China
Ancient Chinese philosopher whose ideas formed the basis for many Chinese concepts of good living and proper government.
Confucius
Aside from gold, this was the other very profitable natural resource that West African empires used for trade.
Salt
The person at the head of the Church, who was more powerful than most kings in Medieval Europe
The Pope
The founder of the religion of Islam, and initial conqueror of the Arabian peninsula.
The Prophet Muhammad
The Americas were not known to the rest of the world until this man stumbled upon them while trying to find India in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
This man was tasked with assembling a massive fleet of ships and asserting China's power in the trade networks of the Indian Ocean.
Zheng He
Maybe the wealthiest person to ever live, he was the Emperor of Mali at the height of their Gold trade.
Mansa Musa
This disease wiped out around half of Europe's population between 1346-1353.
The Black Plague
The Ancient Empire that several different Muslim Kingdoms modeled their leadership structure on, allowing them to conquer large pieces of land efficiently.
The Persian Empire
Even though Italians have since made it their own, this red fruit/vegetable is native to the Americas, and didn't exist in Europe until the 1500's!
Tomatoes
The Great Wall of China was built to keep this group out. (It didn't work and they conquered China as well as most of the Asian continent at one point.)
The Mongols
This region of North Africa has been a key part of trade and culture since 5000 BC, likely due to its strategic placement along the Nile River.
Egypt
Military campaigns called by the Pope, where multiple European kingdoms joined forces to attempt to go retake "The Holy Land" of Jerusalem.
The Crusades
They created an extremely powerful empire that started in Anatolia, the area now known as Turkey.
The Ottomans
The reason a large percentage of the native peoples in the Americas began to die off once Europeans arrived.
Disease
The dynasty of Chinese Emperors that took over once the Mongols were pushed out of power.
The Ming Dynasty
Portugal
The Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
This city was ransacked by Mongol invaders, destroying untold treasures and scholarly works from the Golden Age of Islam.
Baghdad
The weather conditions in the Americas were perfect for growing these very profitable crops, further motivating Europeans to explore and develop the lands they found.
Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton
The central concept of Taoism, often represented by a half white, half black circle, with a white dot in the black half and a black dot in the white half.
The yin and the yang
The Empire that conquered and replaced the Mali Empire
The Songhai Empire
Kings explaining that they were in power because God wanted it to be that way.
The Divine Right of Kings
An important mathematical concept invented during the Golden Age of Islam, also a class you might take at RNE.
Algebra
The lack of this livestock animal likely accounts for the slower development of agriculture/technology in the Americas, compared to the rest of the world.
Horses.