China
What belief system guided government and daily life during the Song Dynasty and emphasized respect for family and education?
What is Confucianism?
What is the traditional Japanese belief system that involves worship of spirits called Kami and has no sacred text?
What is Shintoism?
What is another name for the Byzantine Empire that continued after the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
What is the Eastern Roman Empire?
Who is considered the founder and prophet of Islam?
Who is Muhammad?
What is the traditional African belief system that includes ancestor worship and the belief that spirits exist in nature?
What is animism?
How did the reunification of China before the Tang Dynasty help spread Buddhism?
What is it created stability and allowed Buddhist beliefs to spread more easily through trade and travel?
What two belief systems from China and Korea greatly influenced Japanese government and culture?
What are Buddhism and Confucianism?
How did the Byzantine Empire help spread Christianity and the Latin language?
What is through missionary work, trade, and the continuation of Roman traditions?
What helped Islam, its culture, and the Arabic language spread across parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe?
What is trade, conquest, and missionary work?
Why were cities like Timbuktu and Djenne important in the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What is they were centers of trade, education, and Islamic culture?
Which Mongol leader united the Mongol tribes and began a series of successful conquests across Asia in the early 1200s?
Who is Genghis Khan?
Which Dynasty developed art, literature, fashion, and court life that were distinctly Japanese?
What is the Heian Aristocracy?
Which Byzantine emperor created a famous code of laws and built the Hagia Sophia?
Who is Justinian I?
Which area of learning did Islamic scholars make major contributions in, helping preserve Greek and Roman knowledge?
What is science, medicine, mathematics, geography, and philosophy?
What were the three main goods exchanged along the Trans-Saharan caravan trade routes?
What is salt and gold?
How did Zheng He impact China?
What is his voyages expanded trade and cultural exchange
What did Prince Shotoku do?
What is create the Constitution?
Why were Justinian’s legal reforms, known as Justinian’s Code, significant?
What is they preserved Roman laws and influenced European legal systems for centuries?
How did the growth of trade routes affect the role of merchants in Islamic society?
What is it made merchants more influential, spread goods and ideas, and supported the growth of powerful cities?
How did griots help preserve West African history?
What is they were oral historians who passed down stories, traditions, and history through generations?
What is the name of Kublai Khans DynastY?
the Yuan Dynasty
Why did the samurai and shogun become powerful in Japan?
What is they exchanged land for protection?
How did Constantinople’s location help preserve and protect European culture?
What is its position between Europe and Asia made it a center of trade, defense, and cultural exchange, helping protect Christian and Greco-Roman traditions?
Why was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 an important turning point in world history?
What is it marked the rise of the Ottoman Empire and shifted trade and power in the region?
Why was Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 important for Mali and the Islamic world
What is it showed Mali’s wealth, strengthened Islamic ties, and helped spread Islam and education in West Africa?