Early River Valley
What is the Nile?
Who is Martin Luther?
Manors were _____________________. Meaning they were able to provide for themselves at home.
What is self-sufficient?
A devastating epidemic that struck large portions of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century (1300s). In Europe, it killed between ⅓ and ⅔ of the population, depending on the region
What is the Bubonic Plague? What is the Black Death?
The continent that the Incas are located on.
What is South America?
The area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers used for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The device that transfers ink onto paper. It helped spread information more quickly and increased literacy rates.
What is the printing press?
This word describes the lifestyle of the Mongols.
What is a nomad?
What is Jerusalem?
Period in history when the Europeans began sea voyages of exploration. During this period, Europeans reached the Americas and began to colonize (take over) areas in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
What is the Age of Exploration?
The movement from a nomadic life to settled farming. Agriculture and domestication.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The model that shows the earth is in the center of the universe. Developed by Nicolas Copernicus.
What is the heliocentric model?
This social system created in Europe to provide stability after the fall of Rome. Nobles had control of land where serfs worked on a manor.
What is feudalism?
Alexander the Great spread a blend of Persian, Egyptian, Greek, and Indian culture.
What is Hellenism?
The exchange of people, plants, animals, ideas and technology between the “Old World” (Europe) and the “New World” (North and South America)
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The law code to create order in Mesopotamia. (hint: eye for an eye)
Renaissance that emphasized human potential and achievements. Shifting focus from the church to human thinking.
What is humanism?
This city is important because it is in the center of all trade and it helps make a lot of money. Capital of the Byzantine Empire
What is Constantinople?
What polytheistic religion believes in reincarnation?
What is Hinduism?
The method of farming used by the Aztecs in order to adapt to their environment.
What are chinampas/floating gardens?
Why the Yellow River Valley in China is Yellow.
What is silt/dirt?
What is the counter-reformation?
This is the name of the empire that took over after the Roman Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Where the Black Death originated.
What is East Asia?
The belief that a mother country needs to colonize (take over) smaller countries take their resources: gold and silver. Getting this gold and silver will make them more rich and powerful
What is mercantilism?