World Religions
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is declaring faith, fasting, charity, praying to Mecca 5x a day, and taking a pilgrimage to Mecca
From 700 to 1600, how were women treated in China?
What is women had fewer rights then men. (Foot binding, dowries, and inherit property.)
What was Timbuktu famous for?
What is salt trade and Islamic scholarship
What region was the most culturally advanced from 700 to 1200?
What is the Islamic Empire?
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
What is feudalism?
Which religion controlled the lives of people during the Middle Ages in Europe?
What is the Catholic Church
Each dynasty of China rises to a political, cultural, and economic peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven, and falls, only to be replaced by a new dynasty. This process is known as....?
What is the dynastic cycle?
Where is the Mali Empire located on a map?
What is in West Africa? South of the Sahara Dessert and by the Niger River.
How did the Islamic Empire expand their empire?
Through trade, religion, and military conquest?
The Incas did not have writing as we know it, but they kept accurate numerical records on knotted strings called
What is Quipa?
In Hinduism, what is the next life you have after dying based on?
What is Karma?
The Tang and Song dynasty were known for some great inventions and innovations during the Middle Ages? What were they?
What is printing, gunpowder, and magnetic compass.
Who went on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 and distributed so much gold on his journey that the value of gold dropped in Egypt.
What is the ruler of Mail, Mansa Musa?
Did the Islamic Empire have religious tolerance in places they conquered?
What is yes there was religious tolerance. You could practice your religion freely but you had to pay a tax if you were not Muslim.
Aztec society was built on swampy marshland. What did they build to harvest their crops?
What is Chinampas (floating gardens)?
What religion is native to Japan and considered to be an animist religion? Religions believed in nature spirits (of mountains, trees, animals, etc)
What is Shintoism?
a system of testing designed to select the most studious and learned candidates for appointment as bureaucrats in the Chinese government.
What is the civil service exam?
How was African literature and tradition passed down from 800 to 1600?
What is passing down stories from generation to generation.
Academic center for learning, research, and translation?
What is the House of Wisdom?
What impact did the Crusades have in Europe?
What is made Europe realize they were behind from the rest of the world?
What god do Buddhists believe in?
What is no god. It is a way of life (the eightfold path)
What influence did China have on places like Korea, Japan, and Vietnam?
Religion (Buddhism), written language, rice cultivation, architecture, and attempt at bureaucratic system systems.
What are the dangers of telling a single story?
What is limiting your perspective of the world around you and does not open your mind to the whole narrative?
What are examples of Islamic achievements?
What is Literature, Medicine, Algebra, Mosaics, and Knowledge?
What was the Significance to the Hundred Years War?
What was the end to the Feudal system in Europe and we see cities and guilds develop?