People have to adapt to it. It effects their culture and lifestyle.
What is geography?
100
Copernicus, Galileo and Isaac Newton were all important figures during this period of rapid intellectual change and development.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
This Indian empire developed the concept of zero and left the Ajanta cave drawings expressive of Buddhist concepts.
What is the Gupta Empire?
100
The forced migration of Black Africans from the African continent to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage or Triangular Trade?
100
The African trade kingdom of Mali traded gold for this valuable raw material.
What is salt?
200
The concept of zero is used by Arabs. The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet. Chinese monks practice Buddhism.
What is cultural diffusion?
200
This person suggested that life, liberty and property are to be protected by the government.
Who is John Locke?
200
These two Greek city states emphasized war and democracy respectively. They emerged seperately because of the mountainous terrain of Greece.
What are Sparta and Athens?
200
These two diseases produced a severe labor shortage in Europe and the Americas.
What are smallpox and the Black death or Bubonic Plague?
200
These kinds of European monarchs believed their power came from a higher power.
What are Divine Right Monarchs or Absolute Monarchs?
300
The Chinese, Greeks and Romans all believed their cultures were superior and the others were barbaric.
What is ethnocentricity?
300
The ideas of this revolution directly influenced the political reasoning of the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
This empire prospered after the fall of Rome and preserved Greco Roman culture while influencing Russia with Orthodox Christianity.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
300
This global trade system led to the transfer of plants, animals, people and diseases from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere and vice versa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
Absolute monarchs did this with their power during the Age of Absolutism. HINT: Think of the circle...
What is centralized power?
400
Peasant farmers tend to be the most populous group although they usually lack wealth and power. The wealthier more powerful population is usually smaller and placed at the top.
What are class systems?
400
Baron de Montesquieu believed the powers of government should be seperated into these three branches.
What are the executive, legislative and judicial branches?
400
The collapse of this empire led to the European Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Empire?
400
This system of forced labor corresponded to a class system which placed Peninsulares at the top, mixed people in the middle and pure natives and Africans at the bottom.
What is the encomienda system?
400
Human beings came from the Great Rift Valley of this continent and subsequently migrated all over the world.
What is Africa?
500
These persons seek knowledge and wisdom and often influence their societies with their ideas. Examples owould be Confucius, Socrates and Plato, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
Who are philosophers?
500
The Scientific revolution and Enlightenment emphasized the value and power of human reasoning. However, the rebirth of this value system happened during this period of European history.
What is the Renaissance?
500
This classic era civilization owes much of its development to Phoenician and Egyptian accomplishments. They explored the democratic values, the humanities, arts, sciences, and emphasized the value of the individual.
What is classical Greece?
500
This trade system was based on the mother countries domination of colonies and included the extraction of raw materials and sale of manufactured goods.
What is mercantalism?
500
The change from nomadic hunter gathering to settled farming societies and civilizations.