This is the book that Muslims believe is the direct word of God as revealed to Muhammad. Written sometime around 650.
What is the Quran?
100
The dynasty succeeded in ruling a united empire from their capital at Baghdad until the empire fragmented in 945.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
100
The verbally transmitted, historical accounts passed from one generation to the next.
What are oral histories?
100
A technology, first developed in China after 1040 that let Printers make individual characters from clay after firing them in a kiln, set them in an iron frame, and printed pages by pressing paper against inked type.
What is moveable type?
100
A work that serves as one of the most important legal works ever written. It preserved the core of Roman law not just for sixth century jurists, but also for all time.
What is the Justinian Corpus of Civil Law?
200
These people were, in the 400s and 500s, the highest-ranking bishops of the four major Christian church centers at Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Antioch.
What is a Patriarch?
200
The reforms introduced by Wang Anshi, a grand councilor of the Song Dynasty, implemented between 1069 to 1086.
What are the new policies?
200
The collective effort of Islamic scholars, to translate astronomy, medical, mathematical, and geography books from ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian into Arabic.
What is the Translation movement?
200
A computational instrument that functioned as one of the world's first hand-held mathematical calculators.
What is an astrolabe?
200
A type of family social-structure/government that ruled the German people during the years 481-1000.
What are war-bands?
300
The special court established by the pope to hear charges against those accused of heresy.
What is the Inquisition?
300
A grant given by the caliph to someone who promised to collect taxes from a certain region and pay the caliph a certain amount of money. Grant holders became military governors and rulers of these regions, over which the caliph had only nominal control.
What is the Iqta Grant?
300
The term for 'Erik the Red's Saga' and 'The Greenlanders' Saga,' that were sagas composed in Old Norse that recount events around the year 1000.
What are the Vinland Sagas?
300
The main vessels used by Indian Ocean traders. These boats were among the earliest and most seaworthy ships, and were made from teak or coconut planks sewn together with a cord.
What is a dhow?
300
An area where the Scandinavians retained tenuous control of much of northern and eastern England, region, and received indemnities from the conquered people there.
What is the Danelaw?
400
The main Muslim Sect that is referred to as "The Party of Ali"
Who are the Shi'ites?
400
The important aristocratic family who overthrew the Merovingian rulers in 751.
What is the Carolingian Dynasty (781-1000)?
400
The important Germanic legal concept that set the monetary value of human life. Meant to prevent an endless cycle of killing and counter-killing among feuding families.
What is a Wergeld?
400
The type of boat that was fastest mode of transport before 1000, it was engineered and used by the Vikings.
What are longboats?
400
An assembly of German free men in war bands that often gathered in assemblies to settle internal disputes or plan military campaigns.
What is the Thing (Ting)?
500
The three main gods of scandinavian religion.
Who are Thor, Odin, and Frey?
500
The slave girl who played an active role in court politics after she became the wife of the caliph Mahdi (r. 775-785), the third ruler of the Abbasid caliphate
Who is Khaizuran?
500
A Spanish courtier from Granada, Spain who Wrote The Travels, the most famous example of a travel book that described his trip to Mecca.
Who is Ibn Jubayr? (1145-1217)
500
A medium used for the scandinavians to leave only brief, written texts.
What are rune stones?
500
The best source for understanding practices of Germanic peoples that Contains a list of punishments for different crimes recorded in early sixth century. It is written in Latin.