Unit 0
The first centralized government came from...
What is the Persian Empire?
This was the name of the first leader of the Byzantine Empire and the religion did he commit the Empire to.
What are Constantine and Christianity?
This Chinese dynasty created the Grand Canal.
What is the Sui Dynasty?
This was the name of the trade city that capitalized on the fall on Islamic caliphates in Mali.
What is Gao?
This was the name of the system of legal and military relations between lords and monarchs.
What is feudalism?
This was the era of post-Alexander-The-Great, focused on arts and literature, in Greece, it was called...
What is the Hellenistic Period?
This was the name of the consolidation of elites and monarchy and the eradication of a decentralized nation.
What is monarchial centralization?
Name the country that copied China and built a feudalist government.
Name the collective group of kingdoms next to Ghana and Mali.
What are the Hausa Kingdoms?
Name the five pillars of Islam and the two divisions of Islam.
1: What are Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Hajj, and Fasting?
2: What are Shi'a and Sunni?
This was the Chinese dynasty that emerged in 202 BCE, led by Liu Bang, helped make the Silk Road, was called...
What is the Han Dynasty?
These two countries had the first large-scale maritime empires.
What are Portugal and Spain?
This was the Mongol policy that helped facilitate the safety of merchants and great amounts of trade on the Silk Road.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This was the unifying symbol of the Asante Empire.
What is the Golden Stool of Asante?
This was the term for the combining of different religions or schools of the same thought.
What is syncretism?
This was considered the 1st monotheistic religion from Persia.
What is Zoroastrianism?
These "3 G's" were the motivation for exploring and conquering land outside of Europe.
What are God, glory and gold?
This was the shogunate that was ruling over Japan when Japan underwent their isolation period.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
This was the name of the dynasty that emerged in 1506 and rivaled the Ottoman empire for years.
What is the Persian-Safavid Dynasty?
This was the invention that helped sailors measure the latitude of the stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This was the name of a major trade route connecting Rome and China. This trade route also inspired the Sub-Saharan trade network.
What is the Silk Road?
This was the name of the state that beat Novgorod and took land from them.
What is the Russian State?
Name the author who was also a Chinese general that went around documenting his travels.
Who is Zheng He?
Name this kingdom that is located in modern-day Angola, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1491, and has some of the first slave receipts known (shown in letters to Alonso I).
What is the Kingdom of the Kongo?
This was the term for the claim that the power to rule came from God.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?