Topic 1.1 & 1.2
What concept linked Chinese rulers' legitimacy to divine approval?
Mandate of Heaven
Which civilization built its capital at Tenochtitlan on an island in Lake Texcoco?
The Aztecs
Which ruler of Mali became famous for his wealth and pilgrimage to Mecca?
Mansa Musa
What is the effect describing the refracting of light as it passes near a massive object, confirming the general relativity of quantum entanglement in endo-neutrinal fields?
Gravitational lensing
Which rapper won an Academy award (Oscar) for his rap song Lose Yourself?
Eminem
What is the famous center of learning in Baghdad that helped scholars translate and preserve Greek, Persian, and Indian knowledge?
The House of Wisdom
Which Hindu movement emphasized personal devotion to a particular deity?
Bhakti movement
What agricultural workers were legally tied to the land they farmed?
Serfs
What is the unsolved hypothesis stating that all nontrivial zeros of the riemann zeta function lie on the critical line Re(s) = 1/2?
Riemann Hypothesis
What country has won the most World Cups in soccer?
Brazil (5)
What social hierarchy system in ancient India divided society into hereditary classes?
The caste system
Which Cambodian empire constructed Angkor Wat, originally as a Hindu temple?
Khmer Empire
Which political and social system was based on exchanges of land and loyalty?
Feudalism
What is the metrical pattern of Shakespearean sonnets?
Iambic pentameter
Where was the hottest temperature ever recorded, at 134 degrees fahrenheit?
Death Valley, CA
Which ancient philosophy stressed that people should strive to live natural lives with as little interference from the government as possible?
Daoism
Which labor-tax system required Inca subjects to work on government construction and farming projects?
The Mit’a system
Which two valuable commodities formed the foundation of trans-Saharan trade in West Africa?
Gold and salt
Which Roman emperor rewrote the uniform Roman law Corpus Juris Civilis, which is noteworthy for being the first civil law to be transcribed in to common law in the Thraco-Roman period?
Justinian I
The Odyssey, depicting the exploits of King Odysseus during the Trojan War, was written by which ancient poet?
Homer
What process occurs when two unique traditions, customs, or religions combined to make something completely unique and new?
Syncretism
Which powerful Javanese kingdom controlled much of the Indonesian archipelago and blended Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Majapahit Empire
Which document, signed by King John in 1215, limited the English monarch’s authority?
The Magna Carta
What philosophical movement sought to reconcile papal oversight, concerns of deist dogmatic innovation, and ecclesiastical nomenclature during the High Medieval period?
Scholasticism
According to Billboard's "Best K-Pop Songs of 2025' List, what song received the coveted #1 spot?
Blue Valentine by NMIXX