Ancient Civilizations
This person studies written evidence from the past to learn about human history
Who is a historian?
This Greek city-state was known for military training and strict discipline.
What is Sparta?
This medieval system exchanged land for loyalty and military service.
What is feudalism?
Italy became the center of the Renaissance partly because trade across this sea brought wealth and ideas.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
European explorers searched for new ocean routes mainly to gain direct access to this continent.
What is Asia?
The world’s earliest civilizations developed near these because they provided water and fertile land.
What are rivers/major waterways?
According to legend, this event caused the Trojan War to begin.
What was the kidnapping of Helen?
These religious wars were fought over control of the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
Renaissance art differed from medieval art because it became more realistic and included these types of subjects.
What are secular/non-religious subjects?
The Jamestown colony became profitable because settlers successfully grew and exported this crop.
What is tobacco?
Ancient Egyptians believed their rulers were this, which helped pharaohs maintain power.
What are gods on Earth/divine rulers?
This Spartan king became famous for defending Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who was Leonidas?
These Scandinavian raiders first attacked monasteries in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Who were the Vikings?
This Renaissance writer described an ideal society in his book Utopia.
Who was Thomas More?
During the 1500s, this country controlled much of the spice trade between Europe and Asia.
What is Portugal?
This Babylonian legal code became famous for being one of the first written sets of laws.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
Rome often strengthened its empire by doing this with the gods and customs of conquered peoples.
What is adopting some foreign gods and traditions into Roman culture?
In Russia, these workers remained tied to the land even when a new lord took control.
Who were serfs?
In The Prince, this thinker argued that rulers sometimes must act ruthlessly to keep power.
Who was Machiavelli?
Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire partly because this disease devastated the Aztec population.
What is smallpox?
This Chinese political belief stated that natural disasters and famine could show a ruler had lost the right to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This war between Athens and Sparta weakened Greece and made it vulnerable to outside conquest.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
This event in 1054 permanently divided Christianity into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
What was the Great Schism?
This Protestant reformer taught that salvation could be achieved through faith alone rather than Church practices.
Who was Martin Luther?
After this war, England became the dominant colonial power in North America.
What was the French and Indian War?