Women played a significant religious and economic role in this location.
What is the home.
100
Western Europeans generally referred to themselves as this during the 11th to 14th centuries
What are Latins?
100
The most valuable commodity in the city of Timbuktu.
What are books?
100
Much of our knowledge of early Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese history comes from them.
Who are Chinese writers or the Chinese?
100
After the Great Schism of the Christian church, these two languages came to dominate theological writing in eastern and western Europe respectively.
What are Greek and Latin?
200
This animal, along with the alpaca, served as an Andean source of wool, meat and transportation.
What is the llama?
200
As feudalism began to decline by the thirteenth century, many European nobles were actively seeking to do this to monarchal power.
What is limiting power?
200
In India a woman's status was determined by this?
What is her male master, husband or father?
200
This Mongolian dyansty was established in China much to the chagrin of the native population. However, it ultimately led to China becoming a unified state.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
200
This Ming dynasty admiral led ships as far as East Africa?
Who is Zheng He?
300
While the Maya shared cultural traits they never achieved political unity. Instead their political world mirrored this Mediterranean civilization.
What is ancient Greece (Independent City states)?
300
The collapse of this empire led many European merchants to seek new trade routes.
What is the Mongol Empire?
300
In contrast to the Islamic empires of Western Africa, this foreign Islamic sultanate was established in India by violent conquest.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
300
This kinds of states were established by the Tang dynasty in exchange for trade advantages and strategic alliances.
What are tribute states?
300
Believing she was inspired by God, this woman led the French to victory in a decisive battle against the English in the Hundred Years War. Unfortunately she was captured and burned alive.
Who is Joan of Arc?
400
The Maya established a writing system very similar to this northeast African civilization.
Who are the Egyptians (hieroglyphics)
400
While this epidemic created labor shortages, increased wages and the destruction of feudalism it did NOT lead to a demand for democratic reform in government.
What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
400
The rise of this sub-saharan slave to the position of emperor of the Songhai Empire is an example illustrating the difference between slavery in West Africa and European slavery in the Americas.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
400
During the Kamakura shoganate this new class of persons emerged and came to dominate Japanese feudal life.
Who are samurai?
400
The classic literary achievement, Divine Comedy, written by dante was written in the vernacular and NOT in this language.
What is Latin?
500
Public life in Tenotchitlan, as with many other Amerindian cultures, was dominated by this.
What is religion?
500
Credit for reviving the "lost art" of painting is given to this Italian artist.
Who is Giotto?
500
Trade states on the Swahilli coast, Aden, Gujurat and ports on the Straights of Malacca were all involved in the lucrative trade network over this body of water.
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
The presence of these two philosophies and/or relegions, while tolerated by the Tang, eventually becamea source of conflict in China.
What are Buddhism and Confucianism?
500
This Iberian maritime power would come to dominate the spice trade in the Indian Ocean and establish ports on the west and east coast of Africa?