Economic Systems
Belief Systems
Empires
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100
This professional person would be concerned with the factors of production, scarcity of resources and systems of exchange.
What is an economists?
100
Brahma, Dharma and Karma are all associated with this Indian religion.
What is Hinduism?
100
Accelerated the blending of Persian, Indian, Greek and Egyptian culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
The year AND person who unknowingly changed world history forever.
Who is Christopher Columbus in 1492?
100
Greco-Roman ideas of humanism, the revival of trade and the growth of Italian City States are all associated with this period of cultural creativity.
What is the Renaissance?
200
This kind of economy relies on agricultural produce, bartering and usually is connected to religious beliefs.
What is a traditional economy?
200
Believed that social order could be established through a harmonious interaction of superior and inferior members of the family or society.
Who is Confucius?
200
These two empires traded with each other and used roads to unify their territories.
Who are the Romans and Han Chinese?
200
Changed Europe's understanding of the world by proving the world to be round via experience.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
A surplus of food led to the growth of complex societies during this period.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
With the "conclusion" of the Crusades, European markets expanded, trade routes revived, guilds, currency systems, financial institutions and capitalism grow.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
300
The names of the African and Japanese belief that spirits reside in nature.
What is Animism AND Shintoism?
300
The fall of this empire to Ottoman Turks would cause Spain and Portugal to seek a new route to India.
What is the Byzantine empire?
300
These two diseases created vast labor shortages in Europe and the America's respectively.
What is smallpox and the Bubonic plague a.k.a Black Death?
300
If this didn't happen we wouldn't have pizza OMG NO!!!
What is the Colombian Exchange?
400
The travels of this lucky man revived trade between China (East) and Europe (West).
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Civilizations associated with this religion produced writing in calligraphy, geometric art work, algebra and medical encyclopedias.
What is Islam?
400
The rise of the Catholic church and the domination of feudal lords resulted from the fall of this empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
400
This Ming Dynasty mariner explored the Indian Ocean on behalf of the Chinese emperor.
Who is Zheng He?
400
The Maurya and Gupta are Indian empires but this "Indian" empire was in the Andes mountains.
What is the Inca empire?
500
Mother countries sought to control colonies, trade, raw materials and markets.
What is mercantilism?
500
While Martin Luther believed faith to be the ticket to heaven, John Calvin believed in this concept of salvation.
What is predestination?
500
Donald Trump wants to build a wall to keep "illegal immigrants" out but the Chinese built a wall to protect themselves from this group.
Who are the Mongols?
500
He decided that going around Africa was the best alternative route to the Indian Ocean trade network.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
500
This device used the STARS to help explorers navigate the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the astrolabe?