India, The Indian Ocean and East Asia
The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages
Pax Mongolica: The Steppe Empire of the Mongols
Climate Change and Plague in the Fourteenth Century
The Ottomans, the Mamluks, and the Ming
100
A Japanese military commander in chief.
What is a shogun?
100
A collection of practices that bound lesser lords to greater lords through land and privileges given in return for personal and military support.
What is feudalism?
100
Chinggis Khan's original name.
Who is Temujin?
100
The main species that spread the Black Plague.
What are fleas?
100
The name given to Constantinople after it was taken by the Ottomans.
What is Istanbul?
200
Hindu god of Preservation. 
Who is Vishnu?
200
One the most important cities in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
200
Top officials in the Imperial Chinese bureaucracy, selected by a series of exams on Confucian texts.
What are mandarins?
200
A type of Islam that focuses on spiritual and personal connections with Allah.
What is Sufism?
200
The name of the warlord from the Chagatai Khanate that took over a large part of Central Asia during the early 1400's.
Who is Timur the Lame?
300
The great internal waterway created by the Tang Dynasty.
What is the Grand Canal?
300
The king crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in 800.
Who is Charlemagne (Charles the Great)?
300
The Mongol group that ruled over positions of central Asia, the former lands of the Rus, and northwest Asia.
Who are the Golden Horde?
300
A period in the early fourteenth century during which global mean temperatures dropped an average of 0.6oC, resulting in droughts and decreased agricultural production.
What is the Little Ice Age?
300
The name of the enslaved soldiers who helped run the Ayyubid Empire and eventually made their own Dynasty.
What is a mamluk?
400
The victorious kingdom during the Three Kingdom period in early Korea.
Who are the Silla?
400
The Crusade in which Western Crusaders defeated Constantinople.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
400
Horse relay stations established by Chinggis Khan for long-distance communication on military campaigns which were later expanded into rest areas and supply depots.
What are yams?
400
This was increased throughout Europe during the rise of Black Plague, causing mass violence against certain groups.
What is Anti-Semitism?
400
The ethnic Chinese group that was in charge of the Ming Dynasty.
Who are the Han?
500
A branch of Mahayana Buddhism holding the all believer can be reborn into a place of salvation, the Pure Land.
What is Pure Land Buddhism?
500
The son in law of Muhammad and one of the first Islamic Caliphs.
Who is Abu Bakr?
500
The name of the English book that talked positively about Chinggis Khan around 1400.
What are the Canterbury Tales?
500
The war between the French and the English after the end of the Black Plague.
What is the Hundred Years War?
500
An early gun that was large and difficult to maneuver and required a stand to stabilize and fire.
What is an arquebus?