Intro to History
Name one early civilization from Quarter 1
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
Nile River Valley
Huang He River Valley
Name one monotheistic religion (there are three).
What is Christianity?
What is Islam?
What is Judaism?
Chinese history is broken into _______, which signal the ruling families for each period of history.
What are DYNASTIES?
During this time, Muslim rulers established one of the largest empires in history.
What is the Islamic Golden Age?
The lowest level of the social hierarchy was occupied by these people.
Who are SERFS/PEASANTS?
The trade routes that crossed the ocean bewteen African and Asia.
What is Indian Ocean trade routes?
This religion spread along the Silk Road and blended with other indigenous/traditional practices.
What is Buddhism?
This man led the Mongols to take over China.
Who is CHINGGIS KHAN? (Genghis Khan)
The trade routes that crossed the deserts of Northern Africa.
What is Sand Roads? (or trans-saharan trade routes)
This disease causes widespread mortality in Europe in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death?
The definition for PREHISTORY.
What is the time before written records?
Name one prophet that Islam, Christianity and Judaism have in common.
Who is Abraham?
Who is Moses?
The name for the land paths between Europe and China, along which goods were traded.
What is the SILK ROADS?
One impact of the Islamic Golden age.
What is (lots of options!!)
camera obscure, coffee, soap bar, tooth paste, shampoo, distilled alcohol, uric acid, nitric acid, alembic valve, reciprocating suction piston pump, mechanized water clocks, quilting, surgical catgut, vertical axle windmill, inoculation, cryptanalysis, frequency analysis, three course meal, stained glass and quartz glass, Persian carpet, celestial globe, algebra, literature, musical instruments, etc
Name one city that was important to the Crusades.
What is Constantinople?
What is Jerusalem?
The other name for the Agricultural Revolution.
What is Neolithic Revolution?
The opposite of MONOTHEISM.
What is POLYTHEISM?
One of the countries that China had a great influence over.
What is Japan?
What is Korea?
One cause of the decline of the Islamic Golden Age.
What is:
political mismanagement after the early Caliphs (10th century onwards),
foreign involvement by invading forces and colonial powers (11th century Crusades, 13th century Mongol Empire, 15th century Reconquista, 19th century European colonial empires)
the disruption to the cycle of equity based on Ibn Khaldun’s famous model of Asabiyyah (the rise and fall of civilizations) which points to the decline being mainly due to political and economic factors.
The purpose of the Crusades was this.
What is to keep the Muslim Turks out of Jerusalem?
This was a common feature of early civilzations.
What is location near WATER? (rivers)
One sacred text you learned about that is NOT the Bible.
What is the Torah (Judaism)?
What is the Koran (Islam)?
What are the Vedas (Hinduism)?
What is the Tripitaka (called Tipitaka in Pali). It is also called the Pali Canon (Buddhism)
Why are the Mongols considered either the BEST or the WORST empire?
greatest area of land
allowed religious freedom
etc (other answers acceptable)
The Islamic Golden Age happened at the same time as this "Age" in Europe.
What is the Dark Ages?
What was one impact of the Crusades on European society?
What is
1) Expanded trade between Asia/Africa and Europe,
2)Weakened the power of the Pope and Catholic Church,
3)Increased the power of Kings,
4) Weakened the Byzantine Empire