Ancient Innovations (Egypt)
This river's unpredictable water levels led Ancient Egyptians to build canals and dikes to grow food
What is the Nile River?
This Indian system determined what occupations a person could have, distinguishing between groups like Brahmin priests and Sudra farm workers.
What is the caste system?
Maps of the 15th-century Eurasian and African World-System show that the Black Death primarily spread along these specific paths.
What are trade routes?
Islamic rule in this European territory led to a golden age from the 700s through the 1000s CE.
What is Spain?
Distrust grew between Muslim-ruled regions of the Middle East and Christian governments in Europe as a result of these religious conflicts.
What are the Crusades?
Ancient Egyptians used this specific tool, consisting of a bucket on the end of a cord, to draw water directly from canals.
What is a swape (or shaduf)?
During the Gupta Empire, Hindus believed that no matter what they did, they would experience this and be placed in the same caste in the next life.
What is being reborn (or reincarnation)?
Historical maps indicate that goods and ideas from this eastern region influenced people in the Middle East.
What is East Asia?
In contrast to muddy Paris, this Spanish city featured paved streets and public lamps during the Islamic Golden Age.
What is Cordova?
The fact that Sunnis and Shiites have different views about who should lead their faith supports the generalization that this exists in many religions.
What is a range of beliefs?
If water control methods worked properly in Ancient Egypt, floods were controlled and these increased.
What are crop yields?
This was named the official philosophy of the Han Dynasty because it provided a way to bring order to society.
What is Confucianism?
The 15th-century world system map shows that this Egyptian city benefited greatly from trade because of its geographic location.
What is Cairo?
Golden ages are marked by economic prosperity as well as achievements in these two general areas.
What are science and culture?
Despite the conflict, an increase in this economic activity was a direct result of the Crusades.
What is trade?
This group of rulers oversaw the major endeavor of constructing canals in ancient Egypt.
Who are the pharaohs?
According to Confucian ideas of duty and responsibility, a ruler, husband, or elder brother holds this status over a subject, wife, or younger brother.
What is Superior?
The Black Death spread to Europe as a result of contact with traders from this continent.
What is Asia?
This Mongol leader used psychological warfare, such as spreading stories to cause panic, to conquer most of Asia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Emperor Alexius Comnenus requested help from Pope Urban II because he feared Muslim Turks were going to attack this Byzantine city.
What is Constantinople?
In Mesopotamia and Egypt, the first successful efforts were made to control the flow of this crucial resource.
What is water?
One effect of Confucianism becoming the ruling philosophy of the Han Dynasty was that its writings were taught here
What are schools?
The Black Death affected people in Europe, Asia, and this third region.
What is North Africa?
To reduce a population's will to fight, Mongol armies promised that life and property would be spared for those who offered this.
What is no resistance?
The economic system of manorialism is most closely associated with the Middle Ages in this specific region
What is Western Europe?