Song Dynasty
This is one example of why the Song Dynasty was inegalitarian (unequal treatment toward women)?
What is (ex. footbinding)?
These are two examples of ideals in Bushido code.
What are (ex. honor, loyalty, sacrifice, discipline, etc.)?
This oral historian class preserved West African traditions and lineage stories.
What are the griots?
Both the Aztecs and Incas employed this to stabilize their empires after conquest, where they demanded food, taxes, and labor in return for protection.
What are tribute systems?
Viridian, celadon, and chartreuse are all shades of this color.
What is green?
This was the general subject matter of the civil service examinations.
What is Confucianism?
These large landholders commanded their own armies of samurai.
What are the daimyo?
Who is Mansa Musa?
This term refers to the record-keeping method of strings used by the Incas.
What are quipus?
My sister Sophie Cunningham plays for which WNBA team?
What is the Indiana Fever?
This innovation greatly increased rice yields and boosted population growth in China.
What is Champa rice?
This term refers to the system of Japanese feudalism that was centralized around a single shogun.
What is a shogunate?
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai obtained wealth through taxing this trading network in northern Africa.
What is the trans-Saharan trade route?
This capital city was the center of the Aztec Empire, which later became Mexico City.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Finish the lyric: "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide..."
What is "No escape from reality..."
Song merchants used these financial instruments to avoid transporting physical cash.
What is flying money?
This period in Japan from 794 to 1185 was known as this, and it included a cultural flourishing of haikus and The Tale of Genji.
What is the Heian period?
This describes one reason salt was so valuable in West Africa (and other places) at the time.
What is (ex. preservation, health, use as currency, etc.)?
This is one reason the Aztecs built chinampas.
What is (ex. capital is on a lake, marshy environment, limited farmland, etc.)?
These are two NFL teams who currently have 2 or fewer wins in the 2025 season.
What are (ex. Jets, Browns, Titans, Raiders)?
During the Song, this elite group’s influence grew as land ownership and Confucian learning became central to status.
What is the (scholar-) gentry?
In the Japanese religion, divine spirits known as this were found in nature.
What is kami?
This was the most significant reason for Songhai’s decline in the late 1500s.
What is an invasion from Morocco (with guns)?
The Aztecs rose to power largely due to this strategic partnership of two other city-states.
What is the Triple-Alliance?
In Monopoly, these are three properties that share a color.
What are (ex. ???)
This describes one difference between Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism.
What is Neo-Confucianism is based on elements from Buddhism and Daoism?
This was medieval Japan’s capital during much of the Heian period (before Tokugawa).
What is Kyoto?
This ruler created Songhai’s centralized bureaucracy and Islamic legal code.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
This was the name of the Aztec god of death, rebirth, and the wind, which was often depicted as a feathered serpent.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
In the game of Blackjack/21, the deal will always hit on this number and always stay on this other number. (Assuming no "soft ace" rules)
What is hit on 17 and stay on 16?