East Asia
Prior to the Song, this imperial dynasty collapsed into multiple warring states.
What is the Tang?
A term referring to Islam's universal spiritual and political ruler.
What is a caliph?
This state united to protect Hinduism after Islam's arrival in South Asia.
What is the Vijayanagara Empire?
The only domesticated pack animal indigenous to the Americas.
What is the llama?
A system in which nobles own land worked by serfs.
What is feudalism?
China's sinocentric name for itself.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
The House of Wisdom was located here.
What is Baghdad?
This sultanate established itself it Northwest India.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
This civilization is named for its stone dwellings constructed by rulers trading in the Indian Ocean.
William the Conqueror invaded England from this region of France.
What is Normandy?
Unlike in Song China, Japan was politically controlled by this group.
Who are the Daimyo?
Between 1200 - 1450, this area was "reconquered" by Christians.
What is Al-Andalus (Spain)?
Muslim traders reached Java and Sumatra in search of this trade item.
What are spices?
This West African sultan became the wealthiest man in history thanks to Mali's abundant gold mines.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This document was designed to limit the power of John Lackland.
What is the Magna Carta?
The Civil Service Exam and Imperial Bureaucracy were based on the Neo-Confucian belief in this principle.
What is meritocracy?
This term refers to the tax paid by infidels living under Muslim sultans.
What is the jizya?
This strait allows for ocean passage between India & China.
What is the Malacca Strait?
This was the capital of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The Holy Roman Empire roughly corresponds with this modern country.
What is Germany?
Who is Marco Polo?
Sultanates such as the Egyptian Mamluks and the Ottomans were descended from this Central Asian cultural group.
Who are the Turkic peoples?
This was the tallest structure in South Asia when it was constructed by the Delhi sultans.
What is the Qutub Minar?
This is the peninsula on which the Mayan civilization was centered.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
Constantinople was sacked by Crusaders in 1205 under the command of this city.
What is Venice?