Unit 1 Review "Overview of World History"

It is estimated that the Bubonic Plague killed about ____ people in China.

What major world religion began as a small group of persecuted people, then spread throughout the entire Roman Empire?

Ancient India produced two major world religions, known as...

The domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country / region is known as...

At the heart of the Scientific Revolution was the idea that...

The Abolition Movement in England brought about the end of ____ in their country in 1833.

In Ancient Egypt ____ was essential to life as a source for agriculture, travel and trade.

As heir to the western Roman empire, the ___ empire formed a civilization of blended Greek, Roman and Christian culture.

Which one of these answers is not one of the basic features of Early Civilizations?

The Age of Exploration was driven during the 1400s by Europeans demand for...

In the Protestant Reformation, ___ taught salvation was by repentance and faith in Christ alone, not through good works.

In the years after WW 2, a global independence movement led to the rise of new nations in many places, except for...

Sadly, European settlement in the Americas lead to the demand for slave labor, which resulted in the development of...

Medieval China had a heavy influence on its neighbors, especially...

Thanks to industrialism, the main source of power in the modern world now is...

Ancient Mesopotamians developed an early form of writing known as...

The Ancient Israelites have had a major influence due to their practice of Monotheism, which is...

During Medieval times the _____ rose to great political, social and economic power.

During the 1800s & early 1900s a wave of ______ spread in the world, encouraging patriotism and political independence.

A key idea is to recognize that ____ allowed for the beginnings of civilization to develop.

The city-state of Athens in Ancient Greece is known as the birthplace of an early form of...

___, born in the town of Mecca in 570 AD, will become the final prophet of the major world religion known as Islam.

A decentralized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their land among lesser lords is known as...

Medieval African resources spurred trade across the continent and into other continents, especially the trade of...

The ___ was a "rebirth" of culture centered on humanism and study of the classical works of Greece and Rome.

The production of goods from being made by simple hand tools to complex machines kickstarted the...

Which was not a cause of World War 1?

World War Two had an enormous impact on world politics, shifting the balance of power from Western Europe to...

Many scholars think that long ago people migrated from ___ to the Americas, leading to Native American Civilization.

The chaos of the French Revolution caused French officials to look to _____ for leadership.

The Medieval period of time between ancient history and early modern history lasted from about...

From 1945 - 1991 ___ pitted U.S.A.'s democratic capitalism against the Soviet Union's form of communism.

In the early 1200s, ____ united the nomadic Mongols of central Asia and conquered lands from China to Eastern Europe.

The rise of cities lead to the world's first known civilizations circa 3000 BC. They are known as _____ Civilizations.

What was the name of the route that connected Ancient China to the western world?

During the 1700s Enlightenment ideas of individual rights & more democratic governments challenged the leadership of...