End of Year Jeopardy

Fall of Rome/Byzantine Empire

100

This event split the Roman Empire by Religion

The Great Schism

200

This is the religion of the Byzantine Empire (old Eastern Roman Empire)

Eastern Orthodoxy 

300

These are some important landmarks of the city of Constantinople 

Hagia Sophia 

The double wall 

Hippodrome

400

This emperor of the Byzantine Empire is often referred to as 'the great' and was married to his wife Theodora 

Justinian the Great

500

These were some ways that the Ottomans invaded Constantinople 

Used cannons to break down the city walls 

Carried their boats on land around the Golden Horn chain 

Used Turkish miners to dig deep under the wall foundations 

Middle East and West Africa

100

This is why Constantinople was so important in the Medieval period

It was in the middle of the trading routes from Europe, Asia and Africa

The Medieval Walmart

200

This is how people would trade for salt and gold in West Africa 

Silent Barter 

300

This West African King spent a large majority of gold when he was taking his Hajj to Mecca 

Mansa Musa 

400

These are the five pillars of Islam 

Shahada (profession of faith) 

Salah (prayer)

Swam (fasting)

Zakat (giving to the poor)

Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) 

500

When conquering new lands, the Ottomans would take the children of Christian families and incorporate them into the empire as warriors and teach them the religion of Islam, these warriors are referred to as 

The Janissaries

Asia

100

This is the vocab term we use when describing the trading of ideas and belief systems on the silk road 

BONUS: can you tell me something else we cannot see with our eyes traded on the silk road that is bad? 

Cultural Diffusion 

Bubonic plague 

200

This is why the Mongols were so successful at territorial conquests 

Lighting attacks ~ attacking on horseback with arrows 

300

This is the name of the great Mongol Khan who unified the Mongol clans and conquered the territory under the silk road 

Genghis Khan 

400

This is a theological religion of China, which stresses the roles and responsibilities of the family dynamic (mainly used for government) 

Confucianism 

500

List the four different levels of Japanese feudalism 

Shogun

Daimyo 

Samurai

Peasant

Europe

100

List the different levels of European Feudalism 

King 

Church / Nobles 

Knights 

Peasants 

200

These three things led to the decline of Feudalism 

Bubonic Plague 

Hundred Years War 

Magna Carta 

300

Renaissance is French for 

Rebirth

400

What were some impacts of the Protestant Reformation 

The printing of more Bibles in different languages 

Increased literacy rates 

The creation of new branches of Christianity 

Religious Wars 

The creation of nation states 

Catholic church has less power 

500

This is why the discoveries about space that Copernicus and Galileo proposed were dangerous 

BONUS: can you tell me the theory that Copernicus proposed 

They opposed the Catholic Church 

Heliocentric theory 

New World and Mesoamerica

100

These are some technologies/innovations that the Mesoamerican societies created? 

accurate calendar, obsidian tools, aqueducts, messenger system, quipu, rope suspension bridges 

200

List some things that were exchanged between Europe and the New World

YOU WILL ONLY GET ALL OF YOUR POINTS IF YOU GIVE ME EXAMPLES FROM EACH SIDE

Europe ~ diseases, grapes, coffee livestock (cows, pigs, horses) 

America ~ potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, vanilla, corn 

300

List the three original settlements that the Europeans created in the New World 

BONUS: which one was unsuccessful and which one relied on the help of Native Americans? 

Plymouth 

Jamestown 

Roanoke 

400

Although the North Native Americans, Inca and Aztecs were conquered by different Europeans, the majority of these populations died because of ...

The diseases they brought over with them (smallpox) 

500

List one way that each Mesoamerican civilization farmed (Aztec, Maya, and Inca) 

Aztec - Chinampa 

Maya - Slash and burn 

Inca - Terrace farming