interactions of people from different areas, backgrounds and regions
What is cultural diffusion?
100
Famous for building an extensive system of roads, the Twelve Tables and the poets Virgil and Horace
What is ancient Romans?
100
Cause of death of thousands of Europeans during the Middle Ages
What is the bubonic plague?
100
Ancient civilizations developed in these areas due to fertile soil.
What is river valleys?
100
Civilization known for the Mandate of Heaven, production of silk and filial piety
What is Chinese civilizations?
200
The theory that the sun is the center of the universe
What is heliocentric theory?
200
Known for the Cyrillic alphabet, spreading Orthodox Christianity and preserving the customs of ancient Greeks and Romans
What is Byzantine Empire?
200
Spoke out about the corrupt practices in the Catholic Church & wrote the Ninety-Five Theses
What is Martin Luther?
200
Traditional Hindu caste system stated a person's status was based on this.
What is birth?
200
Civilization known for developing an extensive road system, recording data with quipu, and constructing Manchu Picchu
What is the Incas?
300
Age of reason
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Controlled the gold-salt trade
What is the West African kingdoms? (Ghana, Mali & Songhai)
300
Focusing on individual achievements, blending Greek & Roman ideas in art & a rebirth in art and architecture happened during this time period
What is the Renaissance?
300
Combined usage of the caravel, compass and astrolabe helped bring about the...
What is exploration of the Americas?
300
Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei and Nicholas Copernicus are all associated with...
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
System in which land is exchanged for military services and loyalty
What is feudalism?
400
Unable to unite their civilization due to an extremely mountainous terrain
What is ancient Greeks?
400
This technological invention led to the spread of ideas & allowed the Bible to be translated into the vernacular
What is the printing press?
400
These two men led expeditions that interested Europeans in Asian cultures.
What is Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta?
400
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth are part of this
What is Hammurabi's Code?
500
Warrior rules to live by in feudal Japan
What is Code of Bushido?
500
Empire known for inventing the zero and the decimal system, spreading Hinduism, and cave paintings
What is Gupta Empire?
500
During the early Middle Ages, western European societies were dominated by this.
What is the Catholic Church?
500
Absolute monarch in Russia
What is Peter the Great?
500
Period of time when nomads began domesticating animals and civilizations began to develop
What is the Neolithic Revolution?