| A | B |
|---|
| Empire that covered Spain, the Arabian Peninsula, and much of North and Central Africa in the 700s AD | The Muslim Empire |
| Adopted China’s government, writing system, arts, religion, and agriculture | Japan |
| Home of the Incas | Andes Mountains of Peru |
| Original home of Buddhism | China |
| Where Muhammad began his public teaching and home to the Ka’aba shrine | Mecca |
| Home to an Islamic learning center along the sub-Saharan caravan trade route | Timbuktu |
| War that started after Muslims captured the holy city of Jerusalem | The Crusades |
| Began partly out of Renaissance ideas about questioning the Church | The Protestant Reformation |
| Began when trade increased between Europe and the Far East | The Renaissance |
| Completed the reunification of China | Tang Dynasty |
| Based on Renaissance humanism, Greek rationalism, and Jewish and Muslim learning | The Scientific Revolution |
| Introduced the idea of innocent until proven guilty | The Roman Empire |
| When the Christian church split into Roman Catholicism and the Orthodox Church | The Byzantine Empire |
| Developed arches, domes, and vaults | The Roman Empire |
| Caused by stories of the persecution of Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land | The Crusades |
| Started by anger over the Church’s sale of indulgences | The Protestant Reformation |
| Grew out of renewed interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome | The Renaissance |
| Resulted in the deaths of almost one-third of all Europeans | The bubonic plague (Black Death) |
| Resulted partly because of the rise of the Italian city-states | The Renaissance |
| Era in which tthe telescope, microscope, barometer, and thermometer were invented | The Scientific Revolution |
| Built upon the Confucian ideas of government | Tang Dynasty |
| Opened up the civil service exams to more classes | Sung Dynasty |
| Collapse brought on the chaos that led to the spread of BuddhismHan Dynasty | Han Dynasty |
| Feudalism resulted from its decline | The Roman Empire |
| Sparked increased trade with Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean world | The Crusades |
| Time of civil war and an increase in the power of the samurai | Ashikaga shogunate |
| Eastern empire that survived for centuries after Rome fell to Germanic invaders | The Byzantine Empire |
| Describes the major religious duties of Muslim believers | The Five Pillars of Islam |
| Contained many of the rights now found in the U.S. Constitution | The Magna Carta |
| The perfected version of God’s word, according to Muslims | Qur’an |
| Written by Thomas Aquinas’ in an attempt to combine Greek and Christian thought | Summa Theologica |
| Established traditions and practices based on Muhammad’s words and actions | The Sunnah |
