Islam
South/Southeast Asia
East Asia
People and Places
Miscellaneous
100

This is the holy city of Islam and the direction which Muslims point themselves when praying.


What is Mecca?

100

The ________ brought a cultural conflict to the Indian subcontinent in which Islam clashed with Hinduism.

What is Delhi Sultanate?

100

A series of rulers all from the same family.

What is a dynasty?

100

This was a Muslim-ruled region in what is now Spain, established in the eighth century C.E.

What is Al-Andulus?

100

Facilitated the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia.

What is the Silk Road?

200

Holy mystics that embrace a “popular Islam” with Hindu overlap.

Who are the Sufis?

200

Trade across this body of water was made possible by monsoon winds.

What is the Indian Ocean?

200

A fast ripening & drought resistant strain of rice from Vietnam that aided a population boom in the Tang Dynasty.

What is champa rice?

200

This word literally translates to "people of the book."

What is Dhimi?

200

The tax on non-Muslims.

What is a jizya?

300

This religious schism (split, division) stemmed from disputes over succession after the death of its founder.

What is Sunni and Shia (Shi'ite)?

300

This Cambodian temple is an example of Hindu influence on Southeast Asia.

What is Angkor Wat?

300

Acting respectful and obedient to one's parent.

What is filial piety?

300

This countries feudal system was actually run by the Shogun, not the emperor.

Who is Japan?

300

This religion/philosophy's thought challenged the caste system and had social implications in South Asia.

What is Buddhism?

400

Mohammad referred to his new belief system as Islam, meaning ________.

What is submission? submission to God acceptable.

400

Like Christianity, this religion saw monasticism as an important aspect to religious devotion.

What is Buddhism?

400

Practice of breaking foot bones to create smaller “more acceptable” feet

What is footbinding?

400

This Muslim group overthrew the Umayyad dynasty and set up a new caliphate.

Who are the Abbasids?

400

This Chinese technological advancement eventually became widely used in conquest and war.

What is gundpowder?

500

This city became the capital of the Abbasid Empire and a center of the Islamic golden age.


What is Bagdad?

500

This country saw the introduction of both Islam and Hinduism due to expanding oversea trade.

What is Indonesia?

500

Father of a philosophy that helped to curb political disorder by stressing respect for one’s superiors, a modest life for those in power, proper manners for all and eventually a cohesive bureaucracy.

Who is Confucious?

500

From 600 CE to 1450 CE, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared this common social and/or political feature because they were influenced by ______.

Who is China?

500

This Arabic term means the "house of Islam" and refers to lands under Islamic rule.

What is a caliphate?

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