East Asia
China's guiding philosophy which states that when everyone performs the duty of their place, society will flourish.
What is Confucianism?
A phrase meaning "the house of Islam"
The primary classification system for South Asia's social structure, based on Hindu beliefs.
What is the Caste System?
A networks of trade routes across North Africa, primarily trading gold and salt.
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Network?
A system of economic and political relations between landlords and their personal laborers.
What is Manorialism?
A fast-ripening and draught resistant strain of rice from Vietnam.
What is Champa Rice?
A branch of Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ritualism, asceticism and esotericism.
What is Sufism?
A religion whose beliefs surround the idea that suffering is inherent in life but through meditation one can achieve enlightenment.
The empire which replaced Ghana in the 12th century, and was home to the famed Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
A system of laws based on scripture that all Christians were required to follow.
What is Canon Law?
A means for young males in China to potentially enter the new scholarly class through a series of tests.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
Principal Muslim sultanate in North India from the 13th to the 16th century.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
A movement within Hinduism which focuses on having a direct, emotional connection with one deity.
What is the Bhakti movement?
Storytellers and history keepers for Sub-Saharan Africa societies.
Who are Griots?
A school of philosophical thought which encouraged focus on the self rather than on God.
What is Humanism?
A virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors.
What is Filial Piety?
Enslaved people in an Islamic state, frequently of Turkish descent from Central Asia.
What is a Mamluk?
A primarily Buddhist, sea-based empire that gained control over the entire Indonesian Archipelago.
Who are the Majapahit?
A 30 ft tall, 15 ft thick brick wall surrounding the capital city of Zimbabwe.
What is the Great Zimbabwe?
What is Primogeniture?
A set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made more goods than they could sell using community-based production and simple equipment.
What is proto-industrialization?
A large private library belonging to the Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age which hosted a plethora of academic breakthroughs.
What was the Baghdad House of Wisdom?
A primarily Hindu South Asian empire with significant Muslim influence, whose name literally means "the victorious city".
What was the Vijayanagar Empire?
A serious of revolts mounted by enslaved East Africans working on Arabian sugar plantations between 869 and 883.
What was the Zanj Rebellion?
A series of battles that took place between 1337 and 1453 between the rival monarchies of England and France.
What was the Hundred Years War?