World History Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. Asian people group highly concentrated in Mongolia, but have also spread across to parts of Northern Asia such as Russia and China.
  2. 4. Religion based on the belief, life, and teachings of Jesus Christ.
  3. 6. A series of laws publicized at the order of King Hammurabi of Babylon.
  4. 8. Belief that spread from India to China and holds commitment to a secluded and monastic life for monks and nuns and holds an abstract philosophy with the concept of infinite eons of time, access to magical powers as reports of miracles abounded.
  5. 10. Eurasian network of northern exchange which was largely a "relay trade" in which goods were passed down the line, changing hands many times before reaching their final destination.
  6. 12. anit-foreign movement which showed the general failure of "self-strengthening" in China. Led by militia organizations, the "Boxers" killed numerous Europeans and Chinese Christians and laid siege to foreign embassies in Beijing.
  7. 15. Large ancient Indian empire founded under a dynasty of classical civilization in the year 320 and lasting until 550.
  8. 20. The use of land for growing and cultivating various crops or the maintenance of animals for business.
  9. 21. Term used by modern historians to refer to the surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries; named after the Greek city Byzantium.
  10. 23. Dominant religion in India and other Asian countries. Aspects of include the belief in Karma and a single God.
  11. 24. New capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by Emperor Constantine in 330 CE.
Down
  1. 1. Exchange of goods through buying and selling.
  2. 2. the Chinese philosophy first enunciated by Confucius, advocating for moral example of superiors as the key element of social order.
  3. 5. Network of the Incan Empire that facilitated, or eased the movement of people and goods. This "royal highway" also represented the empire's power.
  4. 7. system in which the economy is based on agriculture, such as the production and maintenance of crops.
  5. 9. term used for the countries, dominions, colonies and other territories formerly under the control of Great Britain beginning in 1595.
  6. 11. Often known as "gift of the Nile" because the region would not have been able to support a significant human population without the Nile's annual inundation.
  7. 12. study of the world's history physically changing object.
  8. 13. Structures primarily used for religious or spiritual acts.
  9. 14. In the ancient world, an independent or autonomous area, including a city with one shared government.
  10. 16. Dynasty of caliphs who ruled an increasingly fragmented Islamic state from 750 to 1258, eventually becoming little more than figureheads.
  11. 17. Ancient Egyptian constructions built over a tomb, formed by quadrilateral base and triangular faces that meet at the top of the structure.
  12. 18. Dynasty the ruled China from 206 BCE to 220 CE creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building achievement.
  13. 19. A Chinese philosophy/popular religion that advocates simplicity and understanding of the world of nature, founded by the legendary figure Laozi.
  14. 22. The monarch of an empire, typically male.