The Crusades of Europe were first called by Pope Urban II with the stated goal of taking back this holy city.
What is Jerusalem?
100
This body-altering practice, which began among women in Song China, was deemed both aesthetically pleasing and was viewed as a status symbol.
What is foot-binding?
100
The system used by China to establish dominance over its neighbors, but was also sometimes used to show the Chinese who was really the boss.
What was the tribute system?
100
This type of currency was issues for the first time in the world by the Song dynasty in around 1000.
What is paper money?
100
First developed in China after 1040, this invention was actually not cheaper than the older woodblock printing method but eventually came to have a major influence on the world.
What is movable type?
200
Sunnis and Shi’ites split over a disagreement on who should take on this role, literally “successor” of Muhammad.
What is caliph?
200
Commerce in the Indian Ocean led to the development of Swahili city-states on the East African coast, which combined elements of Bantu and ____________ culture.
What was Arabic?
200
The political "system" between lords and vassals in medieval Europe.
What was feudalism?
200
Part of the Dar al-Islam in which Islam spread voluntarily through merchant communities.
What was West Africa? (or SE Asia)
200
This "technology", which enabled complex computations, was spread by Arabs throughout much of Eurasia.
What were Hindu/Arabic numerals?
300
The Song dynasty brought about a revival of Confucianism after this previous dynasty had adopted and encouraged the spread of Buddhism.
What is the Tang dynasty?
300
This language group had spread across much of sub-Saharan Africa by 1000 CE.
What is Bantu?
300
The Mongol leader Khubilai Khan founded this dynasty in China.
What is the Yuan dynasty?
300
Mansa Musa, who made a famous voyage to Mecca, was one of the wealthiest leaders of this African kingdom along the trans-Saharan trade routes
What is Mali?
300
The Mongol Empire established this institution of fixed routes with regular stops where messengers could eat and get fresh horses.
What is the postal relay system?
400
This branch of Christianity used Greek as its common language and did not accept the authority of the Pope.
What was the Eastern Orthodox Church? (Byzantine)
400
The renewed focus upon the human experience and the recovery of Greek and Roman texts during the European Renaissance.
What was humanism?
400
This leader of the Byzantine Empire commissioned one of the most important legal works ever written, which gathered and simplified Roman law.
Who was Justinian?
400
These associations, precursors to modern-day unions, formed in Medieval Europe in order to regulate prices and business practices within a particular trade.
What are guilds?
400
Muslim scholars developed this computational instrument that allowed observers to calculate their location on earth to determine the direction of Mecca for prayers.
What is the astrolabe?
500
Members of this mystical branch of Islam was heavily involved in missionary work and taught that individuals could experience God directly without the intercession of others.
What is Sufism?
500
The people who "saved" knowledge from the ancient Greeks, which was only rediscovered by Europeans during the High Middle Ages.
Who were Islamic scholars?
500
This Islamic dynasty ruled from Baghdad and continued as religious leaders of the Middle East until the Mongol invasion.
What is the Abbasid dynasty?
500
This Chinese explorer made seven major voyages of exploration, which brought many new items to China and displayed China’s wealth to other regions of the world.
Who was Zheng He?
500
This technology made it easier for humans to use camels as a means of transportation on the Sand and Silk Roads.