Rome/Byzantine
This artwork innovated by the Byzantines combined small pieces of glass.
What is a mosaic?
This person was the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
This river is located near the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai and the Trans Saharan network.
What is the Niger River?
The Maya were located in this geographic feature in Central America.
What are the rainforests?
This powerful institution provided stability to Western Europeans after the fall of Rome.
What is the Catholic Church?
What is the Patriarch?
This is the language of the holy book called the Quran.
What is Arabic?
This religion spread from the Byzantines to East Africa.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
Instead of using hieroglyphic writing to keep records, Inca people used these knotted strings.
This document was signed by an English king and limited the power of monarchs.
What is the Magna Carta?
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This is the name of the city that Muslims go on a pilgrimage to during the Hajj.
What is Makkah?
This city was funded by Mansa Musa and became a center of culture and learning.
What is the city of Timbuktu?
Inca rulers built thousands of miles of these to make trade and travel more efficient along the Pacific coast and Andes mountains.
What are roads or Carpa Nan in Quechua?
This traditional Japanese religion worshipped kami and placed torii gates in front of their shrines.
What is shintoism?
These two cultures were preserved by Byzantines in their libraries.
What is Greek and Roman culture?
What is a disagreement over leadership?
This southern African city was abandoned due to overcrowding, but at it's height was known for soapstone birds and stone walls.
What is the Great Zimbabwe?
Floating island farms developed by the Aztecs to grow maize, beans and squash on Lake Texcoco.
What are chinampas?
This belief system states that life is full of suffering and to end this one must follow the Eightfold Path.
What is Buddhism?
The invasion of these groups led to the direct fall of the Western Roman Empire.
What are Germanic tribes?
What is a caliph?
This ruler was instrumental in adopting Ge-ez writing and connected Aksum to international trade along the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean.
Who is King Ezana?
The name of the militaristic Aztec empire's capital city located in an arid valley on a lake. It also the location of modern-day Mexico city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This belief system's holy books are written in Sanskrit and are called the Vedas and Upanishads.
What is Hinduism?