Chapter 5 Flashcards

286182234	Axum	trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia	0
286182235	Animism	the belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects	1
286182236	Shintoism	a religion based in Japan, marked by worship of nature and reverence for ancestors	2
286182237	Byzantine Empire	(330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine.	3
286182238	Inca	Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco.	4
286182239	Sahara	the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa	5
286182240	Pope	the head of the Roman Catholic Church	6
286182241	Maya	Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar.	7
286182242	Justinian	Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians	8
286182243	Polynesian	these people had reached the islands of Fiji and Samoa by 1000 BCE	9
286182244	Islam	the monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran	10
286182245	Yellow Turbans	Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in China promising a Golden Age to be brought by divine magic	11