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the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Age?
100
war in which the Mycenaeans attacked the city of Troy
What is the Trojan War?
100
Arab prophet who founded Islam
Who is Muhammad?
100
period of rebirth of art and learning in Europe lasting from 1300 to 1600
What is the Renaissance?
100
king or queen with absolute control
What is an absolute monarch?
200
the New Stone Age
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
government ruled by a small group of noble families
What is an aristocracy?
200
pilgrimage to Mecca
What is a hajj?
200
German craftsman who developed the printing press
Who is Gutenberg?
200
idea that a ruler receives the right to rule from God
What is divine right?
300
the taming of animals
What is domestication?
300
wars between Greece and the Persian Empire
What is the Persian Wars?
300
formal declaration that someone is no longer a member of the church
What is excommunication?
300
16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of new Christian churches
What is the Reformation?
300
important leader of Russia who started westernization
Who is Peter the Great?
400
land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
400
war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies
What is the Peloponnesian War?
400
Russian emperor
What is a czar?
400
sponsor or supporter of the arts
What is a patron?
400
philosopher who wrote about government - believed everyone is entitled to life, liberty, and property
Who is John Locke?
500
group of Indo-Europeans who settled in India and established a caste system
Who are the Aryans?
500
ambitious leader who brought order to Rome
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
series of attempts made by Western rulers to capture the Holy Land
What is the Crusades?
500
author of The Divine Comedy
Who is Dante?
500
system in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches
What is checks and balances?