| Question | Answer |
| Who were the Bedouins? | Arab Nomads
|
What is polytheism? | worshipping more than one god.
| Who was the Empress of the Tang Dynasty during the campaign in Korea? | Wu Zhao
| What made it easier to print pages because they no longer had to carve a whole page of letters in order to print? | movable type
| The Western Roman Empire crumbled in the fifth century when it was overrun by what tribes? | Germanic
| In 527 a high ranking nobleman succeeded to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Who was he? | Justinian
| Otto I called his German-Italian empire what? | The Holy Roman Empire
| Pope Urban II issued a call for a holy war also called what? | The Crusades
| The Sahara keeps moving south a little more each year as it is slowly taking over the . | Sahel
| is a belief system where spirits play an important role in regulating daily life. | Animism
| By 3400 BC early farmers were growing what in the Americas? | maize
| The civilization that would take the place of the Olmec would be the . | Zapotec
| Overseas trade, spurred by the ______________, led to the growth of large city-states in northern Italy. | Crusades
| The study of classical texts led to ______________, an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements. | humanism
| In the late 1300s and early 1400s, _________________________ of England and Jan Hus of Bohemia had advocated Church reform. | John Wycliffe
| What was the Edict of Worms and what was the result? | various
| the Great ruled Palenque in the 600s. | Pacal
| The Maya believed that was a burden carried on the back of a god. | time
| Led by ______________________ of Ghazni, the Turkish armies devastated Indian cities and temples in 17 brutal campaigns. | Sultan Mahmud
| Akbar’s son called himself _______________ , or “Grasper of the World.” | Jahangir
| _____________________, the campaign to drive Muslims from Spain, had been completed only 64 years before the Reformation Movement. | The Reconquista
| What were some of the consequences of Spain's newfound wealth from the Americas? | various
| The Greek astronomer _________________ expanded the geocentric theory in the second century AD. In addition, Christianity taught that God had deliberately placed the earth at the center of the universe. | Ptolemy
| An Italian scientist named _______________built on the new theories about astronomy. As a young man, he learned that a Dutch lens maker had built an instrument that could enlarge far-off objects. He built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609. | Galileo
| During the 1770s and 1780s, France’s government sank deeply into debt. Part of the problem was the extravagant spending of Louis XVI and his queen, _____________________. | Marie Antoinette
| Ever since, July 14—________________—has been a French national holiday, similar to the Fourth of July in the United States. | Bastille Day
| The French colony called _________________ was the first Latin American territory to free itself from European rule. | Saint Domingue
| Who were the two major liberators in South America? | Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
| _____________ saw that the usual way of sowing seed by scattering it across the ground was wasteful. In turn he invented the seed drill. | Jethro Tull
| Around 1764, a textile worker named _________________ invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter. His spinning jenny allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time. | James Hargreaves |
