Review
People who move around from place to place as opposed to settling down in one area.
What are nomads?
This is the continent where institutions such as the Catholic Church and feudalism were found
What is Europe?
This empire was founded by Genghis Khan, who united many nomadic tribes.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Feudalism is when people lived in castles and fought as knights. This also known as what period of time.
Medieval Times
What type of people are most commonly associated with the Paleolithic Era?
Cavemen
This early civilizations settled near rivers to provide them crucial resources.
What are river valley civilizations?
This is the continent that both the Mongol and Islamic empires started on.
What is Asia?
This empire was located in the remains of the eastern Roman Empire
What is the Byzantine Empire?
In a feudal system, people depend most on agriculture, or in other words, this.
What is farming?
Name the three river valley civilizations
These pathways are one of the main ways that goods, culture, and new technology spread during the Post-Classical Age.
What are trade routes?
This is the continent the trans saharan trade route was found on.
These empires are most closely associated with an Islamic Golden Age.
What are the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates?
This institution played a major role in life in medieval Europe. In addition to their primary purpose, they also offered legal services, acted as hospitals, and legitimized rulers' claims to their thrones.
What is the Catholic Church?
Name two major ancient trade routes
Some combination of Mediterranean, Trans Saharan, Silk Road, Indian Ocean
This is the what the Chinese Dynasties used to justify their rule. It said that the gods had selected a specific person to rule China.
What is the Mandate of Heaven.
How many continents were the Islamic Caliphates able to spread to?
3
The Caliphate spread which important religion?
Islam
These are the people at the bottom of the Western European feudal social system.
Who are the peasants?
Which Chinese Dynasty is considered China's Golden Age?
Han
This overland trade route connected Europe to China.
What is the Silk Road?
These two Islamic empires were located across North Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula.
What are the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates?
What allowed for the Mongols expand so quickly?
Their strong and organized military.
These people are at the top of the Western European feudal system.
Who are Kings and/or Clergy?
Who was the great explorer who traveled the entire Silk Road from Italy to China and later wrote a book about it?
Marco Polo