Ancient Rome
This form of government, where citizens elect representatives to vote on laws, replaced the Roman monarchy in 509 BCE.
What is a Republic?
This powerful religious institution held supreme cultural, political, and spiritual authority across Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This strict, unwritten code of honor governed the lives of the Japanese warrior class.
What is Bushido?
This term refers to the belief in, and worship of, a single, all-powerful god.
What is Monotheism?
This famous Incan architectural marvel and citadel sits high up in the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This 200-year period of relative stability and expansion began with the reign of Augustus and ended with Marcus Aurelius.
What is the Pax Romana?
This economic system organized the land and labor on a self-sufficient rural estate owned by a lord.
What is the Manor System?
In the Japanese feudal pyramid, this military dictator held the supreme real political and military power, while the Emperor was merely a figurehead.
Who is the Shogun?
The foundational sacred texts of this religion include the Torah and the Talmud.
What is Judaism?
This fierce, militaristic civilization established its capital at Tenochtitlán on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Who are the Aztecs?
The famous Roman stadium where crowds watched chariot races and gladiator combat?
What is the Colosseum?
This devastating pandemic swept through Europe in the mid-1300s, wiping out a massive portion of the population.
What is the Bubonic Plague (or Black Death)?
These were the wealthy landowners and noble lords who commanded private armies of warriors.
Who are the Daimyo?
Followers of this major world religion pray five times a day facing Mecca and follow the Five Pillars.
What is Islam?
This Mesoamerican civilization is renowned for its advanced astronomical calendars, mathematics, and step-pyramids in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Who are the Maya?
These were the wealthy, landholding upper class who held most of the power in the early Roman Republic.
Who are the Patricians?
This famous king of the Franks was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day in 800 CE.
Who is Charlemagne?
This indigenous spiritual tradition of Japan centers on the veneration of nature and spirits called kami.
What is Shinto?
The concept of a cycle of rebirth, which is a core belief in both Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is reincarnation?
This agricultural technique was heavily utilized by the Inca to grow crops on steep, mountainous terrain.
What is Terrace Farming?
This Roman Emperor divided the massive empire into Eastern and Western halves in an attempt to make it easier to govern.
Who is Diocletian?
This historic 1215 document limited the absolute power of the English king and established basic legal rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
This period is considered to be the Golden Age of Japan.
According to Buddhists, all of life is based on this.
What is suffering?
This expansive civilization built a highly complex network of paved roads and suspension bridges across the Andes to connect their empire.
Who are the Incas?