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100
This rapid-ripening rice variety, introduced from Vietnam, allowed multiple harvests per year and fueled population growth in Song China.
What is Champa Rice?
100
Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan sacked Baghdad and executed the last caliph of this empire.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
100
This empire, established in northern India in 1206, imposed Muslim rule over a largely Hindu population.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
100
This ruler is famous for his 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca, during which he distributed so much gold that he caused inflation in Egypt.
Who is Mansa Musa?
100
This Mesoamerican civilization built its capital city, Tenochtitlan, on an island in Lake Texcoco.
Who are the Aztecs?
100
This decentralized political and social system, based on land grants exchanged for military service and loyalty, structured medieval European society.
What is feudalism?
100
This is Spanish for "library."
What is biblioteca?
100
What is Sweden?
200
This practice of tightly wrapping young girls' feet to keep them small became a marker of elite social status in Song China.
What is footbinding?
200
This term refers to Sufi religious brotherhoods, or orders, built around the teachings of a spiritual master, which helped spread Islam through West Africa and South Asia.
What is Sufism?
200
This rigid social hierarchy, reinforced by Hindu religious belief, divided South Asian society into ranked hereditary groups.
What is the caste system?
200
This West African city, located along the Niger River, grew into a major center of trans-Saharan trade and Islamic scholarship, home to the Sankore mosque and university.
What is Timbuktu?
200
This Andean civilization built an extensive mountain road system and used a knotted-string device called the quipu to keep records.
Who are the Inca?
200
This is one social consequence of the Black Death.
What is (ex. empowered peasants, decline of feudalism, etc.)?
200
6 - (3 x 7) + 3(18/2) + 1 = what
What is 13?
200
These are two Taylor Swift songs from her latest album.
What are (???)
400
This is one of the central tenets of Neo-Confucianism.
What is (ex. filial piety, live in social harmony, obey laws, value education)?
400
This branch of Islam developed from a dispute over rightful succession after Muhammad's death and is the minority branch alongside Sunni Islam.
What is Shia Islam?
400
This region on India's northwestern coast became one of the Indian Ocean's most important trading hubs, home to wealthy Muslim merchant communities linking East Africa, Arabia, and Southeast Asia.
What is Gujarat?
400
These West African city-states, including Kano and Katsina, thrived as independent trading and manufacturing centers along trans-Saharan routes rather than uniting into a single empire.
What are the Hausa city states?
400
This Aztec practice of demanding goods, food, and captives from conquered peoples helped fund the empire and supply victims for religious rituals.
What is the tribute system?
400
This system legally bound peasants to the land and required them to labor for a lord in exchange for protection and the right to farm.
What is serfdom?
400
These are all the planets in order from closest to the sun to furthest.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto?
400
These are the names of all my Pokemon plushies.
What are Chansey, Snorlax, Gengar, Charizard, Pikachu, Clefairy, and Vulpix?
600
This form of government, in which a warrior aristocracy held real power while an emperor kept symbolic authority, developed in Japan during this era.
What is the shogunate?
600
This scholar and traveler from Dar al-Islam wrote the Rihla, an extensive account of his decades-long journeys across Afro-Eurasia.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
600
This Buddhist maritime empire, based on the island of Sumatra, grew wealthy by controlling trade through the Strait of Malacca.
What is Srivijaya?
600
This large stone structure complex in southeastern Africa was the political and religious center of a wealthy state built on cattle herding and gold trade.
What is Great Zimbabwe
600
This Inca labor system required communities to contribute work on state projects, such as roads and terraces, in place of paying taxes in goods.
What is mit'a?
600
This self-sufficient economic system, organized around a lord's estate that included farmland, a village, and a manor house, structured rural life in medieval Europe.
What is manorialism?
600
This Austrian neurologist founded psychoanalysis and developed theories about the unconscious mind, including concepts like the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
600
These are the names of two animes that have over 1000 episodes each.
What are (ex. One Piece, Pokemon, Doraemon, Detective Conan, etc.)?
800
This class of highly educated bureaucrats, chosen through the civil service examination system, dominated Song China's government.
What is the scholar-gentry (or just gentry)?
800
This navigational instrument, refined by Muslim astronomers and sailors, allowed navigators to determine latitude by measuring the angle of stars.
What is the astrolabe?
800
This tax was required of non-Muslims living under Muslim rule in states such as the Delhi Sultanate.
What is the jizya tax?
800
This organizational method for crossing the Sahara, with merchants pooling camels, guides, and guards into large groups, made the gold-salt trade, and the wealth of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, possible.
What are caravans?
800
This Aztec agricultural technique involved building artificial islands in the shallows of a lake to expand farmland near the capital.
What are chinampas?
800
This 1215 document, forced on King John of England by his nobles, limited the power of the monarchy and laid groundwork for constitutional government.
What is the Magna Carta?
800
In the sentence, "Lebron will be remembered as the Greatest of all Time," the "as" is this grammatical term.
What is a preposition?
800
These are two movies or TV shows in which the protagonist becomes the antagonist.
What are (???)
1000
Song China's highly commercialized economy relied on increased minting of coins made of this, alongside the world's first paper currency called flying money.
What is copper?
1000
This library and research institution in Baghdad became a major center for translating and preserving Greek, Persian, and Indian texts.
What is the House of Wisdom?
1000
This Southeast Asian empire, centered on the Khmer capital of Angkor, built an extensive irrigation network to support wet-rice agriculture.
What is the Khmer Empire?
1000
This West African empire, predecessor to Mali, controlled trans-Saharan trade before declining in the 11th–12th centuries.
What is Ghana?
1000
This confederation of three city-states — Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan — formed the political foundation of the Aztec Empire.
What is the Triple Alliance?
1000
This intellectual movement, built on the recovery of Greek and Roman texts (many preserved and transmitted by Muslim scholars), gave rise to Europe's first universities.
What is Scholasticism?
1000
This radical abolitionist led a failed 1859 raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to spark a slave uprising; he was captured and executed for treason.
Who is John Brown?
1000
This is the solo musical artist with the most albums sold of all time.
Who is Michael Jackson (I'll also take Elvis)?