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Islam
Byzantine Empire
Mongols! AAHHH!!!
Tang and Song China
Japan
100
These people were the desert nomads of Arabia during the time of Muhammad.
Who are Bedouins?
100
This religious leader was the head of the western church and supported the use of icons.
Who is the Pope?
100
This man was a brilliant organizer and military commander who led the Mongols to the biggest land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
100
This invention helped Chinese merchant ships increase their business.
What is the magnetic compass?
100
The Japanese borrowed many things from this land, but adapted them to suit themselves.
What is China?
200
This dynasty replaced the "rightly guided caliphs".
Who was the Umayyads?
200
This was the body of laws created for the Byzantine Empire.
What is Justinian's Code?
200
This man placed Mongols or foreigners in power rather than Chinese because he thought they would have no local loyalties.
Who is Kublai Khan?
200
This was done to upper class women to improve the status of their husbands.
What is foot binding?
200
Art, culture, and etiquette were greatly advanced during this period.
What is the Heian Period?
300
Muslims believe this man was the last and greatest of God's prophets.
Who is Muhammad?
300
She convinced her husband to stay and fight for the throne of Constantinople during the Nika Rebellion.
Who is Theadora?
300
During this 100 year period, trade was reestablished along the Silk Roads.
What is Pax Mongolica?
300
Chinese farmers imported a new type of this crop from Vietnam that allowed two harvests a year instead of one.
What is rice?
300
During much of Japanese history the real power of Japan was not the emperor, but this person.
What is the Shogun?
400
Islam means this in arabic.
What is submission to the will of Allah?
400
This was the biggest reason for the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
What is attacks from enemies.
400
Fighting among Mongols over who would be the next Khan helped the Chinese overthrow this dynasty.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
400
The Tang government revived and expanded this in order to restore their bureaucracy.
What is the civil service examination?
400
These were the warrior class of Feudal Japan.
What are samurai?
500
The Abbasid Dynasty controlled their empire with this.
What is a strong bureaucracy?
500
Instead of fighting the Byzantines often used this to fend off an enemy.
What is diplomacy?
500
This European man served the Great Khan for 17 years before returning to his home in Venice, Italy.
Who is Marco Polo?
500
She was the only woman to ever take the title of Emperor of China.
Who is Wu Zhao?
500
This was the strict code of behavior for samurai.
What is bushido?