East Africa
The Eastern part of Africa was connected to the Indian Ocean trade network. It was known as the _____ Coast, named for the language that the traders spoke there, which was a mixture of Bantu and Arabic.
Hint: Starts with S
What is Swahili?
Which branch of Islam has the least adherents?
What is Shia Islam?
What is the Russian word for emperor?
What is Czar or Tsar?
The Classical Civilizations in India are the Mauryan Empire and the Gupta Empire. The Emperor Ashoka, who converted to Buddhism and spread law and order, belongs to which empire?
What was the Mauryan empire?
What is the political, social, and economic system of obligations that emerged in Europe after the fall of Rome?
What was the Feudal System?
Which civilization (now a modern-day country) was known as being the last-remaining stronghold of Christianity in East Africa?
What is Ethiopia?
Which Islamic dynasty experienced a golden age, with its great cultural center and capital located in Baghdad?
Hint: it was the last time Islam was unified
What is the Abbasid empire?
By the mid-1500s, who had centralized power over the entire Russian sphere, ruling ruthlessly and using the secret police against his own nobles?
(Hint: his name isn’t “the Great”)
Who was Ivan the Terrible?
Gupta mathematicians developed the concepts of pi and zero. They also devised a decimal system that used the numerals 1-9; this system went to the Arabs and became known as what?
(Hint: the name of this mathematical concept is in the question)
What is the Arabic Numeral system?
Who invented the printing press?
Who was Johannes Gutenberg
From 1200 to 1450, many societies in Africa were matrilineal and matriarchal. This means that ancestry and a family named are passed down to the next generation from whom?
What is The Mother?
The Islamic empire grew rapidly once it was established. This group, known as the Islamic mystics, were effective missionaries. They converted large numbers of people it Islam by stressing a personal relationship with Allah.
Hint: Starts with S and is not a main branch of Islam
Who are the Sufis?
Peter the Great’s reforms in the early 1700s were an attempt to do what to Russia? He brought in hundreds of European engineers, scientists, architects, and artisans to make this process a reality.
What is to Westernize?
For 300 years, starting in 1206, Islam spread throughout much of Northern India, largely due to the creation of what new government, so named because their leader was a sultan?
What was the Delhi Sultanate?
In the mid-800s CE, Emperor Wuzong started to persecute what religion in China, destroying thousands of monasteries and reducing the religions influence there?
What was Buddhism?
Great _____________ was a thriving city located in Eastern Africa. It was a trading empire and had a great location between Africa’s gold mines and Indian Ocean ports that made it wealthy and powerful. Hint: It is the name of a modern day country in the southeast region of Africa.
What is Zimbabwe?
In 1450, Islam spread from modern-day Turkey, to Iran, and all the way into northern India. These land-based empires were known as what, named after the product used to create them?
what are the Gunpowder Empires?
The Time of the Troubles is the chaotic time in Russia when feudal lords were fighting over who should take control after the death of Ivan IV. Which dynasty won? They ruled until 1917 and were the last family that ruled Russia before the Communist Revolutions.
(Hint: starts with R)
Who were the Romanovs?
Babur, the creator of the Mughal Empire in India, was very much Muslim, but he also claimed descent from what famous conqueror?
Who was Genghis Khan?
What is the name of the alliance, established in 1358, that controlled trade throughout much of Northern Europe?
(Hint: It’s a League)
What was the Hanseatic League?
Which famous Ming admiral landed in East Africa, creating a diplomatic tie between this region and China, as well as bringing the first giraffe to China?
Who is Zheng He (Jung Ho)
The First Crusade began in what year, bringing the Middle East into significant conflict/contact with Europe for the first time since the fall of Rome?
What was 1096 CE?
The Cossacks were a nomadic, Eastern slavic group that lived on the outskirts of the Russian empire. They were used by the Empire for their military prowess, and famously revolted against the Empire several times, most notably during Catherine the Great’s reign. Most Cossacks came from what modern-day country?
(Hint: It’s not Russia but close by)
What is Ukraine?
Who dominated trade in the Indian Ocean at this time, founding the city of Calcutta as a trading post (which annoyed the Mughals but they didn’t prevent it)
What was Great Britain?
In what year did the Byzantine Empire fall to the Ottomans?
What was the year 1493?