World Religions
Trade
Civilizations
Time Periods
100
The following religion:
1. Believes in Abraham
2. Reads the Torah
3. Worships God in a synagogue
What is Judaism?
100
An animal that enabled trade across the Sahara Desert.
What is the camel?
100
The term used to describe civilizations prior to their conquest/colonization.
What is Pre-Colonial?
100
The meaning of BC
What is Before Christ/ Before the Common Era?
200
The two religions founded in India.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
200
The most famous commodity traded along the Trans-Saharan Trade Route besides salt.
What is gold?
200
The agricultural practice in which plants are burned to create more space for crops and fertilize soil.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
200
The period during which European civilizations were organized in the following fashion:
What is feudalism?
300
The belief that "what goes around, comes around."
What is Karma?
300
The Pax Mongolica was primarily responsible for this disease spreading from Central Asia to Europe in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death/Plague?
300
The Aztecs built these floating gardens, or artificial islands, to grow crops in Lake Texcoco.
What are chinampas?
300
The timeframe in which there was peace along the Silk Road and cities were built by the Mongols.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
400
The principles that all followers of Judaism and Christianity must follow that are enumerated in their respective religious texts.
What is the 10 Commandments?
400
What traders in the Indian Ocean utilized to schedule their travels and cross the ocean efficiently.
What are monsoons?
400
The campaigns of Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes and launched a series of conquests that would ultimately create this, the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
400
A series of religious battles fought between European Christians and Middle Eastern Muslim groups.
What is the Crusades?
500
The five pillars of Islam.
What is:
1. Belief in Allah and the Prophet Muhammad
2. Pray 5x a day
3. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca
4. Feed the poor
5. Fast during Ramadan?
500
Items traded along the silk road. (*name at least three*)
What is jade, silk, spices, porcelain, horses, tea, gunpowder?
500
The three major empires in Western Africa during the Post-Classical Period.
What are Mali, Ghana, and Songhai?
500
The impact of Mansa Musa's pilgrimage on religion.
What is the spread of Islam?