Learning to plant seeds to grow food and learning to domesticate animals were two important discoveries made during this period in history
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
100
Meaning "the way of the gods", this religion is characterized by the worship of the kami, or divine spirits found in all living and nonliving things
What is Shinto?
100
Korea and India are examples of this
What is a peninsula?
100
This empire reached its peak under the autocratic Emperor Justinian, who reigned from 527 to 565
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
The works of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci and Dutch painter Rembrandt celebrated the spirit of this Renaissance "ISM"
What is humanism?
200
As a result of this period in history, Europeans competed for colonies, wealth, and power
What is the Age of Exploration?
200
The eightfold noble path and four noble truths as expressed by Siddhartha Guatama are the foundations of this faith
What is Buddhism?
200
This body of water was the center of trade at the height of the Roman Empire as well as the italian city-states in the 1300s
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
The Han emperor, Wudi, and later emperors developed this caravan trade route stretching from the Chinese capital to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Silk Road?
200
The Code of Hammurabi, the Twelve Tables, and Justinian's Code are all examples of
What is a written legal code?
300
Pope Urban II believed that this would increase his power in Europe and possibly reunite the Eastern and Western Churches
What are the Crusades?
300
This religious system is associated with the social class system in which Brahmins are at the top and the Sudras are at the bottom
What is Hinduism?
300
In about 1000CE, this was an important trading city that lies on the Bosporus connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara
What is Constantinople?
300
The crowning of Frankish king Charlemagne on Christmas Day 800 helped revive the ideal of a united Christian Church in this empire
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
300
Like ancient Egypt, the people of the three great Mesoamerican civilizations built huge pyramid temples to honor their gods and rulers
Who are the Maya, the Aztec, and the Incas?
400
Questions toward Church authority, the rise of strong national monarchs, and problems of corruption and power within the Catholic Church led to this movement
What is the Protestant Reformation?
400
The followers of this faith did not believe that the pope in Rome had supreme authority over them and, unlike Roman Catholic priests, the priests of this faith could marry
What is the Orthodox Christian Church?
400
Home to the Sumerians and Babylonians this region, which stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, is a source of good farmland that lacks natural barriers and allows frequent migrations and invasions
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
This empire expanded its territory in the century that followed the fall of Constantinople by expanding north into the Balkans, into Russia capturing the Crimean peninsula, and even laying siege to Vienna in 1529
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
this period in history included learning centers in Baghdad, Cairo, and Cardoba, artists who were highly skilled in calligraphy, and architectural designed that were influenced by Byzantine domes
What is the Islamic Golden Age?
500
As a result of this trade, hundreds of Africans were taken from their homes and forced to work on plantations in the Americas
What is the triangular trade?
500
These religious books of the three main monotheistic religions provide guidelines to govern the behavior of believers
What are the Torah, the Bible, and the Koran?
500
The Bantu peoples migrated from West Africa to south and east Africa in search of fertile land as a result of this natural phenomenon
What is desertification?
500
The absolutist power of this empire served as a model for later Russian rulers who also expected to rule without interference from groups such as nobles or the Church
What is the Mongol empire?
500
Gothic architecture of the Middle ages seemed to soar upward and was characterized by pointed arches and these stone supports that stood outside the building