Rise of Islam
The main prophet of Islam.
Who is Mohammad?
The modern-day country where the Aztec Empire was located.
What is Mexico?
The French meaning of the word Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
The social class at the very top of the feudal social pyramid
Who is the King?
A major archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean near Korea.
What is Japan?
The name of a pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim must make once in their lives.
What is the Hajj?
The name of the conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
An artistic technique in which figures are represented as being accurate sizes in relation to each other and the viewer.
What is balance and proportion?
The name for a piece of land owned by a lord/lady where knights and peasants lived and worked.
What is a manor?
The name of a major canal that was expanded by Chinese dynasties throughout the Middle Ages.
What is the Grand Canal?
The century that Islam was founded in?
What is the 7th Century / 600s?
The disease that is believed to have killed Huayna Capac.
What is small pox?
A painting technique that creates realistic backgrounds that have the illusion of depth.
What is perspective?
What peasants received in exchange for the fruits of their labor.
What is land and/or protection?
Genghis Khan's birth name.
What is Temujin?
The second holiest city in Islam after Mecca.
What is Medina?
Two animals that were important in allowing the Spanish to quickly conquer the Aztecs and Inca.
What are horses and war dogs?
Two major Italian city-states that were at the center of the revival of trade with the East in the late Middle Ages (both are required for a correct answer).
What are Venice and Genoa.
The name of the king who founded the Holy Roman Empire.
Who is Charlemagne?
The name of the Chinese Dynasty that was conquered by the Mongol Empire.
What is the Song Dynasty?
The name of a famous library in medieval Baghdad.
What is the House of Wisdom?
The capital of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
The name of a famous family of patrons in medieval Florence, Italy, who supported many famous Renaissance artists including Niccolo Machiavelli.
What is the Medici Family?
A famous female French hero from the Hundred Years War who was burned at the stake.
Who is Joan of Arc?
The name for the type of government practised by the Tang Dynasty in which people are given government positions based on their social status.
What is aristocracy?