River Valleys
The first major river valley civilization...
What is Mesopotamia?
This religion emerged from Jerusalem following the execution and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth...
What is Christianity?
These dotted the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, defining Greek life in the ancient world...
What are islands?
This religious organization ruled Europe after the fall of Rome...
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Adopted during the Scientific Revolution, this process includes formulating an hypothesis, conducting experiments, studying results, and forming conclusions...
What is the Scientific Method?
This outlined strict rules for Babylonians...
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This religion was among the first monotheistic religions in history, founded in ancient Israel...
What is Judaism?
This city was founded on humble beginnings, first as a kingdom, then the world's first Republic, then a feared Empire...
What is Rome?
These protected fiefs in exchange for land & wealth...
What are knights? (Or Vassals)
He painted the Mona Lisa and designed numerous engineering masterpieces of his time...
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
These dotted hillsides in China & Mesoamerica, efficiently collecting rainwater for agriculture...
What are terraces/steppe farms?
This monotheistic religion built upon the teachings of Judaism and Christianity and emerged from the Arabian desert in the 7th Century AD...
What is Islam?
This connected the major civilizations of the ancient world, crossing Asia and Europe...
What is the Silk Road?
This bacteria whipped out almost half of Europe in the 1300s...
What is Yrsenia Pestis?
The ideas that states that the sun is the center of the universe... Scientifically incorrect, but more correct than previous ideas and helped theorize the existence of our solar system...
What is the Heliocentric model?
This ancient city was highly advanced in its technology, with running water and indoor plumbing before any other region of the world...
What was Mohenjo-Daro?
This religion is among the oldest in the world, founded in ancient India and is polytheistic...
What is Hinduism?
Ashoka, the Indian Emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, allowed this kind of freedom for the first time in ancient history...
What is religious freedom?
The name given to people who broke Biblical teachings, living against Christian beliefs...
What are Heretics?
Renaissance ideas were spread all over Europe thanks to this new device from the Silk Road...
What is the printing press?
The rise and fall of rulers in ancient China...
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
This religion rejected the Caste System of Hindu society...
What is Buddhism?
This religion helped cause the collapse of the Roman Empire...
What is Christianity?
Often the most educated people in Medieval Europe, they prayed and studied daily, and helped found the first universities in Europe...
What are monks?
The largest Empire in the Americas before European contact...
What is the Incan Empire?