Ancient Maya and Ancient Egypt
This massive stone featuring three languages helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This painful practice, started during the Song Dynasty, involved tightly binding young girls’ feet to alter their shape and was seen as a symbol of beauty and status.
What is footbinding?
The Umayyad Caliphate was the first great Muslim dynasty after the death of this prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
This religion spread along Indian Ocean trade routes and greatly influenced coastal regions of East Africa and Southeast Asia
What is Islam
This series of religious wars aimed to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control.
What is the Crusades
The ancient Maya civilization was located in this region of the world
What is Mesoamerica
This famous trade route, improved during the Song Dynasty, helped connect northern and southern China for trade and transport.
What is the Grand Canal?
Born as Temujin, he united the Mongol tribes and took this title, meaning “universal ruler.”
Who is Genghis Khan?
This valuable mineral was traded across the Trans-Saharan routes and was crucial to West African kingdoms.
What is gold
This system organized medieval European society into kings, nobles, knights, and peasants.
What is feudalism?
Along with drought and famine, some historians believe that the collapse of the Maya was accelerated by this human-caused problem, where too much farming damaged the land.
What is deforestation or overfarming?
This religion, which originated in India, flourished in China during the Tang Dynasty and influenced art, architecture, and literature
What is Buddhism?
This city, conquered by the Mongols in 1258, marked the end of the Abbasid Caliphate.
What is Baghdad
These animals, known as the “ships of the desert,” were essential for carrying goods across the Sahara in large groups called caravans.
What are camels?
This devastating pandemic struck Europe in the 14th century, killing millions.
What is the Black Death
This river was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt, providing water, transportation, and fertile soil.
What is the Nile River
The Tang Dynasty revived and expanded this philosophy-based civil service system to recruit educated officials
What is Confucianism or the civil service examination?
The Umayyad dynasty was overthrown by this rival dynasty in 750 CE.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
These seasonal winds helped sailors navigate and plan their voyages across the Indian Ocean.
What are monsoon winds
This event in 1054 CE split Christianity into the Roman Catholic Church in the West and this church in the East.
What is the Great Schism (or the East–West Schism)?
Despite the names, this part of Egypt was located in the south and included the Nile River’s source regions.
What is Upper Egypt
The Song Dynasty was the first government to issue this, which made trade and commerce easier.
What is paper money or banknotes?
his Islamic legal code, derived from the Quran and Hadith, was used to govern many parts of Dar al-Islam.
What is Sharia law?
This famous Venetian merchant traveled along the Silk Roads and later wrote detailed accounts of his journey to China.
Who is Marco Polo
During the Middle Ages, this empire controlled much of the eastern Mediterranean and was a center for Orthodox Christianity.
What is the Byzantine Empire