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This era was humanity’s “glow-up season,” when we went from full-time DoorDash hunters to home-garden influencers settling by rivers like it was prime real estate on Zillow.
What is the Neolithic Era?
When Rome got clapped by the Visigoths in 476 C.E., Europe didn’t just take an L — it started a whole era of this “dim era” known for political chaos and cultural slowdown.
What is the beginning of the Middle Ages/Dark ages /decline of stability in Europe?
Hinduism & Buddhism agreed on this spiritual idea — kind of like life’s respawn button — where your next level depends on how messy (or not) you were in this one.
What is reincarnation?
Once farming started hitting different and there was extra food, humans stopped living that nomad life and started pulling up to these permanent, leveled-up communities.
What are cities/permanent settlements?
This language was the medieval church’s bougie “exclusive members-only” language — the LA-di-da tongue of prayers, rules, and spiritual patch notes.
What is Latin?
This government style is basically the OG group chat — everyone gets a say, nobody gets left out, and one person doesn’t get to run the whole squad
What is democracy?
These laws were basically Rome’s “we’re done being bullied” table of receipts the Plebeians forced into the spotlight.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This Aztec capital was the “New York City/Venice” of its time—built on a lake, super extra, and absolutely not designed for low-key energy.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This major world religion started in the Arabian Peninsula and spread faster than covid from the cities of Mecca and Medina.
What is Islam?
In the Byzantine Empire, this guy acted like the ultimate final boss, controlling the church and the empire like he owned the whole map.
Who is the Emperor?
These diez icumi las ancient rules were the first “Terms & Conditions” people actually read, shaping Western ideas of what’s morally ok and what’ll get thou canceled.
What are the 10 Commandments?
Why the U.S.A looked at Greek buildings and said, “Bet — we want that democracy-core vibe,” copying columns like y'all copy homework… but make it classy.
What is the U.S. wanted to imitate Greek democracy and ideals.
These are like the five non-negotiable tabs on a Muslim’s life dashboard: belief, prayer, giving, fasting, and a VIP trip to Mecca if you can swing it.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam: faith (Shahada), prayer (Salat), almsgiving (Zakat), fasting (Sawm), and pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)?
This political structure kept everyone in their medieval “lane,” locking people into social ranks like it was a Fortnite battle pass you couldn’t upgrade.
What is feudalism?
The Eastern Orthodox Church used this language to correct you with maximum politeness and minimum mercy.
What is Greek?
These 1st laws were the ancient version of “my house, my rules,” where breaking one meant consequences so real your whole squad behaved immediately.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
These teachings all dropped ancient “how to not be messy” guides — basically behavior manuals before self-help books were trending.
What are the 8fold path & 10 Commandments and oh yeah Confucius too.
This former Indian prince said “spoiled palace life is not the vibe,” disappeared to think about everything, and returned as the Buddha with the Eightfold Path included, no subscription required.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama? (Buddha)
If feudalism is “who’s on top of the pyramid,” then this system is “who’s doing all the work so the pyramid doesn’t collapse like a Jenga tower in a hurricane.”
What is manorialism?
After the Black Death shrank the workforce, peasants basically told their lords “you’re gonna pay-pay-pay-pay-pay,” and these ________ started to shake upward.
What are wages/pay?
This religion launched out of ancient Persia — aka the place that today would put “Iran 🇮🇷” in its profile bio.
What is modern-day Iran?
These two systems were basically the “you can’t sit with us” of Indian& Middle Ages European society — where your social rank was locked in harder than a Snapchat streak.
What are the Caste System and Feudalism
These kingdoms were the original “rich in gold” flex on this continent’s west side—long before influencers were flexing on social media.
What is West Africa?
This leader was the official “You better listen or your afterlife gets nerfed” final boss of the Roman Catholic world.
Who Is the Pope?
Some days in high school feel like you’re balancing on the edge of seventeen, trying to seem booksmart even when life demands more moxie than you expected. People don’t always show kindness, and the choices they make can feel like the kind of hate u give that turns ordinary moments unexpectedly spontaneous, almost like the chaotic energy of bodies bodies bodies when drama spreads fast. But between the loyalty you show to all the boys I’ve loved before, the times you feel totally clueless, the moments when everything feels as overwhelming as crossing a desert in Dune, and the urge some days to simply do revenge, you eventually learn that growing up is really about figuring out who you’re becoming.
What are movie titles?