The Americas
This empire emerged in present-day Mexico in the 15th Century
What is the Aztec Empire?
This was the name of the Chinese Dynasty ruled by the Mongols.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The longest road on earth was in this empire.
What is the Inca Empire?
Another name for the Eastern Roman Empire.
The city where Mohammad was born.
What is Mecca?
This is the name of the system whereby a city pays a powerful neighbor in order to avoid being conquered and receives protection as part of the empire.
What is a tributary system?
Under the Song Dynasty, this belief system was suppressed.
What is Buddhism?
The first novelist in history and the name of the book that was written.
Who is Lady Murasaki The Tale of Genji (1021)?
This is the name given to the formal splitting of the Christian church in the early middle ages.
What is the Great Schism?
The vast majority of Muslims are this sect.
What are Sunni?
He was the leader that expanded the Incan empire.
Who is Pachacuti?
The repelling of the Mongol invasion of Japan was aided by this natural event.
The largest contiguous empire in human history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The fourth Crusade resulted in the sacking of this city by Western European Crusaders.
What is Constantinople?
This event made 619 c.e. the "year of sorrows" for Mohammad.
What is the death of his first wife, Khadija?
Under this system, used by the Inca Empire, people were expected to contribute their labor for a portion of the year?
What is the mit'a system?
The Mongol Empire quickly divided into the Yuan Dynasty in China, the Chahatai in central Asia, the Golden Horde in the Asian steppe, and this Empire that represented much of Persia and the Middle East.
What is the Illkhanate?
The first international banking system was begun by this organization.
What is the Knights Templar?
This leader in Constantinople wrote a legal code of conduct that is named after him.
Who is Justinian?
This famous Christian cathedral in Constantinople (now Istanbul) was converted to a Muslim mosque after the Ottoman Turks took over the city.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
These are the three states of the Triple Alliance.
What are Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan?
These are the three "gunpowder empires."
What are the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire and the Mughal Empire?
The longest canal system in the world was in this empire.
What is Song China?
This is the word for a person who pledges fealty to another, often in exchange for land.
What is a vassal?
These are the five pillars of Islam.
What are: Faith (Shahadah); Prayer (Salat); Charity: (Zakat); Fasting Dawn to dusk during Ramadan; Pilgrimage (Hajj) The Kaaba during the 12th month?