Africa, 13th-16th centuries
This queen of modern-day Angola used her attendant as a chair when European officials refused to provide a seat for her.
Who is "Queen Nzinga of Ndongo?"
This dynasty in China saw the construction of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, as well as new forms of torture.
What is the "Ming Dynasty?"
This intellectual movement was characterized by an emphasis on individual agency, human rationality, and a turn to classical texts.
What is "humanism?"
This is the most famous citadel and archaeological site of the Inca Civilization.
What is "Machu Picchu?"
This is the name for the writing and study of the historical process.
What is "historiography?"
Amina was queen of this state.
What is Zazzau?
This person was the founder of the Mughal Empire.
Who is Babur?
The Treaty of Westphalia was completed in this year.
What is 1648?
This was the name of a record-keeping system based on tying knots.
What is a "quipu?"
What is "inquiry?"
Ndongo was invaded and many of her people enslaved by this European state.
What is Portugal?
This was the name of the female samurai class in Medieval Japan.
What are the "Onna-musha?"
This French-Italian author is often credited as writing some of the earliest feminist literature.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
The Haudenosaunee employed this type of treaty for establishing peace with the Dutch colonizers in 1613.
What is a "Two-Row Wampum?"
This invention was created by several peoples at various times around the 15th century which made producing books much easier.
What is "moveable type print?"
Mansa Musa went on a pilgrimage with an entourage and much wealth to this place in 1324.
What is Mecca?
Women in medieval China and Japan were supposed to adhere to this principle of submission.
What are the "Three Subordinates?"
This French theologian was a driver of the Protestant Reformation in Western Europe who spawned a branch of Christianity named after him.
Who is "Jean Calvin?"
This is the name of the feathered serpent deity in Aztec mythology.
What is the Quetzalcoatl?
What is "classicism?"
Mansa Musa is depicted as the centre figure in this world map, considered the most important medieval map.
What is the Catalan Atlas?
Babur defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi during this 1526 battle.
What is "the Battle of Panipat?"
This was the richest city-state in Europe due to their trade connections with the Ottoman Empire, making it the centre of the Renaissance.
What is Venice?
This was the name of the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
What do we call the process by which state leaders gain control over and keep their territory?
What is "consolidation of power?"