Fall Final Vocabulary

2. the major change in human life caused by the beginnings of farming
8. the period when the Mongols imposed stability and law and order across much of Eurasia
10. a period of European history in which a renewed interest in classical culture led to changes in art, learning, and views of the world
11. the body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian
13. a deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people
16. an agreement between Portugal and Spain deciding who would get what parts of the newly discovered Americas
18. respect shown by children to their parents and elders
19. the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
20. a system of caravan routes across Central Asia

1. the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas
3. a system of farming developed in Europe in which farmland was divided into three fields
4. a period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire
5. a procedure for gathering information about the natural world
6. a change in European thought in which the study of the natural world began
7. a book with pages that can be turned
9. a tomb built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife
12. a follower of Islam
14. a belief in many gods
15. one of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India
17. a follower of Sikhism