Khan You Hear Me Now?
founder of the Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan
This Italian explorer "discovered" the New World in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
the samurai were warrior elites from this country.
Japan
This plague wiped out nearly half the population of Europe in the mid-14th century
The Bubonic Plague/Black Death
ship that brought the Pilgrims to Massachusetts
The Mayflower
The Golden Horde was a northwest region of the Mongol Empire located primarily in this modern-day country. (Hint-Think BIG)
Russia
Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around Africa, directly accessing the Indian Ocean Trade Network.
Vasco da Gama
The first Tsar of Russia
Ivan IV/ Ivan the Terrible
The Opium Wars were fought in the 19th century between Great Britain and which Asian country?
China
This is the most popular pie served on Thanksgiving in the U.S.
pumpkin pie
four regions of the Mongol empire were known as these.
Khanates
the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia)
Columbian Exchange
This religion spread to Japan from Korea
Buddhism
ancient trade routes that stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean.
The Silk Road
Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday by this president in 1863
Abraham Lincoln
Chinese dynasty that replaced Mongol rule
Ming Dynasty
This military invention allowed European empires to easily overpower the native populations of colonial territories.
guns/gunpowder
This sect of Christianity is the dominant religion in Russia
Orthodox Christianity
This Islamic empire sacked Constantinople in 1453 and gained full control of the Middle East.
The Ottoman Empire
These two NFL teams host Thanksgiving games each season.
Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys
The Mongols established this dynasty in China.
The Yuan Dynasty
The first European power to participate in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Portugal
Kublai Khan and the Mongols tried and failed twice to conquer Japan due to typhoons destroying their fleet of ships. What is the Japanese word for "divine wind?"
Kamikaze
a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land, known as a fiefdom or fief, in exchange for service or labor.
Feudalism
This Native American tribe participated in the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
The Wampanoag