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For most of Europe, the period between the 1300 and 1500 was called the late Middle Ages, while Italy was already undergoing the cultural revival called this.
What is the Renaissance?
This is the codification of traditional Islamic law.
What is Sharia?
The most famous African epic, which was named after the chieftain who founded the Mali state dating from the 1300s.
What is the Sundiata?
One of the staples of the Aztecs, these were built to serve as temples similarly to the gods worshipped by the Mesoamericans who preceded them.
What are the pyramids?
The creator of the first workable and cost-effective movable-type press was designed by this German inventor.
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
What had risen the secular music form, celebrating love, chivalry, and the adventures of heroes like King Arthur, Roland, and El Cid of Spain.
What are troubadour poems?
A code Muslims must live by: to confess ones faith, to pray five times daily facing Mecca, to fast during Ramadan, to give the poor alms, and to try a pilgrimage to Mecca 1+ times.
What are the Five Pillars of Faith?
During the Song period, and again during the Ming dynasty, there was a great revival of Confucius's teachings; that reinforced China's cultural tendency towards hierarchy and obedience.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
The Aztecs believed that the sun only reappeared every morning by energization through human blood, thus, they practiced this; on a large scale.
What is human sacrifice?
In the mid-600s, this Chinese monk traveled to India to learn more about Buddhism.
Who was Xuanzang?
This caused the split of both the Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodoxy in 1054.
What is the Great Schism of 1054?
To be a Muslim, this meant you have to belong to a political party and social community.
What is Umma?
After 600 CE, a new form of Buddhism emerged from China which stressed simplicity and meditation which became very popular.
What is Chan?
The Incas constructed large cities, including the capital, Cusco, and the fortress and temple complex within called this.
What is Machu Picchu?
Who was Marco Polo?
Meant, "the conviction that to be human is something to rejoice in."
What is Humanism?
This restricted the conduct of Muslim women, who were often secluded in women's quarters and required them to wear a veil in public.
Along with The Golden Lotus about a wicked landowner, this novel by Wu Chengen was inspired by the seventh century journey of the monk Xuanzang to India.
What is the Journey to the West?
They worshipped a number of deities, chief among them was the sun god; and this, which was their largest place of worship, laid in the shape of a puma being lined with gold on the inside.
What is the Temple of the Sun?
Known as the Great Explorer of the Islamic world, they began pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325 and stayed for 30 years; from Morocco, over 70,000 miles overtime.
Who was Ibn Battuta?
States that the all European nations should be bonded together by their allegiance to the church, playing an important role in medieval Europe.
Increasingly popular in the Abbasid era, this was a mystical strain of Islam that emphasizes union with Allah by means of spiritual exercises like chanting and dancing.
What is Sufism?
As the code of chivalry did with knights, this code required samarai not just to be loyal and brave, but also culturally refined.
What is Bushido?
They relied not on writing, but on the knot-tying system called this, to keep records and accounts.
What is quipu?
The Chinese captain who took ships of the Ming navy on seven far-ranging voyages through the Indian and Pacific oceans during the early 1400s.
Who was Zheng He?