Imperial China
Lessons 1 & 2
Imperial China
Lessons 3 & 4
African Civilizations Lessons 1 & 2
African Civilizations
Lesson 3
The Americas
Lessons 1-2
100

An accidental Chinese invention that led to the creation of fireworks and powerful weapons. (pages 190-191)

What is gunpowder?

100

The Mongols had a powerful army in part because from a young age they trained on how to ride and shoot arrows from this animal. (page 196)

What is a horse?

100

The 2 main trade items coming out of the Mali and Ghana Empires. (pages 295-296)

What is gold and salt?

100

The age that most African boys and girls began learning their gender roles by being around the adults of their community. (page 308)

What is 6 years old?

100

The main crop grown throughout Mesoamerica. (page 259)

What is corn (maize)?

200

A Chinese invention that inspired paper money and made books much more affordable. (page 190)

What is the woodblock printer?

200

The name of the Mongol leader who unified the Mongol clans and build a huge merit based army. (pages 196-197)

What is Genghis Khan?

200

African griots were primarily this. (page 296)

What is storytellers?

200

The name of the stringed instrument that griots often used. (page 312)

What is a kora?

200

The original or “mother culture” of Mesoamerica that made giant stone heads and was obsessed with jade. (page 260)

What is the Olmec?

300

Two major restoration and construction projects by the Sui dynasty. (page 179)

What is the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal?

300

The name of the Muslim Chinese explorer who took a massive fleet of Ming Dynasty ships on trade missions to India, Arabia and Africa. (pages 206-207)

What is Zheng He?

300

The name of the super wealthy Muslim king of Mali who handed out much gold during his pilgrimage. (pages 301, 303, 305)

What is Mansa Musa?

300

The name of the first European nation to enslave Africans. (page 309)

What is Portugal?

300

The name of the large South American empire that used quipu and was destroyed by the Spanish invaders. (pages 271-272)

What is the Inca?

400

The Tang and Song dynasties were known for having highly organized, or ______ governments. (pages 180 & 182)

What is centralized?

400

3 of the religions that could be found in the Mongol controlled trade city of Quanzhou? (page 202)

What is Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity?

400

The religion that became dominant across Eastern and Western Africa due to trade relationships with Arabia. (pages 303-305).

What is Islam?

400

3 of the genres of modern music that have been inspired by spirituals. (page 311)


What is blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, rock & roll and rap (hip hop)?

400

The names of 2 Mesoamerican empires that offered human sacrifices to their gods. (pages 266-269)

What is the Maya and the Aztec?
500

The names of 2 popular belief systems in China that were blended with Confucianism to make "Neo-Confucianism". (page 185)

What is Buddhism and Daoism?

500

Something the Ming dynasty did to advance and improve China after years of Mongol rule. (pages 204-205)

What is civil service examinations, census, rebuild canals and farms, plant forests, improve farming, fix roads, repair the Grand Canal, increase trade, build Forbidden City?

500

The names of 3 of Africa's major geographic regions? (page 292)

What is a desert, sahel, mediterranean, tropical grassland (savanna), and tropical rainforest (jungle)?

500

The way in which most African lineage groups were set up within a community. (2 part answer - page 307)

What is matrilineal extended families?

500

The people that lived along the Mississippi River built these in different shapes and for different purposes. (page 264).

What is mounds?