Unit 1
What rivers make up Mesopotamia?
What is Tigris and Euphrates
founder of Athenian democracy
What is Solon -- Cleisthenes
political system of the Middle Ages
What is Feudal System
Time period of rebirth in education and learning throughout Europe
What is Renaissance
Conqueror of the Aztecs
What is Hernan Cortes
the spread of ideas, beliefs, and values from people to people
What is Cultural Diffusion
tests given for those wishing to become bureaucrats within Han China
What is Civil service exams
economic system of the middle ages
What is Manorialism
Which man posted his 95 Theses starting the Protestant Reformation
What is Martin Luther
first country to begin exploration
What is Portugal
A geographic similarity between all early civilizations
What is River valleys
the spread of Greek-like culture throughout Persia/Asia
What is Hellenism
conflict between Christians and Muslims for control of Jerusalem
What is Crusades
What allowed for easier spread of Renaissance and Reformation ideas throughout Europe and which man is credited with its invention
What is Printing Press, Johannes Guttenburg
What is triangular trade and what were the parts of it?
What is trade route bringing slaves to New World, Europe cash/cloth/guns to Africa, African slaves to New World, New world goods to Europe
What is the importance of the Neolithic Revolution?
What is shift from nomadic hunting and gathering to farming and permanent villages
2 Social classes of Roman society
What is Plebeians and Patricians
3 effects of the black death on European society
What is 1/3-1/2 population loss, end of feudal system, rise of peasant wages, loss of church power
a focus on individualism and the self verses a betterment of the whole and a focus on the church
What is Secular Humanism
treaty created by Pope dividing lands between Spain and Portugal
What is Treaty of Tordesillas
What major empire eventually controlled much of the trade through the silk road?
Mongols
This man expanded Athenian Democracy during his rule in Athens
What is Pericles
system designed as a blood tax to control the Christian parts of the Ottoman Empire
What is Devshirme
The Catholic Church's attempt to reform itself during the Reformation
What is Council of Trent
system in New World implemented by Spanish to put the native population to work
What is Encomienda system