The World Before 1450

This man ended Rome's tradition as a democratic Republic and ruled the empire as a military dictator. Who is this man?

To stop heathens, this medieval torture device relied on gravity as the punished sat on a sharp edge of spikes & blades

After the fall of Rome (476CE) scholarship/arts florished elsewhere but not in Europe. What terms describes this era?

Monotheism believes in the existence of one god. Which is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths?

All living human beings are members of what speices?

From the Eurasian Steppes, this man conquered and built the largest empire in world history. Who is he?

Roughly 2M years ago the first human species began to migrate and populate various continents. Where did they come from?

How did the first inhabitants of the North America arrive?

For 300 years this Scandanavian group both traded and raided through much of W Europe

Between 1,000-1,500BCE this area was settled and is the last area to be inabitated by humans

Mesopotamia is home to some of the oldest civs & translates as "land between the rivers." What are the two rivers

what name is given to the revolution that enabled humans to abandon a nomadic existence and settle in one place?

Chinese philosopher who believed societal prosperity depended on good moral character & a strict social hierarchy.

What is the name of the 1st written language, developed to record transactions and recorded by pressing nails into clay.

Dating back 4,500 yrs., the pyramids at Giza are monuments to Egyptian civilization. Along what River are they found?

Between 1185-1603, Japan saw warring military leaders attempt to exert control. What term describes the military leaders

In the 14th C the Black plague decimated European and Asian populations. How did the Pope manage to survive?

What society was the first to centralize rule (1 capitol city, language, currency) and standardize widths & measures?

the oldest of the big internaltional trade routes, the Silk Road connected what two civilzations?

Shi Huangdi, The Qin Emperor sought eternal life and died when his personal physician prescribed what?

In North America what crop enabled people to civilize roughly 4,000 years ago?

Babylonian king Hammurabi is credited with creating the first legal code in 1750BCE. All were punishments EXCEPT

A social structure in which a king granted land to nobles for military protection while peasants farmed for the nobility

at 28,250 ft above sea-level, k2 in the Himalayas is the world's 2nd most elevated spot. In what country does it exist?

In the 13thC the Mongols est. the largest land empire ever. They conquered all of the following places EXCEPT