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).
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
By 1200, Muslim power had reached over the entire plain of northern India, creating a new Muslim state known as ______________.
The Sultanate of Delhi
The Frankish kingdom was established by ________________, a strong military leader who around 500 became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity.
Clovis
The capital of the Byzantine empire was ____________.
Constantinople
The civil service examination tested a student’s grasp of ____________________ principles.
Confucian
In 1279 _______________ completed the conquest of the Song and established a new Chinese dynasty, the Yuan (YWAHN).
Kublai Khan
The heads of the noble families in Japan were called ____________
daimyo
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.
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.
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
The Mongol empire was divided into khanates. How many khanates were there?
Four
Followers of ______________ see Buddhism as a way of life, not a religion that is centered on individual salvation.
Theraveda
____________________ defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 732.
Charles Martel
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
The ____________, as this class was known, replaced the old landed aristocracy as the political and economic elite of Chinese society.
scholar-gentry
What was the khanate that ruled over Russia called?
The Khanate of the Golden Horde
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
_______________ 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
The official language of the Byzantine empire was ________.
Greek
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
The Mongols attacked Persia and then defeated the Abbasids at Baghdad in _______________ (year).
1258
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
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
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.