Sea-going Scandinavian raiders from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway who disrupted coastal areas of Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What are the vikings?
100
Eastern half of Roman Empire following the collapse of the Western half of the old empire.
What is Byzantine?
100
The religion derived from Jesus Christ based on the Bible as sacred scripture and professed by Eastern Roman Catholic and Protestant bodies.
What is Christianity?
200
Founder of the Maurya Dynasty and established the first empire in Indian subcontinent.
What is Chandra Gupta?
200
Nomadic cattle herding tribe of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Bedouin?
200
Ruler of Russian kingdom of Kiev from 980-1015 C.E. Converted kingdom to Christianity.
What is Vladimir I?
200
Originally a vassal family of Shang China possibly Turkic in origin overthrew Shang and established second historical Chinese Dynasty.
What is the Zhou Dynasty?
200
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
What Confucianism?
300
A war that ranged from 431-404 B.C.E. between Athens and Sparta for dominance of Southern Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
Most famous trading route established by pastoral nomads.
What is the Silk Road?
300
Deforestation that consists of cutting down trees and then burning them to give nutrients to the soil. The beginnings of agriculture in civilization.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
300
The Chinese Dynasties in chronological order.
What is Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han?
300
Major world religion having its origins in 610 C.E. In the Arabian Peninsula. Based on prophecy of Muhammad.
What is Islam?
400
Literally between the rivers. The Tigris-Euphrates river valleys.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Medieval state of the eastern Slavs. The early predecessor of modern Ukraine and Russia
What is Kiev'an Rus?
400
Created a 22 letter alphabet around 1300 B.C.E. and became the predecessors of Greek and Latin alphabets.
What is Phoenicians?
400
The culture associated with Greek influence as the result of Macedonian conquest.
What is the Hellenistic Period?
400
A religion of Eastern and Central Asia growing out of the teachings of Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
500
Name gave to Octavian following his defeat of Mrak Anthony and Cleopatra. First emperor of Rome.
What is Augustus Caesar?
500
The first form of writing based on wedge-like characters.
What is cuneiform?
500
The period of Western European history from the decline and fall of the Roman empire until the 15th Century.
What is Middle Ages?
500
A religion of the Indian Sub-Continent and one of its indigenous religions. Believed in multiple Gods, nirvana, and reincarnation.