Military
Belief Systems
Vocabulary
Cities and Continents
100

The success of the military expansion of this empire was largely credited with their ability to shoot a crossbow while on horseback.

What is the Mongolian Empire?

100

The belief system of Western Europe.

What is Roman Catholicism?

100

An independent political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding territory.

What is a city state?

100

Rome

What is Europe?

200

This compound was used first by the Chinese to make noise and fireworks, then later adopted and weaponized by western Asia.

What is gunpowder?

200

The belief system of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Orthodox Christianity?

200

These types of goods are expensive and hard to find

What are luxury goods?

200

Constantinople

What is Europe/Asia?

300
After Western Europe successfully recaptured the sacred cities from the Islamic world, they set up these governing entities in those cities.

What are Crusader Kingdoms?

300

The belief system of the Ottoman Empire.

What is Islam?

300

Movement to a new area with the intent to settle.

What is migration?

300
Texcoco

What is North America?

400

A military system adopted by the Byzantine Empire in which land was granted to farmers who, in return, would provide the empire with loyal soldiers.

What is the theme system?

400

The belief system expanded by the Song Dynasty.

What is neo-Confucianism?

400

A human-made water transportation system.

What is a canal?

400

Delhi

What is Asia?

500

The name used to describe Devishires and Ghulams, the slave soldiers who were able to become nobles.

What is the Janissary System? 

500

The belief system of the Mughal Empire.

What is Islam?

500

A narrow choke point that connects two bigger bodies of water.

What is a strait?

500
Cuzco

What is South America?