East Asia
Dar al-Islam
Africa
India
Americas
Europe
Miscellaneous
100
Chinese dynasties maintain their power through this concept
Mandate of Heaven
100
Islam spreads far after the death of this man in 632
Muhammad
100
Keepers of oral history throughout Africa are known as
Griots
100
Buddhism starts not as a new religion, but a series of reforms to this religion.
Hinduism
100
This group ruled central Mexico through force, fear, and intimidation
Aztecs
100
Europe in the middle ages operates under this relatively decentralized power structure
Feudalism
100
John Coltrane played this instrument
Saxophone
200
Aristocratic families in the Song Dynasty began this process with women, a signifier of beauty and financial comfort
foot binding
200
Muhammad told his followers to do this to learn from other cultures and spread the word of Islam.
"Go in quest of knowledge even unto China"
200
The story of the rise of this Malian ruler is in part inspiration for the story of the Lion King
Sundiata
200
One of the greatest Indian emperors is this legendary Mauryan leader who converted to Buddhism and expanded the empire's borders.
Ashoka
200
This city of 25,000 was built around large earthen mounds near a major river in the American midwest
Cahokia
200
European agriculture is helped by the introduction of new technologies like heavier plows and this invention which utilized a natural source of energy.
Windmill
200
Leaves are green because of this process
Photosynthesis
300
The top of China's social and class structure was this new group that displaced the power of the old aristocracy
Scholar gentry
300
In places like Baghdad and later in Timbuktu Islamic scholars have a golden age of discovery and research in these fields (name two)
Astronomy, law, loic, ethics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine
300
Early African social structures and networks built around this
Kin/Family
300
Hinduism is built on a class system that one can only move up when they are reincarnated after maintaining a good balance of karma in relation to their class's dharma (duty).
Caste
300
The Mayan's most significant city was this place on the Yucatan peninsula.
Chichen Itza
300
Southern Europe was a battleground between these two religious groups during the middle ages.
Muslims and Christians
300
Whales share a common ancestor with this woodland creature
wolves
400
The Qing emperor built an army of these in his tomb.
terra cotta soldiers
400
In this era, Muslim women enjoyed more freedoms than Christian or Jewish women, some of these freedoms included (name one)
Dowries paid to wife instead of her father, inherit and retain property after marriage, remarry after death of husband, cash settlement after divorce, practice birth control, testify in court
400
This language develops along the East African coast because of international trade
Swahili
400
Indian mathematicians arrived at the concept of the number zero through this Hindu practice's goal of a clear mind.
Meditation
400
Incans chewed this leaf to deal with the effects of living miles above sea level in the Andes mountains.
Coca leaf
400
The Crusades were fought not only for religious reasons but for these as well (name two)
Give unemployed peasants something to do, divert the ambitions of restless nobles, give merchants direct access to Asian goods from the Silk Road
400
This adorable creature is good eatin' in the Andes mountains, often sold grilled on a stick by street vendors.
Guinea pig
500
Chinese inventions during the Song and Tang dynasty include (name two)
paper, woodblock printing, gunpowder, air conditioning, paper money, magnetic compass, boat rudders
500
Al-Andalus was the name of the Islamic kingdom in this European region
Spain/Iberian peninsula
500
This medieval African ruin, the second biggest structure in Africa behind the Great Pyramid, gets its name from the Shona language term for "stone house"
Great Zimbabwe
500
Buddhism fades in India with the arrival of this new religion.
Islam
500
Unlike the Maya, the Aztecs and Incan empires had this in common.
Power centralized in an emperor
500
The mostly fictional posthumous autobiography of this man spurred interest in Asian culture and goods in Europe.
Marco Polo
500
This American president signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965
Lyndon Johnson
600
Buddhism in China arrives along this trade route
Silk Road
600
Libraries and universities in Muslim countries held knowledge and writings that would spur this later European intellectual and artistic movement
The Renaissance
600
The Malian empire straddled these two geographic regions in Africa
Sahara and the Sahel
600
This empire is formed as a response to the looming threat of invasion from Persians and Alexander the Great.
Mauryan empire
600
The Incan empire grew quickly because of its use of this system of labor as a tax.
M'ita
600
Anti-semitism in the Iberian peninsula is stoked and manipulated by this event that starts at the end of the reconquista
Spanish Inquisition!
600
How old is Mr. Given?
43