Medieval Asia
This alphabet, created during the Joseon Dynasty, is the writing system still used in Korea today.
What is Hangul?
This was a major Mesoamerican empire in the Valley of Mexico which was constituted principally by the cities of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
Aztec Empire/ Excan Tlahtoloyan/ Triple Alliance
Who were the previous and who is the current chair of the UCR History Department?
Who are Dr. Steven Hackel and Dr. David Biggs?
This Florentine author is best known for writing a political treatise that shaped our modern view of Political Philosophy and Science
Who was Niccolò Machiavelli
This global exchange of crops, animals, and foods after permanently transformed diets across Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange
The examination system, based on Confucian texts, helped create a merit-based bureaucracy in imperial China.
What is the civil service examination system?
This Andean South American Empire is famous for being one of the largest empires of the world in the early 16th century, having mountain terrace farms and using string as a means of communication and record keeping
Inca Empire/ Tawantinsuyu/ Realm of Four Parts
What is the name of UCR’s official undergraduate journal, published since 1980, which will accept publications during Spring quarter?
What is Cornerstone Journal?
The Astronomer/Physicist who is credited as the Father of Observational Astronomy, and was confined to house arrest after championing Heliocentrism and ridiculing the Church
Who was Galileo Galilei
This powdered green tea, introduced to Japan from China and later became central to Zen Buddhist tea ceremonies
What is matcha
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, known for unifying Japan after a long period of civil war are known under this title
Who are the Three Unifiers of Japan
This society in the Guatemalan highlands was formed of a network of kingdoms, perhaps most famous for their highly sophisticated mathematics, astronomy, and calendars
The Maya
Anthea M. Hartig is a UCR History Alumni who now serves as the director of which Smithsonian Museum
What is the Smithsonian Museum
This influential device significantly improved the speed at which texts were produced, allowing for the faster spread of ideas. (Bonus Points are available for naming its inventor)
What is the Printing Press? Bonus: Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
In colonial New England, this creature was so abundant that it was fed to prisoners, servants, and enslaved people, and laws were even passed to limit how often it could be served.
What is lobster?
The warrior class of the samurai dominated Japanese society during the feudal era and followed this strict code
What is bushido?
This Great Lakes confederation was formed between six groups of Iroquoian speakers: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. It is said their Great Law of Peace influenced the U.S. Constitution
Iroquois/ Haudenosaunee Confederacy
This UCR History Department lecture series, named for a civil rights–era historian, was established to examine race, power, and historical responsibility.
What is the Sterling Stuckey Lecture Series?
This marking implement was overhauled by Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti to stop it from rolling away by giving it an oval shape in order to help Carpenters with their job
What is the Pencil?
This Southeast Asian kingdom, located in present-day Vietnam, introduced a fast-ripening rice variety to China during the Song Dynasty, greatly increasing agricultural productivity.
What is the Champa Kingdom
This ancient Chinese legal and administrative system emphasized strict laws and harsh punishments, and was used by the Qin dynasty to consolidate power.
What is Legalism?
This native society from the Four Corners region of the US Southwest is well known for their stone pueblos, large towns built in the side of cliffs!
Ancestral Puebloans/Anasazi
Arch Getty was a member of UCR’s History Faculty from 1980-2000, before moving to UCLA. He is remembered for his heavy contributions and starting up the “Revisionist School” in what area of history?
What is Soviet History/Stalinism?
Championed by Francis Petrarch, this ideology that heavily emphasized the importance of humanity through study of Classical history.
What is Humanism
Residue analysis on ancient pottery from Jiahu, China, suggests this mixed fermented beverage made from rice, honey, and fruit existed as early as 7000 BCE.
What is rice wine? (Alcohol)