Art and Architecture
These tents can be quickly dismantled and loaded onto animals or carts, often use by pastoralists
What is a yurt?
This capitol of the Aztec Empire was built on Lake Texcoco with impressive engineering through Chinampas and causeways
What is Tenochtitlan?
This man was able to create a unified "nation" by demanding a high level of loyalty from his followers and promoted allies based on merit, rather than by the traditional method of advancement based on tribal ties and bloodlines.
Who is Temujin/Genghis Khan?
These grasslands are too dry for crops but support pasture animals and are common across much of the center of Eurasia.
What is the steppe?
The Inca used this device of knotted string to record things
What are Quipus?
This meso-american group carried stone for many miles for the construction of temples and for carving massive stone heads.
Who are the Olmecs?
The Inca used relay runners to speed messages along its vast network of roads, through terrace farming, along suspension rope bridges, to this capital city, from far reaches of the empire.
What is Cuzco?
In the 12th Century saw the Emperor become little more than a figure-head as this person became the real ruler of Japan.
Who is the Shogun?
This practice became widespread during the Song Dynasty in China, its purpose to signify beauty and status.
What is foot-binding?
This Meso-American civilization developed a sophisticated calendar system, an advanced mathematical system, long distance trade, and many urban centers
Who were the Maya?
This portion of land given by a lord for a warrior/knight's loyalty might contain forests, churches and towns
What is a fief?
This is the name given to the division of the four states after Chinggis' death. Each of these descendants controlled vast territories, and conquered great cities like Abbasid capital Baghdad and China's capital of Hangzhou.
What are khanates?
During the period of 794-1185 in Japan there were many women writers, including Sei Shonagon who wrote The Pillow Book and this famous author of The Tale of Genji.
Who is Lady Murasaki?
These are the wars sponsored by the papacy during the late 11th-late 13th century.
What are the crusades?
This impressive nomadic groups is known for their skill on horseback including their portable recurve bows and thumb-rings for rapid firing for archers while riding.
Who are the Mongols?
In the city-state the Aztecs named "birthplace of the gods," there were monumental pyramids, and one of the largest urban centers of its time
What was Teotihuacan?
Among the many peoples of the Americas we saw cliff dwellings built, irrigation systems developed in deserts, but these people built large earth mounds here at the largest city in North America.
What is Cahokia?
In 1095 this man called for a great Christian holy war so that the knights who had been fighting one another could direct their energies against the Muslims.
Who is Pope Urban II?
One of the main purposes for the Aztecs frequent wars was to get prisoners to use for this.
What is Religious Sacrifice?
This process is boiling maize in a solution of water increased the nutritional value when making masa from maize and lime.
What is nixtamalization?
Tenochtitlan was laid out on a grid of streets and canals, and these agricultural plots built upon reeds and mud that allowed great fertility farming into Lake Texcoco.
What are Chinampas?
These associations of artisans organized to regulate quality, quantity and price of goods produced in towns in the Middle Ages.
What are craft guilds?
The Incan Empire was one of the largest states in the world when this man arrived in 1532.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
This is the term for a warrior/knight who swears his loyalty to a more powerful individual and promises aid and military assistance
What is a vassal?
The Inca used this system to move people to do work or labor for the state.
What was the mit'a?
In France alone 80 of these were built between 1180-1270, with the same common features: flying buttresses, pointed arches, high ceilings as well as stained-glass windows along with statuary and paintings which were designed to teach illiterate people the doctrines of Christian faith through visual images
What are Gothic Cathedrals?
Less than a century after the splendid capital Nara was built, a new capital was built in Japan from which the period takes its name.
What is Heian?
The ideal of knighthood for the knights of Europe had this code of conduct.... while the samurai of Japan adhered to this code
What is Chivalry and Bushido?
Control of this trade helped Southeast Asian states grow wealthy and powerful
What are Spices?
This Empire was a "Golden Age" of India due to flourishing of art and literature, impressive mathematical achievements and a flourishing Indian Ocean trade that brought Buddhism to Southeast Asia
Who are the Gupta Empire?