Byzantine Empire
Russia and Eastern Europe
China
Korea and Japan
Geography
100
This empress is depicted in the center of the below photo:
Who is Theodora?
100
Varangian is the Russian word for this.
What are Vikings?
100
Li Yuan and Li Shimin together, as father and son, established this dynasty in 618 AD.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
100
King Sejong greatly increased the literacy rate of Korea by doing this.
What is developing hangul?
100
Russia was culturally linked to the Byzantine Empire as its rivers ran from North to South into this body of water.
What is the Black Sea?
200
In 1453 AD Constantinople fell to this group of people.
Who are the Ottoman Turks (led by Mehmed II)?
200
Batu and the Mongols rule of Russia was primarily referred to as this.
What is the Golden Horde?
200
Due to Confucian beliefs, this group was viewed as the lowest in Tang and Song China.
Who are merchants?
200
This is the title given to the supreme military leaders in Japan, who held real power in Japan, even over the emperor.
What is shogun?
200
Constantinople is located on this narrow passage of water that connects two seas or two other large areas of water.
What is the Bosporus strait?
300
This structure is the greatest piece of architecture from the Byzantine Empire. (give both its English and Greek name)
What is the Hagia Sophia and Holy Wisdom?
300
Rurik was the leader of this tribe, from which Russia gets its name.
Who are the Rus?
300
Zhu Yuanzhang led a rebellion against this group in 1368 and established the Ming Dynasty.
Who are the Mongols / Yuan Dynasty?
300
The Chinese brought these two belief systems to Korea.
What are Buddhism and Confucianism?
300
Japan is a grouping or chain of islands, called this.
What is archipelago?
400
The Byzantine Empire was a blend of traditions from these three groups.
Who are Greeks, Romans, and Christians?
400
The seat of the Russian Orthodox Church was ORIGINALLY in this city and then LATER moved to this city.
What are Kyiv and Moscow?
400
Due to the Song's open border policy, farmers imported THIS fast growing crop, which also enabled them to grow THIS at the same time.
What are rice and a cash crop?
400
During the Kamakura and Tokugawa Periods, Japan had this economic and political system.
What is Feudalism?
400
Eastern Europe stretches from this body of water to this peninsula.
What is Baltic and Balkans?
500
The Schism of 1054 was the culmination of various differences and disagreements between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Roman Church. These are two of them.
(hint: there are more than two but name any two)
What is:
1) Rejection of papal supremacy
2) Use of icons in prayer
3) A cardinal excommunicating the Patriarch of Constantinople
4) Use of leavened vs. unleavened bread
500
Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Buglaria, and other countries use this alphabet today.
What is the Cyrillic Alphabet?
500
Due to the death of Zheng He and an incredibly high cost, China stopped doing this in 1435.
What is overseas exploration?
500
Shinto, meaning "way of kami", is the worship of this.
What is nature / forces of nature?
500
Kublai Khan established Khanbaliq as the capital for the Yuan Dynasty, which today is this city.
What is Beijing?