Global History I

1. Support beams engineered to hold up structures.
3. No quantity, essential place holder, Gupta Empire.
6. Invented within China during the 9th century, this substance became dominant military technology.
7. Instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars.
8. A system of ancient caravan routes connecting Asia to Europe, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods.
10. Beaded device to count and record numbers.
11. Bridge-like stone structures that carry water from the hills into Roman cities.
12. Use of logic and experimentation, opposite of the belief in the supernatural.
14. A group of traders traveling together.
15. An alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet.

2. A series of steps followed to solve problems.
4. The realizing of human potential, stressing personality, uniqueness, genius, and self-consciousness.
5. Art focused on individuals, humanism, secular nonreligious, perspective, individualism
9. A masonry construction for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it.
13. Moveable type used mass printing.