China
The Mongols
India and East Asia
Europe
Byzantine Empire
100

Sui Yangdi, the second emperor of the dynasty, completed the Grand Canal, built to link the two great rivers of China, the _________________ and the _____________.

the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River).

100

Born during the 1160s, he gradually unified the Mongols. By 1206 he became known as _______________  which means strong ruler. From that time on, he devoted himself to conquest.

Genghis Khan

100

By 1200, Muslim power had reached over the entire plain of northern India, creating a new Muslim state known as ______________.

The Sultanate of Delhi

100

The Frankish kingdom was established by ________________, a strong military leader who around 500 became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity.

Clovis

100

The capital of the Byzantine empire was ____________.

Constantinople

200

The civil service examination tested a student’s grasp of ____________________ principles.

Confucian

200

In 1279  _______________ completed the conquest of the Song and established a new Chinese dynasty, the Yuan (YWAHN).

Kublai Khan

200

The heads of the noble families in Japan were called ____________

daimyo

200

The (a) ________________ involved a physical trial of some sort, such as holding a red-hot iron. 

(b) ____________ was the amount paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed.

(a) Ordeal; (b) Wergild
200

In 1054, a schism emerged between these two institutions. (Identify them).

In 1054, the pope (head of the Roman Catholic Church) and the Byzantine patriarch (head of the Eastern Orthodox Church) formally excommunicated each other—each took away the other’s rights of church membership.

300

As a result of trade, _____________ (modern-day Xi’an), with a population estimated at two million, became the wealthiest city in the world during the Tang era.

Changan

300

The Mongol empire was divided into khanates. How many khanates were there?

Four

300

Followers of ______________ see Buddhism as a way of life, not a religion that is centered on individual salvation.

Theraveda

300

____________________ defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 732.

Charles Martel

300

The Byzantine emperor ________________  took over Italy, part of Spain, North Africa, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Syria. He also created a more simplified code of laws and constructed the grand cathedral called the Hagia Sophia.

Justinian

400

The ____________, as this class was known, replaced the old landed aristocracy as the political and economic elite of Chinese society.

scholar-gentry

400

What was the khanate that ruled over Russia called?

The Khanate of the Golden Horde

400

Early Japanese people worshiped spirits, called kami, whom they believed resided in trees, rivers, streams, and mountains. They also believed that the spirits of their ancestors were present in the air around them. These beliefs evolved into a religion called _____________  (“the Sacred Way” or “the Way of the Gods”), which is still practiced today.

Shinto

400

_______________ were warriors, and they were superb shipbuilders and sailors. Their longships were the best of the period, could carry about 50 men and sail down narrow rivers inland.

Vikings

400

The official language of the Byzantine empire was ________.

Greek

500

Identify at least three inventions during the Tang and Song dynasties.

  • Woodblock printing

  • Mechanical clock

  • Porcelain improvements

  • Gunpowder (early development)

  • Herbal medicine advancements

  • Magnetic compass 

  • Early paper currency

  • Moveable type printing

  • Gunpowder weapons

  • Compass for navigation

  • Chain drive mechanism

  • Water-powered devices

  • Government-issued paper money

  • Sternpost rudder

  • Champa rice cultivation

  • Urban public works

  • Expanded civil service exams

500

The Mongols attacked Persia and then defeated the Abbasids at Baghdad in _______________ (year).

1258

500

In the early seventh century, __________, a Yamato prince, tried to unify the various clans so that the Japanese could more effectively resist an invasion by the Chinese.

Shotoku Taishi

500

To strengthen his empire, Charlemagne set up the _________________  (messengers of the lord king)—two men sent out to local districts to ensure that the counts carried out the king’s wishes.

missi dominici

500

From the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries, European Christians carried out eight military expeditions to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims. These expeditions are known as the Crusades. Which of these crusades resulted in a victory for the Europeans and which resulted in failure for them?

In the first crusade, the Europeans were able to establish four Latin kingdoms over the Holy Land, but they soon fell to the Muslims and the Europeans failed to regain the Holy Land in the remaining seven crusades.

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