Food
Although it's hard to imagine Italian food without tomatoes, medieval chefs in Italy during the medieval period didn't have any tomatoes because these two continents hadn't been "discovered" by Europeans.
What is North and South America?
Most of the world's gold comes from this continent.
What is Africa
What is a mosque?
Medieval peasants used these to keep bugs away.
What are plants?
The Strait of Hormuz is where ships enter the Persian Gulf from this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Medieval peasants mostly cooked using this method.
Most of the world's silver comes from this continent.
What is South America?
Complex geometric patterns can be created with nothing more than a straight edge and a ____________.
What is "a compass"?
They didn't have dentists, but their teeth were remarkably free from tooth decay because sugar wasn't a part of their diet.
Who are medieval peasants?
The capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?
Sorghum, Yams, and Millet are staples of this continent's diet.
What is Africa?
The mining of this essential part of our diet was done in the Sahara and brought great wealth to the rulers of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Empires.
What is salt?
The sun always rises in this direction.
What is east?
Medieval holidays were plentiful and part of this institution's calendar.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The Sassanid Persian Empire was fighting against the this empire immediately prior to being conquered by Arab invaders.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
If you prefer white bread, then you prefer bread that is mostly made of this plant.
What is wheat?
What is Islam?
This niche in a mosque shows the direction of Mecca
Without a government, Thomas Hobbes wrote that life would be, "nasty, brutish, and __________."
What is "short"?
Persian rugs have this kind of patterns.
What ius geometric?
The main ingredient is most Chinese dishes.
What is rice?
The Silk Road crossed Asia across land to the north of this mountain range which separates India from China.
What is the Himalaya Mountain Range?
How many of the ten hottest years on record have occurred since 1995?
What is "all of them"?
Constantinople is now...
What is Istanbul?