Vocab

Question 1

Belief system in Africa that believes every single being has a soul.

Answer 1

Animism

Question 2

Roman system of transporting clean water through gravity.

Answer 2

aqueduct

Question 3

European nobility.

Answer 3

Aristocracy

Question 4

Showed the position of the planets and stars to show information about them.

Answer 4

Arstosble

Question 5

Ruler with absolute power.

Answer 5

Autocrat

Question 6

Book on christianity and describes the teachings and death of jesus.

Answer 6

Bible

Question 7

High Ranking Priest in Hindu Society - Top of the caste system

Answer 7

Brahaman

Question 8

Devastating disease that ravaged europe and asia for many years, often resurging in severity many times.The disease is fatal if not treated and is spread via bites from infected fleas, cough droplets, and through contact with infected bodily fluids, the third type of plague infection

Answer 8

Bubonic plague (black plague)

Question 9

A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives

Answer 9

Bureaucracy

Question 10

Japanese samurai’s “code of honor” - similar to Middle Ages knights’ Chivalry Code

Answer 10

Bushido

Question 11

Islamic successors of the prophet Muhammed

Answer 11

Caliph

Question 12

Form of writing derived from Islamic and Muslim cultures

Answer 12

Calligraphy

Question 13

When an agricultural crop is grown to sell and make profit

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Cash crop economy

Question 14

Behavior knights followed during the middle ages

Answer 14

Chivalry

Question 15

An advanced human society, culture, or way of life in an area

Answer 15

Civilization

Question 16

The swap of Old and New World diseases, animals, plants, and cultures

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Columbian exchange

Question 17

Economy where production, investments, prices, and incomes are determined by the government.

Answer 17

Command economy

Question 18

An increase in commerce in Europe after the Middle Ages.

Answer 18

commercial revolution

Question 19

A Spanish conqueror of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

Answer 19

conquistador

Question 20

An assembly for church reform called by Pope Urban II on November 18, 1095, which became the occasion for initiating the First Crusade.

Answer 20

Council of Clermont

Question 21

Each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to the Holy Land in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.

Answer 21

Crusades

Question 22

Spread of cultures, goods and ideas through trade or travel

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Cultural diffusion

Question 23

System of writing in ancient Mesopotamia similar to the hieroglyphic writing in Egypt

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Cuneiform

Question 24

Removal of trees in an area

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Deforestation

Question 25

a dry region with little to no water and vegetation around

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Desert

Question 26

The process where fertile land becomes a desert

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Desertification

Question 27

The eternal and inherit nature of reality

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Dharma

Question 28

The spread of people from their original homeland

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Diaspora

Question 29

A form of government in which the policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible

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Direct Democracy

Question 30

an ancient idea that began with Europe's medieval kings.

Answer 30

Divine Right

Question 31

institutional act of religious censure used to end or at least regulate the communion of a member of a congregation with other members

Answer 31

Excommunicate

Question 32

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals

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Feudalism

Question 33

well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class

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Gentry

Question 34

deriving from the middle ages, a dark or mysterious culture

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Gothic

Question 35

a group of merchants who have power over a certain field of trade

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Guild

Question 36

Greek culture after Alexander the Great

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Hellinistic

Question 37

A sacred Catholic land that was occupied by Muslims

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Holy Land

Question 38

Philosophy of life that considers the welfare of humankind

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Humanism

Question 39

The legal code in Byzantine from 529 to 565

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Justinians Code

Question 40

the sum of a person's actions in this and the next existence

Answer 40

Karma

Question 41

consolidated earlier roman traditions into a set of laws

Answer 41

Laws of the Twelve Tables

Question 42

A government where a monarch agrees to share power with a parliament and abide by a constitution

Answer 42

Limited Monarchy

Question 43

Document issued in 1215 that stated that the king and his government was not above the law

Answer 43

Magna Carta

Question 44

A Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the king or Emperor of China

Answer 44

Mandate of Heaven

Question 45

A type of land ownership where everyone lived on the lord's land and had a social class, where serfs were at the bottom and did all the farming and hard labor.

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Manorialism

Question 46

Time that lasted from the 5th century to the 15th century, mostly rural and had the bubonic plague.

Answer 46

Medieval

Question 47

The thought to increase wealth or power of a nation through trade.

Answer 47

Mercantilism

Question 48

a period of ancient Egyptian civilization

Answer 48

Middle Kingdom

Question 49

A route for slave trade

Answer 49

Middle Passage

Question 50

Religion with only one god

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Monotheistic

Question 51

A place of prayer for Muslims

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Mosque

Question 52

A feeling of patriotism towards our country

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Nationalism

Question 53

final stage of cultural evolution in the stone age, archeological age

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Neolithic

Question 54

a list of propositions for an academic distribution written in 1517 by Martin Luther

Answer 54

95 theses

Question 55

a state of spiritual enlightenment, end of suffering

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Nirvana

Question 56

people who have no permanent home, gather food, and travel

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Nomad

Question 57

a form of government in which a small group of people hold most or all political power

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Oligarchy

Question 58

a religious figure/the male head of a family or tribe

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Patriarch

Question 59

a system where men are in authority over woman in all aspects of society

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Patriachal

Question 60

a period of great peace, stability, and economic prosperity in rome (translates to “roman peace”)

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Pax romana

Question 61

Ruler in Ancient Egypt

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Pharaoh

Question 62

Belief in or worship of more than one god

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Polytheistic

Question 63

A religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s

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Protestant Reformation

Question 64

English protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to rid the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices

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Puritans

Question 65

the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic

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Quran (koran)

Question 66

a person or animal that has been reborn

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Reincarnation

Question 67

the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th century

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Reniassance

Question 68

the hereditary military nobility of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century

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Samurai

Question 69

mixed woodland-grassland ecosystem

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Savanna

Question 70

division in or separation from a church or religious body.

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Schism

Question 71

non-religious

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Secular

Question 72

Official law making group or council

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Senate

Question 73

a person forced to work on a plot of land bound by feudalism

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Serf

Question 74

Islamic “right path” laws based on the teachings of the Qur’an and Muhammed

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Sharia

Question 75

Second most followed branch of Islam. Believe that Islam should be led by descendants of Muhammed

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Shiite

Question 76

Japanese religion that centered around worship and respect for nature spirits and ancestors. Believe that every living thing in nature contains a spirit.

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Shinto

Question 77

Japanese hereditary military leaders who were technically appointed by the emperor.

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Shogun

Question 78

trade route that transferred most asian goods to europe

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Silk Road

Question 79

the larger of the two main branches of Islam, which differs from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna, its conception of religious leadership, and its acceptance of the first three caliphs.

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Sunni

Question 80

The application of science for practical purposes.

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Technology

Question 81

A series of flat areas made on a slope, used for farming.

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Terrace

Question 82

A state subordinate to a more powerful neighboring state.

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Tributary

Question 83

a member of the lowest-caste or a person outside the caste system

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Untouchables

Question 84

the philosophical-religious texts of Hinduism

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Upanishads