World History Semester Review

During his reign, the Ottoman Empire experienced its Golden Age

Inca people ruled Mexico and neighboring areas before the Spaniards conquered the region in the sixteenth century

The result of the Atlantic Slave trade on West Africa was an increase in population

This Italian explorer sailed for Spain in 1492 & found the West Indies

The Europeans wanted to use new ______ tools which was why they encouraged oceanexploration.

A well-preserved set Babylonian laws of ancient Mesopotamia that established the principle of equality before the law.

Shah Jahan built this in memory of his wife Mumtaz

Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families

Appeal of the Five Pillars, tolerant attitude toward conquered people, and monotheistic religion.

Trade was NOT an effect of the Mongol empire during the 1200s

This military expedition introduced new goods and ideas into medieval Europe

A Renaissance artist who created the School of Athens

Description of painting created during the Renaissance

This writer and diplomat wrote that the “the end justifies the means and it is better to be feared than loved”.

Military, social and political customs in which land was exchange for work was called

Which dynasty did the rule of Shi Huangdi, legalism, and the tomb of terracotta soldiers are associated?

Francisco Pizarro was the Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.

Split between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

The Ottoman & Safavid Empires both declined because of incompetent Leaders

A strict social structure of Aryan India was called?

A system of government which people choose their rulers by voting for them in elections

Which religion is the Torah for?

The Mayan calendar was based on observations of the planets, sun & moon.

This event caused the Catholic Church to weaken and divide into several forms of Christianity

One of the Mesoamerican civilizations, that was famous for its developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americans.

This Mughal leader supported government reform & cultural achievements.

What were the early forms of writing of Mesopotamia called?

Greek architecture is best described by rows of columns and principles of symmetry and harmonious proportions

Period when humans built the first permanent settlements

This religion rejected the caste system and was founded by the “Enlightened One”

This Mesoamerican civilization was the largest & created an extensive road system

Which empire preserved Greek and Roman texts and had advances in astronomy and medicine?

Is a ruin that was once the capital whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450

These are the heart of the divine law and all people are treated equally before God

This person took a hajj to Mecca and was able to spread Islamic cultural achievements to West Africa.

Socrates was a philosopher famous for his method of questioning

Which individual claimed that the king, rather that the Pope is the head of the church in England?

Religion that teaches people are born into their position in society based upon their deeds in a previous life

The program that was designed to turn Christian boys into Muslim elite soldiers was called samurai.

These are a collection of hymns and other ancient religious texts written in India between about 1500 and 1000 BC

__ exploration motive was spreading of the Christianity, search for alternate trade routes, personal and national glory.

This Mesoamerican civilization practiced human sacrifices for religious offerings

Western Europe and __ were ruled by decentralized but loyal political structures.

Which empire achieved the use of a decimal system, development of the concept of zero and Buddhist cave paintings?

Document, signed by King John of England in 1215, declared that the king and government were bound by the same laws

Which empire fits the following characteristics: invention of paper;used civil service exams; opening of the Silk Road?

A pattern of colonial commerce from the New World, to Europe, to Africa, and then back to the New World once again.

Mongol influence isolated ___ from Western Europe

A German religious reformer who started the Protestant Reformation

Was an ancient network of trade routes, established during the Han Dynasty, which linked the East and West regions

The sale of these was a policy of the Catholic Church that Martin Luther spoke out against

This invention, by Gutenberg, encouraged the spread of ideas, during the 1500s

This code of the Byzantine Empire preserved Roman law.

This place was a state that dominated the 15th and 16th century. It was one of the largest states in African history

The Catholic Church was the unifying factor in European society during the Middle Ages.

Time period that had a renewed interest in classical Greece & Rome, and increased focus on individuals was Reformation

This country adopted the policy of isolationism because they felt superior in exploration

This scientist calculated a significant geometric formula

Refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds; exchanges of items & diseases

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are representatives of this Monotheistic religion.

This empire captured the city of Constantinople in 1453.

The Torah was the sacred text that was revealed by the angel Gabriel and provided to the Prophet Muhammad

Who was responsible for the expansion of Hellenistic culture?

Who was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, whose center location was in Cusco in modern-day Peru?

This artist was considered a “Renaissance Man”-a scientist, a painter, a sculptor, an architect, an inventor.

What were the early forms of writing of Egypt called?

One of the achievements most closely associated with the Tang and Song dynasties of China

Manorial system was an economic and social system of medieval Europe.

The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus and the holy book is the Bible.

Religious was the theme for art and philosophy in Europe, during the Middle Ages?

This Chinese explorer traded with Southeast Asia and India

Which civilization contributed the spread of Christianity, establishing the rule of law, and the invention of concrete?