What is the earliest known organized religion dating back some 4000 years?
Hinduism
What does animism mean?
That nature is alive with gods/spirits/forces
What does Dar al-Islam mean?
House of Islam, or "everywhere Islam is"
What was the worst pandemic in world history?
The Black Death/Bubonic Plague
Akbar the Great was the leader of which Indian empire?
The Mughal
What does Buddha mean?
Enlightened One
What does polytheism mean?
The belief in many gods
What happened to the Abbasid caliphate in 1258 AD/CE?
Baghdad was sacked by the Mongols
What is the socio-economic system where workers are bound to the land (or manor) to serve as agricultural laborers for landowners?
feudalism/manorialism
Who was the most famous Mongol ruler of China and host of the European explorer Marco Polo?
Kublai Khan
What does Mahayana mean?
Great Vehicle
What is the belief in one god called?
Monotheism
What is the name of the leader of the medieval Turks among the Seljuks and the Ottomans?
Sultan
What did Johannes Gutenberg invent in 1440?
The Printing Press
Name a great African empire that was also Christian
The Ethiopian Empire
What does Theravada mean?
Way of the Elders
What does the word gospel mean?
Good news
What is Islamic mysticism called?
Sufism
What is the economic system based on the private ownership over the means of production?
Capitalism
Who wrote the Analects?
Confucius
Which philosophy became dominant in the Song dynasty?
Confucianism/Neo-Confucianism
What does the word Islam mean?
Submission
Which form of Islam stresses that leaders descend from the family of Muhammad?
Shia
Where is Karl Marx from?
Germany
What is the last Chinese dynasty?
Qing/Manchu