Sea-going Scandinavian raiders from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway who disrupted coastal areas of Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What are the vikings?
100
Eastern half of Roman Empire following the collapse of the Western half of the old empire.
What is Byzantine?
100
The religion derived from Jesus Christ based on the Bible as sacred scripture and professed by Eastern Roman Catholic and Protestant bodies.
What is Christianity?
200
Founder of the Maurya Dynasty and established the first empire in Indian subcontinent.
What is Chandra Gupta?
200
Nomadic cattle herding tribe of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Bedouin?
200
Most prominent ruler of the Byzantines, re-established some Western parts of the empire and built the Hagia Sophia.
Justinian
200
Followed the Umayadds
Abbasids
200
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
What Confucianism?
300
A war that ranged from 431-404 B.C.E. between Athens and Sparta for dominance of Southern Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
The dynasty historians attribute with the unification of China?
Qin
300
The neolithic age is mostly attributed to the discovery of what?
Fire
300
Reunified China after the devolution of the classical states, known in the book as "one of the most glorious periods in Chinese history."
Tang.
300
Major world religion having its origins in 610 C.E. In the Arabian Peninsula. Based on prophecy of Muhammad.
What is Islam?
400
Literally between the rivers. The Tigris-Euphrates river valleys.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Medieval state of the eastern Slavs. The early predecessor of modern Ukraine and Russia
What is Kiev'an Rus?
400
Created a 22 letter alphabet around 1300 B.C.E. and became the predecessors of Greek and Latin alphabets.
What is Phoenicians?
400
The culture associated with Greek influence as the result of Macedonian conquest.
What is the Hellenistic Period?
400
A religion of Eastern and Central Asia growing out of the teachings of Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
500
The two reasons for the split between Orthodox and Catholic churches.
Celibacy of priests and bread used in communion.
500
The governmental difference between the Roman Republic and Greek Democracy (in theory, not necessarily in practice).
Greece was an aristocratic democracy where all land owning males voted, Roman Republic elected senators as representatives.
500
Ruler of the Franks who would for a brief period hold the title as emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
Charlemagne
500
The period of Western European history from the decline and fall of the Roman empire until the 15th Century.
What is Middle Ages?
500
A religion of the Indian Sub-Continent and one of its indigenous religions. Believed in multiple Gods, nirvana, and reincarnation.