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This was series of religiously motivated campaigns wherein a mixture of European kingdoms attempted to capture Jerusalem.
What is a Crusade?
This leader had a reputation for brutality and controlled the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The Mexica people migrated into central Mexico and became this warlike empire, building their capital on a lake.
This Roman god was also known as Zeus (to the Greeks).
Who is Jupiter?
This religious institution provided unity (albeit imperfectly) to European kingdoms, as well as giving rulers' legitimacy and fostering education.
What is the Catholic Church?
This Islamic dynasty was very expansionist, growing their rule within India as well as what is now Spain.
This crop's appearance on the African continent enabled a higher population, greater specialization, and the growth and migration of more complex societies.
This Crusade ended in tragedy, with thousands of the participants either disappearing or being sold into slavery in northern Africa.
What is the Children's Crusade?
This Byzantine ruler fought wars of conquest on the border, and is most famous for revising and consolidating the empire's laws, as well enforcing them impartially.
Who is Justinian?
This group migrated from central Asia into the Middle-East and Asia Minor (Anatolia), conquering much land from other Islamic groups as well as the Byzantines.
Who are the Seljuq Turks?
This disease spread widely in the 1300s, in some places killing 70% of the people it infected.
What is the bubonic plague (or black plague, black death)?
Who is Lady Godiva?
This Byzantine system of labor and social organization relied on a free peasantry who would own their own land.
What is the theme system?
Under this dynasty, Islam flourished in a kind of Golden Age. It was less expansionist than the previous dynasty, and treated non-Muslims within the empire more equally.
What is the Abbasid dynasty?
This irrigation system enabled greater crop yields in marshy areas by piling up fertile soil into plateaus.
What is the chinampa system?
This document allowed people to move freely without having to pay or ask permission from royal or feudal authorities. It also gave authority for cities to rule themselves.
What is a charter?
This leader departed from Northern France and gained the throne of England by force in 1066.
Who is William the Conqueror?
This was a religion that fused elements of Islam and Hinduism.
What is Bhakti?
This king of Mali was one of the wealthiest people in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This ruler successfully captured Constantinople in 1453 and greatly expanded Ottoman Turkish rule.