Religions
He was the first caliph.
Who is Abu Bakr?
It was a crossroads of trade and a center of learning in the Empire of Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
In feudalism, this is the name for someone who received a fief and pledged loyalty in return.
What is a vassal?
The early civilization that is considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmec?
The large pyramid structures made in Mesopotamia from sun-dried mud bricks.
What are ziggurats?
After the death of Jesus, he was the most important person in spreading Christianity.
Who is Paul?
It was the name for the powerful female military and political advisors of the Kingdom of Kush.
What is a kandake?
The Roman emperor known for his brutal persecution of Christians.
Who is Nero?
The advanced record-keeping system based on knotted strings developed by early Andean cultures.
What is quipu?
The powerful European trading city that profited the most from the Crusades.
What is Venice?
The god of Zoroastrianism.
Who is Ahura Mazda?
It was the language and writing system of the Kingdom of Axum.
The scientific name of the bacterium that caused the Bubonic Plague.
What is yersinia pestis?
This one-word named city, was the largest of the Maya civilization.
What is Tikal?
Volcanic glass that was used to make weapons in the Maya civilization.
What is obsidian?
In Hinduism, this is a person's religious and moral obligations.
What is dharma?
Traditional pastoral nomads that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
Who are the Bedouin?
This small caliphate was based in Spain and was named for its capital city.
What is the Caliphate of Cordoba?
The most famous example of cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Pueblo civilizations that is still sanding today.
What is Mesa Verde?
It was the invention by the Roman navy that allowed them to fight the Carthaginians at sea as if they were on land.
What is the corvus?
The name for the agreement between Yahweh and the Jewish people on which Judaism is based.
What is the covenant?
It was the type of religious belief that existed in Ghana before the arrival of Islam.
What is animism?
The conflict in 732 CE in which Charles Martel's forces defeated an invasion by the Umayyads.
What is the Battle of Tours?
The other name often used to refer to the Norte Chico civilization, it includes the name of its largest city and most important river.
What is the Caral-Supe civilization?
He was the Athenian leader that most expanded democracy in Athens.
Who is Pericles?