Classification of Time
Time period from the beginning of human life on Earth. No written records.
What is Pre-History?
A famous trade route across Central Asia during ancient times.
What is the Silk Road?
A time when inventions, discoveries in science, exploration and the arts went into hibernation.
What is the Dark Ages?
Credited with "discovering" the New World because he wrote about it.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Artist who painted the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
Who is Michelangelo?
An instrument used to help captains navigate the seas.
What is an astrolabe? Or What is a compass?
The era (time period) between 476 AD and the 1450s AD
What is the Middle Ages?
A reform movement in the 1500's when religious groups broke away from the Catholic Church and began their own Christian Churches.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
In 1095 pleaded with Christians to fight against the spread of Islam
Who was Pope Urban II?
Explorers were motivated by two things other than discovering new lands or trade routes.
What are greed and gold?
Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci
Line that split the 'New World" in half; Spain claimed new land to the west of the line and Portugal claimed land to the east of the line.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
Main time period when Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC was written.
What is Ancient History?
Trading allowed a people to share information about their cultures, which led to
What is a clash of cultures? War violence
A disease that took millions of lives during the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death or the Plague?
Reasons why it was a scary time for explorers.
What is limited knowledge of the earth and fear of sea monsters?
First document to grant the common people some basic human rights by a royalty figure. It provided inspiration for the United States Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
Belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
A time of rebirth when the arts, literature, and science experienced amazing changes.
What is the Renaissance?
Founder of the world's largest religion.
Who is Jesus Christ?
A shorter route from Europe to India the explorers thought existed if they sailed West instead of East
What is the Northwest Passage?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Wars in which the Christians attempted to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims (Islam).
What are the Crusades?
The time period that starts around 1453 and continues to present day.
What is Modern History?
Founder of Judaism
Who is Abraham?
Claimed by explorers even though there were civilizations already in existence in many of the places they 'discovered'.
What is land?
Launched a huge change in the Catholic religion and started the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his 95 Theses on a church's door.
Who is Martin Luther?
To go against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is heresy?
Belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism?
Italian who traveled eastward on the Silk Road through China and was the first European to write about his adventures.
Who was Marco Polo?
Astronomer who perfected the telescope applied it to astronomical observations.
Who is Galileo?
Being banished from the Church, not being allowed to participate in the sacraments.
What is excommunicate?