Vocabulary
In Medieval guild society, another word for "student" learning a trade (from a master).
What is apprentice?
The city the Ottoman Empire chose for its capital.
What is Constantinople?
Medieval Japan adopted this religion from China.
What is Buddhism?
The commodity that was the most important source of wealth for central African kingdoms.
What is salt?
In this ancient Meso American civilization, individuals could rise in social class through personal success.
What is Aztec?
The belief that images of religious figures are idol worship. This was one of the dividing issues of the Eastern and Western Church.
What is iconoclasm?
In medieval history, this country was a cultural link between Japan & China.
What is Korea?
The religion of the ancient West African kingdom of Ghana.
What is Animism?
This society structure, common in medieval Europe, was not in place in Italy, which allowed city-states to develop there before the rest of Europe.
What is feudalism?
In this ancient empire, the highest political & religious authorities were the same person.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The system described here: In ancient Ghana, the next king would be the son of the current king's sister.
What is matrilineal?
Known for its strategic position on the Adriatic Sea in Northeast Italy, this was the first major city-state of Italy.
What is Venice?
The name for the split in the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in multiple claims to the Papacy.
What is The Great Schism?
Settlers from this country used enslaved natives for labor in their early New World settlements.
What is Spain?
This ancient Meso American civilization developed an advanced, logical math system that enabled traders to communicate prices at market.
What is Mayan?
The route in which African slaves were transported to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
Many modern universities in Europe began as this.
What are monasteries?
The issue that divides Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
What is "how leadership should be passed down"?
The technical quality of this art medium declined from the ancient Roman period to the early Middle Ages.
What is painting?
The name of the largest ancient West African Empire.
What is the Songhai Empire?
The name for "People of the Book" in early Muslim society.
What is "dhimmis"?
The voyage of Vasco da Gama, for Portugal, achieved trade with this nation.
What is India?
One of the great treasures of Medieval Europe, an illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks sometime around 800 AD.
What is the Book of Kells?
In Medieval Europe, the people who helped establish trading territories in urban areas, set up and enforced rules for markets in their areas, and obtained charters from feudal lords to regulate trade.
What are merchant guilds?
This leader used the Church to unify German kingdoms under his own power.
Who was Charlemagne?