The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam/ Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia
African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam/ Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe/ The Americas on the Eve of Invasion
Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties/ The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinngis Khan to Timur/ The World in 1450: Changing Balance of World Power
100
All EXCEPT which of the following is among the "Pillars of Islam"?
a. West Africa
b. Anatolia and West Africa
c. The Concept of the city
d. Respect for divinely appointed authority
What is C. Respect for divinely appointed authority.
100
Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning: cosmolitan state.
What is Timbuktu
100
The period in western European history from the decline and the fall of the roman empire until the fifteenth century.
What is Middle Ages?
100
The title granted to those students who passed the most difficult Chinese examinations on all of Chinese literature.
What is Jinshi?
100
Title of the supreme ruler of the Mongol tribes.
What is khagan.
200
What was true about women in early Islam?
What is women had the right to control their own property.
200
African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority associated with states.
What is stateless states?
200
The specialized merchant class in Aztec society.
What is pochteca?
200
Regional warriors in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses.
What is Bushi?
200
The cultural and political movement that begin in Italy ca. 1400 and that created a literary and an artistic style with distinctly more secular priorities.
What is the Renaissance?
300
The grandson of Chinggis Khan and ruler of Ilkhan khanate that captured and destroyed Abbasid Baghdad.
What is Hulegu.
300
Conservative branch of Christianity that developed in Russia and Byzantine.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
300
The relationship among military elites in which greater lords provided protection and aid to lesser lords.
What is Feudalism?
300
Founders of the Qin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in northern China and forced the Song to flee to the south.
What is Jurchens?
300
A slave dynasty in Egypt that defeated the Mongols in the Middle East.
What is Mamluks?
400
Also known as Temujin, he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.
What is Chinngis Khan
400
A separation between the two branches of Christianity.
What is schism?
400
The center of Aztec power founded on a marshy island in Lake Texcoco.
What is Tenochtitlan?
400
Aristocratic Japanese of the ninth century who exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs.
What is Fujiwara?
400
Two kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula that pressed the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims.
What is Castile and Aragon?
500
The reason for the Arab's rapid success in establishing their empire in the seventh century C.E.
What is Sikhism: blended elements of Hinduism and Islam to create a new religion.
500
Ruler of Mali known for his pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325. Also established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world.
What is Mansa Musa
500
He called the first crusade in 1095 to expel Muslims from the holy land.
What is Pope Gregory VII?
500
She was raised to the status of royal concubine during the reign of Xuanzong, and also introduced members of her family into the administration leading to revolt.
What is Yang Guifei?
500
Secret religious sects dedicated to overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty.