What was the importance of griots in African Society?
They maintained the oral history of their people
The two most important rivers in China were what?
Yellow and the Yangtze
These warriors followed the Bushido and protected Japan
Samurai
What was the dominant form of social class in Medieval Europe?
Feudalism
What was the Renaissance?
a revival of interest in classical art, learning, and literature
What is a group of traveling merchants and animals called?
caravan
trade route that had a major impact on the Chinese economy
Silk Road
Japan is a chain of around 4000 islands called a what?
Archipelago
What religious leader was the most powerful person in Medieval Europe?
Pope
This country is know to be the home/beginning of the Renaissance
Italy
What is the holy book of Islam?
Quran
Which Philosophy is closely associated with the Yin and Yang symbol?
Taoism
Nature spirits in Shintoism are called what?
Kami
These were a series of Holy-Wars fought to take back the holy land of Jerusalem.
The Crusades
Who nailed his 95 Theses to the Church demanding reformation?
Martin Luther
What were the three main empires in africa?
Mali, Ghana, Songhai
The invention of this directional tool in China made traveling much easier.
Compass
What type of theatre is native to Japan?
Noh Theater
The Great Schism of 1054 divided Christianity into what two sects?
Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity
What is this painting?
Mona Lisa
Who were the first Medieval Europeans to begin buying and selling slaves in Africa?
Portuguese
What founder, better known as the Buddha, was a young prince who set out on his own journey to find enlightenment.
Siddhartha Gautama
Below the Emperor in the Japanese Feudal Pyramid is the ______ who is a powerful military leader
Shogun
This leader of the Anglo-Saxons was defeated by William The Conqueror in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings
Harold Godwinson
Name the four most famous Renaissance Painters
Donatello, Michelangelo, Da vinci, Rafael