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What form of Islam did the Ottomans believe and practice?
Sunni
What city did Mansa Musa make his famous pilgrimage to?
Mecca
Ivan the Great, prince of Moscow, led a successful revolt against who in 1480?
The Mongols
Which empire in the northern part of East Africa was led by dynasties of Christian kings?
Ethiopia
Who were a professional army established by the Abbasid Empire that later set up a sultanate in Egypt?
The Mamluks
Who built the famous Temple of the Sun as a monument to their religion and their king's power?
The Inca
What was the capital of Mali?
Timbuktu
What is the name of the Mongol khanate of China?
The Yuan Dynasty
Name a major civilization in southeast Africa, known for its impressive stone buildings and flourishing trade. Hint: it did much of its international trade in gold and ivory.
Which Chinese dynasty invented paper money?
The Song Dynasty
What religion did the Songhai rulers in West Africa practice?
Islam
Songhai
Which Chinese dynasty did the Mongols put an end to?
The Song
Cahokia was located next to what modern city in Missouri?
St. Louis
Which philosophy/religion did neo-Confucianism blend with?
Buddhism
Name an English monarch from the Stuart dynasty that believed in the divine right of kings.
James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II
South of the rim of Mediterranean North Africa is what desert?
The Sahara Desert
Samarkand is an example of a trade city along what famous road?
The Silk Road
Which Mesoamerican civilization had an enormous empire that ran along the west coast of South America, primarily along the Andes Mountains?
What is the mystical form of Islam called?
Sufism
What replaced the Ming Dynasty in China?
The Manchu or Qing Dynasty
The Islamic Sultanate of Malacca, in Southeast Asia, was a major player in which ocean trade network?
The Indian Ocean trade
What war between England and France contributed to the fall of feudalism, and strengthened the rise of a single monarch in each country?
The Hundred Years War
The Vijayanagara Empire in the southern half of South Asia believed in what religion?
Hindu
In what two countries did the Reconquista happen where Catholicism consolidated power against Islam?
Spain and Portugal