Mixed Bag
India and Islam
The Land of the Rising Sun
Notable Women
European Rulers
100
Word that defines a destroyer of images used in religious worship.
What is an iconoclast?
100
Name the two branches of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shi'a?
100
During the Heian era, this became the most powerful family clan in Japan.
Who are the Fujiwara?
100
Powerful empress who ran the Tang court during her husband Zhongzong's 5-year reign. She poisoned her husband so she could install her son and act as regent.
Who is Empress Wei?
100
Name for an impressive crown, thought to have been beaten from a nail from the Cross.
What is the Iron Crown of the Lombards?
200
Nickname of Charles Martel.
What is "The Hammer"?
200
Name of the Islamic province carved out of Hispania from the old Visigoth territory.
What is Al-Andalus?
200
Deranged young emperor who enjoyed watching dogs kill monkeys.
Who is Yozei?
200
This Empress of Constantinople orders her son Constantine VI to be blinded so that she can rule Byzantium.
Who is Irene?
200
Czechoslovakian martyred king for whom a Christmas carol is named.
Who is Wenceslas?
300
In 778, the Cantus romanus becomes a new style of church chanting and music named for which Pope?
Who is Pope Gregory the Great?
300
The last living member of this caliphate Abd Al-Rahman, becomes emir of Cordoba in 756.
Who are the Umayyads?
300
In 710 CE, this city becomes the first capital of Japan.
What is Nara?
300
Daughter of Berengar of Friuli who was married to Lambert of Spoleto as a sign of good faith between the two rulers of Italy.
Who is Gisela?
300
This beautiful jewel is engraved with the name of the Wessex king who commissioned it. What is his name?
Who is King Alfred the Great?
400
Any of the Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe.
Who are the Vikings?
400
This mosque, built in Jerusalem over the site of the destroyed Second Temple of the Jews, provided a central place of worship and pilgrimage for Islam.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
400
The position of Civil Dictator with the power of being a super-advisor to the Japanese heavenly sovereign.
What is Kampaku?
400
After giving birth to a son, Leo VI married her without the permission of the patriarch. Blamed for the Bulgarian-Byzantine war, she was sent to a convent by Romanos Lecapenus.
Who is Zoe Karbonopsina or Zoe the Black-Eyed?
400
Older son of Pippin the Younger who became ruler of the whole Frankish kingdom and founds an important European dynasty.
Who is Charles the Great or Charlemagne?
500
Name for the first Duke of Normandy who is no foot kisser.
Who is Rollo or Robert?
500
Name of the great city that was at various times protected by the Rashtrakuta, the Pratihara, and the Pala.
What is Kannauj?
500
This dynasty was formed after Aditya, son of warlord Vijayala, took advantage of fighting between the Pallava and the Pandya and defeated the Pallava.
What is the Chola dynasty?
500
Shared first name of rival love interests of Byzantine Emperor Michael III, Dekapolitissa and Ingerina.
What is Eudokia?
500
Declared war on his father Louis the Pious after a portion of his land was given to his younger half-brother.
Who is Lothair?