AMSCO Prologue

The Crusades ultimately resulted in Christian control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land

What became the capital of the eastern Roman Empire?

The fifth pillar of Islam is to make a pilgrimage to ____________.

What animal allowed for long distance trade across the Saharan Desert of Africa?

Egyptian civilization was located along the Indus river valley

What sea did Rome build their empire around?

Both reincarnation and the caste system are key beliefs of Hinduism

What ocean developed a vast trading network as sailors understood the pattern of monsoon winds?

Buddhism spread outside of India and across Asia along the Silk Road trade routes

Chinese civilization is distinctive because of the special honor that is people gave to their ancestors

Confucianism taught people how to live in harmony with nature

Most of the world's first civilizations were located

Teotihuacan, located near Mexico city, was one of the largest cities in the world in the 6th century CE

The Mandate of Heaven provided justification for an emperor and his family to rule over China

What is considered the golden age of China during the classical period?

What was the name of the military general that led Japan?

Although early human societies were considerably egalitarian, they were slightly dominated by _______________.

Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine

What is considered the golden age of India during the classical period?

Where did humans first appear?

Sparta is considered the birthplace of democracy

Sunni Muslims believe that the caliph, or leader of the Islamic community, must be a blood relative to Muhammad

Vikings leds invasions across a weakened western Europe

What is an accomplishment of the Mayans?

Bantu speaking people migrated across Africa spreading their language, farming techniques, and knowledge of iron

Under the Tang dynasty both gunpowder and paper money were invented

The first civilizations appeared when humans began hunting animals and foraging for seeds and edible plants

Jews were heavily persecuted by the Roman Empire leading to the diaspora

What Chinese dyansty constructed the Grand Canal, unifying China north and south

Mesopotamia was the first civilization to develop a written language

Judaism is an example of a polytheistic religion

Persia was divided into hundreds of city states

Islam is a polytheistic religion that originated on the Arabian Peninsula

Under the Abbasid Caliphate all non-Muslims were forced to convert to Islam

Rome heavily borrowed from Greek culture