Islam
Mongols
China & East Asia
East/West Africa
East/West Europe
100

Recognized as the final prophet in Islam.

Who is Muhammad?

100

Mongol rule helped link these major trade networks.

What are the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean routes?

100

This major Chinese belief system, revived during the Song dynasty, emphasized filial piety, education, and social hierarchy.

What is Confucianism?

100

The wealth of Mali came primarily from this export.

What is gold?

100

This Christian capital was unmatched in its splendor in early Europe.

What is Constantinople?

200

One of the Five Pillars requires this daily religious practice.

What is praying five times a day?

200

 This 13th-century trade route system thrived under Mongol protection, allowing merchants, ideas, and diseases to move across Eurasia more freely than ever before. 

What is the Silk Road?

200

Unlike fragmented Europe, China during this period was politically what?

What is unified?

200

This region traded actively across the Indian Ocean.

What is the Swahili Coast?

200

This political system developed in Western Europe with many kings ruling different areas.

What is feudalism?  

300

Islam expanded rapidly in part due to this method of conquest.

What is military conquest?

300

Mongols contributed to global diffusion by spreading inventions from this country.

What is China?

300

This form of relationship allowed China to manage diplomacy and trade by receiving gifts and symbolic submission from neighboring states.

What is the tributary system?

300

Islam spread peacefully to West Africa, unlike this method in Spain or India that spread by.

What is violent conquest?

300

This empire preserved Roman traditions while Western Europe fragmented.

What is the Byzantine Empire?

400

This famous center of learning in Baghdad, known, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars worked together to translate and preserve ancient texts from Greece, Persia, and India.

What is House of Wisdom

400

Genghis Khan united this group of nomadic people.

Who are the Mongols?

400

This ideology became central during the Song dynasty.

What is Neo-Confucianism?

400

This major trade network connected West African kingdoms like Mali to the Middle East and Europe through gold and salt exchange.

What is the Trans-Saharan trade?

400

During the Crusades, Europeans borrowed scientific knowledge from this civilization.

What is the Islamic (Arab) world?

500

After Muhammad’s death, conflict arose due to the lack of this.

What is a clear line of succession?

500

Mongol policies during conquest often involved this brutal tactic.

What is instilling fear through mass slaughter?

500

During the Song Dynasty, this agricultural innovation dramatically increased rice yields and supported massive population growth and urbanization.

What is Champa rice?

500

These two African trade routes shaped East and West African development respectively.

What are Indian Ocean trade and Trans-Saharan trade?

500

Two branches of Christianity. 

What is Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church