World History And Geography

Front 1

What did the shift from Hunting and Gathering to systematic agriculture enable?

Back 1

Food Surpluses

Front 2

What contributed to the efficient system of communications that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire and all empires?

Back 2

Well maintained roads and way stations that provided food, shelter and fresh horses for the officials

Front 3

How did the religion of Judaism differ from other religions at the time?

Back 3

They were Polytheistic

Front 4

Define Polytheism

Back 4

Believing in many gods

Front 5

List Reasons for the falls of the Roman, Han, and Gupta Empire

Back 5

Roman
1. invaded by vesigoth's
2. many civil wars
3. could not create a workable political system

Han
1.Weak rulers
2.Forced free farmers to become tenants
3.concentration of land went to wealthy

Gupta
1.Huns invade Gupta
2.Reduced to village size population
3.destruction of agricultural land

Front 6

The growth of great urban centers and capital cities giving rise to an expanding for commodities is one of the many impacts of what religious based empire in Afroeurasia?

Back 6

Roman Empire

Front 7

The trade route between the Roman Empire and China was known as what?

Back 7

The Silk Road

Front 8

The Confucian belief that the government should be open to all men of superior talent is an important concept that became a crucial part of what country?

Back 8

China

Front 9

Define Reincarnation

Back 9

The rebirth of a soul in a new body

Front 10

Why is Constantine's rule so important?

Back 10

He was the first christian Emperor

Front 11

What ancient works did the muslim world recover?

Back 11

Aristotle and other Greek Philosophers

Front 12

What bred centuries of mis-trust between Muslims and Christians?

Back 12

The crusades were not successful in establishing Christianity as a religion in Southwest Asia

Front 13

What was a crucial factor in African trade across the Sahara for the Berbers?

Back 13

Camels

Front 14

Name three things the Bantu migration was integral spreading.

Back 14

Iron Working, Knowledge of Crops, and Trade

Front 15

Of all the variety of items that made their way into the trade markets for African kingdoms, which had value equal to gold?

Back 15

Salt

Front 16

Who brought much of the Eurasian land mass under a single rule creating the largest land mass in history?

Back 16

Genghis Khan

Front 17

In 1066 who invaded England soundly defeating King Harold's forces at the Battle of Hastings?

Back 17

William of Normandy

Front 18

What lesson did the British Monarchy learn upon signing the Magna Carta?

Back 18

The monarch's power was limited, not absolute.

Front 19

Vassalage, which meant warriors swore loyalty to a lord, who in turn took care of their needs, was at heart of what middle aged concept?

Back 19

Feudalism

Front 20

Define Vernacular literature.

Back 20

Literature written in the vernacular--the speech of the "common people".

Front 21

What was the cause of the plague in Europe.

Back 21

Rats had fleas and carried them into many houses, poisoning food. People who were sick spread it through trade routes.

Front 22

What was the basis for the Maya, Inca, Aztec, Pueblo, and Woodland Indigenous peoples of mesoamerica?

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Matrilineal, Patrilineal Lineage, Social Stratification, and Enforced labor

Front 23

What religious component did the Maya, Inca, Aztec, Pueblo, and Woodland Indigenous people of meso-America have in common?

Back 23

Many Dieties

Front 24

The model renaissance was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician and is considered an excellent example of Renaissance Italy's social ideal? Who is he?

Back 24

Da Vinci

Front 25

What was the first Protestant faith?

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Lutheranism

Front 26

What was the main opposition that Martin Luther had with the Catholic Church when he posted his ninety-five theses?

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The sale of indulgences

Front 27

What was it the only thing Martin Luther's believed people needed for their salvation?

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All people needed was faith

Front 28

Humanists studied what five courses?

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Classics, grammar, rhetoric, history, and

Front 29

What is the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century?

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Merchantilism

Front 30

What three things motivated Europeans to explore distant lands?

Back 30

God, Glory, and gold

Front 31

List three negative effects of European exploration in the Americas?

Back 31

Disease, Slavery, and Destruction

Front 32

List one positive result of the Columbian Exchange

Back 32

food crops from the Americas supported population growth in Europe

Front 33

Define Absolutism

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the system of Government in which a ruler holds total power

Front 34

Define devine right of monarchs

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the doctrine that kings derive their right to rule directly from God and are not accountable to their subjects

Front 35

What makes Louis XIV the best example of absolutism

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He effectively identified and controlled his enemies

Front 36

Define "Gunpowder empires"

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Empires that were formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions they conquered

Front 37

List three important religious cities in the Middle East and why they were important

Back 37

Jerusalem, Makkah and Medina and the were important because they were religious capitals

Front 38

As a result of the fall of the byzantine Empire and migration of peoples to Italy, which movements in Europe flourished?

Back 38

The Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment

Front 39

What was the result of the Chinese governments limited foreign trade?

Back 39

Increase Isolation from the west

Front 40

The philosophies and ethics of Confucius were the basis for which Chinese dynasties?

Back 40

Ming and Quing

Front 41

Confucian beliefs about the merchant class caused what to be stopped during the Ming Dynasty?

Back 41

It caused the Chinese to stop all voyages

Front 42

What was China's greatest loss when it closed its ports?

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Science and technology

Front 43

Name the two positive economic changes in Japan under the Tokugawa rulers

Back 43

Banking and Paper

Front 44

Who was the first to believe the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe?

Back 44

Copernicus

Front 45

Whose universal law of gravitation showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe?

Back 45

Isaac Newton

Front 46

Which English philosopher believed scientists should use inductive reasoning?

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Francis Bacon

Front 47

Whose ideas suggest that people were molded by their experiences?

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John Loke

Front 48

......... and many other philosophers, believed the universe was like a clock/watch?

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Voltaire

Front 49

Whose concept of a social contract was that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will?

Back 49

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Front 50

Explain Ptolemy's belief of the universe

Back 50

The universe was a series of concentric spheres with earth fixed at its center

Front 51

Whose observations seemed to indicate that the sun was the center of the universe, and the planets were made of material substance?

Back 51

Galileo

Front 52

Who has been called the father of modern rationalism, which argues Intellectual reason is the chief source of human knowledge?

Back 52

Rene' Descartes

Front 53

Whose lasting contribution to political thought was his analysis of the governmental system of checks and balances?

Back 53

Montesquieu

Front 54

Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, which means what?

Back 54

The state should not regulate the economy

Front 55

Two key characteristic of the Enlightenment were what?

Back 55

Optimism and Rationalism

Front 56

What three things did the Enlightenment philosophers value?

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Process, Education, and Rationalism