EOY Review #2 Crossword
Across
- 3. Made possible by the favorable geography that early people lived in; led to the growth of permanent settlements because people didn’t have to roam for food anymore
- 6. Famous trade route stretching from China to Middle East; facilitated the expansion of trade and cultural diffusion
- 8. one major way that the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire united their people and encouraged trade
- 9. The place where gunpowder and the compass were invented before they were diffused to Europe
- 10. Type of math invented in the Islamic Golden Age
- 14. Period of recovering classical learning
- 17. religion/philosopy that holds that all relationships have an inferior and a superior and values filial piety
- 18. Islam spread by warfare and along these
- 21. Scholars fleeing from the Fall of __________ brought classical learning to Western Europe, ending the Middle Ages and beginning the Renaissance
- 23. The most powerful institution of the Middle Ages, it was often the center of religious, political and social life
- 25. Created to ensure order in ancient Mesopotamian society; its idea of “an eye for an eye” influenced later people’s legal systems
Down
- 1. Machine that led to the spread of Reformation ideas attacking the Catholic Church
- 2. Type of government developed in Ancient Rome in which citizens elect representatives who make laws
- 4. Trans-Saharan trade route responsible for the spread of Islam into Africa
- 5. time when Islamic cultures produced great works of art and learning that influenced even European Christians
- 7. A government in which political leaders are also religious leaderss
- 11. form of government invented in Ancient Greece in which each citizen voted directly for laws
- 12. This hastened feudalism's decline by decimating the peasant labor population
- 13. Renaissance philosophy that embraced learning about this world in addition to learning about religion
- 15. Martin Luther's list of ideas critical of mainstream Catholic Theology; arguments over this list started the Protestant Reformation
- 16. People who were bound to work the land of a lord, who was supposed to provide them protection; another word for a peasant
- 19. The Fall of ________ led to a period of chaos and instability in Western Europe and began the Middle Ages
- 20. The type of religion that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all are
- 22. City that Muslims and Christians fought for control of in the Crusades
- 24. Social hierarchy based on how much land was owned by different levels of important people (King, nobility, knights)