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This system organized medieval society into kings, nobles, knights, and peasants.
What is Feudalism?
This religion spread rapidly across the Middle East and North Africa in the 600s.
What is Islam?
These warriors served powerful lords in medieval Japan.
Who are the Samurai?
This long trade route connected China to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This explorer sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 while searching for a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Peasants who were legally tied to the land were called this.
What are Serfs?
This religious leader founded Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
The military ruler who held real power in medieval Japan had this title.
What is a Shogun?
This empire stretched across Asia and parts of Europe in the 1200s.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Which country invaded England with a large armada in the 1500s?
What is Spain?
This French heroine helped lead armies during the Hundred Years’ War before being executed.
Who is Joan of Arc?
The Crusades were mainly fought over control of this city.
What is Jerusalem?
This Chinese invention helped sailors navigate using Earth’s magnetic field.
What is the Compass?
This famous Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
What was the capital of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
This Italian city is often called the birthplace of the Renaissance.
What is Florence?
In 1517 this dude challenged the Catholic Church by publishing the Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This leader founded the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Kahn?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This Spanish conquistador defeated the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This political thinker wrote The Prince, explaining how rulers could gain and keep power.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
This is the name of the movement that was born from the ideas of the Reformers who sought to end church corruption in the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
These large voyages in the early 1400s showed the power of the Ming Dynasty in the Indian Ocean.
What are Zheng He’s treasure ship voyages?
This West African ruler became famous for his wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The name for the trade of unique goods from Europe/Africa/Asia to the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?