Turning Points
The period when people learned to farm and domesticate animals.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The reason why religions can spread around the world.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
This religion believes Jesus is their main prophet.
What is Christianity?
Eye for an Eye type laws.
What is Code of Hammurabi?
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY!* Society that first developed Direct Democracy.
What is Athens?
Time period when the power of the church was weakened
What is a the Protestant Reformation?
This is the person who got credit for "discovering" the new world when really it was just an "encounter" that would forever link the 2 hemispheres.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Being reborn in a new body.
What is Reincarnation?
This is why societies developed in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
What is geography (rivers had fertile soil for growing crops)?
These two city-states were polar opposites in ancient Greece.
What is Athens and Sparta?
Time period where observation and experimentation was promoted over a reliance on the bible.
What is the scientific revolution?
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY!* This is why Greece had to develop separate independent city-states.
What is their mountainous geography?
This religion uses the caste system to help organize society.
What is Hinduism?
This is the type of writing system used in Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
This society was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that later would transfer much of their culture to Russia.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
A focus on the individual was emphasized in this time period.
What is the Renaissance?
Two valuable products traded in Africa.
What are gold and salt?
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all have this in common.
What is monotheism?
What is India and China?
This code of laws was used in ancient Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Many features of this empires government are similar to features of our own modern-day government.
What is the the Roman Republic?
This technology helped spread ideas during the Protestant Reformation.
What is the printing press?
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY!* These two belief systems rely on nature and ancestor worship.
What is Animism and Shintoism?
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY!* This is what Mesopotamia is called today.
What is Iraq?
This is the type of religion practiced in the Byzantine Empire.
What is eastern orthodox?