Which two religions emerged more from the margins of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations?
What is Islam and Christianity?
100
Imperial dynasty that ruled China that expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy from 206 BC to 220 AD.
What is the Han dynasty?
100
The man commissioned by Spain to search for a new trading route to Asia but in 1492 he found America instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A highly contagious and fatal disease that was originally spread by fleas.
What is the bubonic plague?
200
A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa.
What is the Sand roads?
200
Key pilgrimage center in Arabia that became the birthplace of Islam.
What is Mecca?
200
Chinese dynasty from 1368–1644 that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols, noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols.
What is the Ming dynasty?
200
Mongol leader Temujin who was given the title which means “universal ruler” that was given to to him in 1206 after he united the Mongols.
Who is Chinggis Khan?
200
Holy wars waged by Western Christendom from 1095 until the end of the Middle Ages and beyond.
What is Crusades?
300
The world’s largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 c.e., Indian Ocean commerce stretched from southern China to eastern Africa and included not only the exchange of luxury and bulk goods but also the exchange of ideas and crops.
What is the Indian Ocean trading network?
300
This is the most holy text of Islam, recording the revelations given to the prophet Muhammad.
What is the Quran?
300
Ruling dynasty of China from 618 to 907; noted for its openness to foreign cultural influences.
What is the Tang dynasty?
300
King of Germany who built a consolidated German–northern Italian state and creating what became known in time as the “Holy Roman Empire.”
Who is Otto I?
300
The five core practices required of Muslims: a profession of faith, regular prayer, charitable giving, fasting during Ramadan, and a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Pillars of Islam?
400
A fairly small-scale trade that developed in the twelfth century c.e., exporting West African slaves captured in raids across the Sahara for sale mostly as household servants in Islamic North Africa; the difficulty of travel across the desert limited the scope of this trade.
What is the trans-Saharan slave trade?
400
The Prophet of Islam
Who is Muhammad Ibn Abdullah?
400
Ruling dynasty of China from 581–618, that effectively reunited the country after several centuries of political fragmentation
What is Sui dynasty?
400
Great Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began in 1405.
Who is Zheng He?
400
Birth name of the Mongol leader better known as Chinggis Khan.
Who is Temujin?
500
Which trade route was seen as a catalyst for change for Southeast Asia and Srivijaya?
What is the Indian Ocean Trading Network?
500
Who are the teachers who that began to attract groups of disciples who were eager to learn their unique devotional practices and ways of achieving union with Allah
Who are the Sufi shaykhs?
500
Mongol dynasty that ruled China from 1271 to 1368; its name means “great beginnings."
What is the Yuan dynasty?
500
Japan’s greatest author, a woman active at the Heian court who is best known for The Tale of Genji, which she wrote around 1000 c.e.
Who is Murasaki Shikibu?
500
A poet and king of the city-state of Texcoco, which was part of the Aztec Empire.