Most devastating pandemic in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.
What is the Black Death?
100
The traditional code of conduct associated with the medieval institution of knighthood.
What is chivalry?
100
A custom practiced on young girls and women for approximately one thousand years in China to make feet appear smaller.
What is foot binding?
100
Important development in currency during the Song Dynasty.
What is paper money?
200
Wealthy and vital trading locations along the Mediterranean trade routes towards the end of Europe's Middle Ages.
What are Italian city-states?
200
A series of holy wars between Muslims and Christians from 1096-1291 C.E.
What were the Crusades?
200
The process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society.
What is cultural diffusion?
200
Education was limited to upper class women only in this region.
What is Europe?
200
Song invention essential to navigation, based on an indicator that points north.
What is the magnetic compass?
300
Socio-poilitical system that differed from European feudalism in that it was less centralized and based on Confucian Law.
What is Japanese Feudalism?
300
A series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne which drew many allies into the conflict.
What is The Hundred Years War?
300
Honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Hajji?
300
The industry many European women worked in, due to a division of labor.
What is textiles?
300
Farming method used by the Inca Empire, amongst others, to adapt to rugged terrain.
What is terrace farming?
400
One of the largest Islamic empires in history, founded in Africa in 1375.
What is the Songhai Empire?
400
The capture and pillage of the Christian bastion of the Byzantine Empire by the members of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
What is the sacking of Constantinople?
400
In European feudal society, a vassal's source of income, held from his lord in exchange for services.
What are fiefs?
400
In this civilization, women were allowed to receive half the inheritance of male children.
What is Islam?
400
The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first used to make fumigators to keep away insects, pests, and evil spirits, but then became an innovation with huge global impact.
What is gunpowder?
500
Pope who received an appeal in 1094 from Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus for military assistance against the Turks in Anatolia, sparking the First Crusade.
Who is Urban II (1088-1099)?
500
An example of the highly developed, complex urban centers of Aztec Civilization.
What is Tenochtitlan?
500
The right, by law or custom, of the firstborn son to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings.
What is primogeniture?
500
Veiling or seclusion of women in India.
What is purdah?
500
Islamic tool used to find longitude and lattitude by using sun and star.