China's Dynasties, and one leftover
Which Chinese dynasty was known as a golden age of stability and achievement?
The Tang Dyanasty
With their empire stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Eastern Europe, the Mongols first conquered large parts of Asia under which leader?
Genghis Khan
Which Germanic tribe emerged as the strongest following the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
What code was intended to prevent lawlessness and skirmishes between knights in Europe's feudal system?
Code of Chivalry
Which leaders battled during the Third Crusade (think of Robin Hood)?
Richard the I and Saladin
True or False? Under the Song Dynasty, farmers were able to pay their taxes with crops, rather than money.
False - the Song Dynasty allowed farmers to pay with money, rather than crops. As a result, they prospered.
Which culture had the most influence on the development of Japanese culture?
Chinese
Which king became the first Germanic ruler to convert to what is now known as Catholicism?
Clovis
In Europe's feudal system, which group was tied to the land they worked, unable to leave without permission?
Serfs
What was the purpose of the first Crusade called by Pope Urban II?
Recapture the Holy Land
Which was NOT an invention from the Tang and Song dynasties? Silk, Porcelain, Magnetic Compass, or Gunpowder
Silk
What was the name of a military leader in feudal Japan?
Shogun
What was monasticism?
Movement that played an important role in the spread of both Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.
What was scholasticism?
An attempt to form a bridge between the philosophy of Aristotle and the teachings of the Christian church.
What was the purpose of William the Conqueror's Domesday book?
Survey every town in England for tax purposes.
What is the name of the overland trade route that connected Europe and Asia? Not only were good traded, but inventions and ideas, as well.
The Silk Road
Kublai Khan
Who founded a new monastic community and set of guidelines for monasteries to follow in daily life?
Benedict of Nursia
Who was the scholastic philosopher who first established the idea of scholasticism?
Thomas Aquinas
This mass disease to social upheaval in Europe and ended the social order of the manor system.
The Black Death
What was the Great Schism?
Period when two popes argues over who was the true leader of the church.
What happened to Charlemagne's empire following the death of his son?
It was divided among his grandsons.
Charlemagne forced the Saxons to convert to what religion in an attempt to unify western Europe?
Christianity
How did the architecture of Gothic cathedrals reflect the importance of religion in medieval Europe?
It was designed to lift the gaze toward heaven and fill the mind with thoughts of God.
This put limits on the power of England's monarchy by establishing that people had rights even kings must respect.
The Magna Carta