Development of Civilization
This was the fundamental shift of human beings from tribes of hunter-gatherers to communities that practiced subsistence agriculture.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This is the world's oldest known monotheistic religion.
What is Judaism?
He was an Italian merchant who spent many years in China and wrote a famous book that helped Europeans to learn about Asia.
Who was Marco Polo?
This was the name of the Italian Jesuit missionary who introduced Christian teaching to the Chinese empire in the 16th century.
Who was Mateo Ricci?
This empire created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world, lasting from 1299 to 1922.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This religion includes the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
He was king of the Franks and then first emperor of what was later called the Holy Roman Empire.
Who was Charlemagne?
The third Ming emperor restored Dadu as the imperial seat of the dynasty and gave it this new name, meaning “Northern Capital."
What is Beijing?
This was the previous name of Istanbul, which was the capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.
What is Constantinople?
This is the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin are thought to have originated by the early 9th millennium BCE.
What is the Fertile Crescent? / What is Mesopotamia?
This ancient polytheistic religion is closely linked to India and includes the concepts of karma, dharma, and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
This was the name given to the social, economic, and political conditions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
This imperial palace complex was built by the Ming emperor Yongle from 1406-1420.
What is the Forbidden City?
Members of this elite corps in the standing army of the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century to 1826 were often kidnapped as children and forced to convert to Islam.
What were Janissaries?
This ancient form of paper was invented by the ancient Egyptians, using the plant of the same name that grows along the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
This is the name of the Indian spiritual teacher who is revered as the founder and the first Guru of Sikhism.
Who was Guru Nanak?
Joan of Arc was the national heroine of France who led the French army in a major victory over the English during this conflict.
What was the Hundred Years' War?
Zhu Xi was the Chinese philosopher whose synthesis of this philosophy long dominated Chinese intellectual life.
This was the system the Ottoman Empire used that allowed different religious groups to follow their own set of laws.
What is the millet system?
The earliest civilizations in China developed in the third millennium BCE along these two rivers.
What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?
This was the original name of the Indian prince who renounced his wealth, escaped from his palace, and meditated under a bodhi tree for 49 days, and became "the Buddha."
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
This was the political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.
What was manorialism?
The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644 and restored native Chinese rule after this dynasty.
What is the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty?
This was the final emperor of the Byzantine Empire, who died defending Constantinople in 1453.
Who was Constantine XI Palaeologus?