East Asia
This is the name of Japan’s warrior soldiers who followed a strict code called bushido.
What are the samurai?
This desert covers most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
These 2 religious groups were against each other during the crusades.
What are the Catholics and Muslims?
The lack of religious depictions in art can be described by this term.
What is secular art?
This Spanish document was read to indigenous people to justify the Spanish actions in the Americas.
What is El Requierimento?
In the 1200s, these people tried to invade Japan twice but were stopped by strong storms and Japanese defense.
What are the Mongols?
This is the holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
After the death of Charlemagne, his land was split across his grandsons in this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Verdun?
This machine was crucial in spreading Protestant beliefs.
What is the printing press?
This double masted device allowed Portuguese sailors to sail long distances to the Americas.
What is a caravel?
Mulan demonstrates a key Confucian ideal by putting her family’s honor and duties above her own desires when she takes her father’s place in the army.
What is filial piety?
This West African city became a major center of Islamic learning and trade, the leader of this city was very famous.
What is Timbuktu?
This place is where Pope Urban first shared a speech to spread the word of the crusades.
What is the Council of Clermont?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
This text tells the Mayan story of creation about two twins.
What is the Popol Vuh?
This branch of Buddhism became popular among samurai because of its emphasis on discipline, meditation, and living in the present moment.
What is Zen Buddhism?
This language spread with Islam and trade across North Africa.
What is Arabic?
During this holy war, Christian kingdoms slowly took back land from Muslim rulers, ending in 1492 when Granada fell.
What is the Reconquista?
This sect of Protestantism believes in predestination.
What is Calvinism?
This city was the largest city in the Aztec Empire?
What is Teotihuacan?
This idea held that a ruler’s authority could be lost if the ruler governed unjustly or failed to maintain order.
What is the mandate of heaven?
This was a Persian mathematician from the Islamic Golden Age who developed algebra.
Who was Al-Khwarizmi?
This was the specific period of time during the crusades when the Muslims took back Jerusalem.
What is the 3rd crusade?
This person got cranky after a paper was on his door.
Who is Francis I?
This language was primarily spoken during the Aztec Empire and is still spoken today in central america.
What is Nahuatl?