Islam
What is the Holy Text of Islam.
The Quran
The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are part of what religion?
Buddhism
What is the idea that a king's right to rule comes with divine blessing?
Mandate from Heaven
Which religion from India became very popular in Japan after blending with native Shintoism?
Buddhism
What is the best preserved collection of Mayan religious stories?
The Popul Vuh
Who was the Mali emperor known for being the richest man alive?
Mansa Musa
Which conqueror was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
Charlemagne
Who is the prophet and founder of Islam.
Muhammad
Which Indian Prince was the founder of Buddhism.
Siddhartha Gautama
The title meaning "Old Master" is credited to be the writer of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Daoism. What title is that?
Lao Tzu
Which figure is considered descendant from Amaterasu and is the head of Shintoism?
The Emperor (of Japan)
Tenochtitlan and Teotihuacan are underneath which modern-day city?
Mexico City
Which two goods were the most commonly traded goods that brought wealth to the West African Empires?
Salt and Gold
Which system bonded the king and lower nobles together through land and loyalty?
The Feudal System
What are the basic tenants of Muslim life called?
The Five Pillars of Islam?
Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Sudras are all examples of what Vedic word for social class?
Varnas
What is the Confucian idea of human-heartedness.
Ren
What was the world's first novel?
The Tale of Genji
What was it called when a wooden bar tied with colored strings was used by the Inca to store and convey information?
A Quipu
What were the West African storytellers, poets, singers, and historians who preserved a culture's oral tradition called?
Griots
Which disease tore through Medieval Europe and killed 30-60% of the population?
The Black Death (the Plague)
What adjective describes religions like Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, which trace their lineage back to an Old Testament Patriarch?
Abrahamic
Which Vedic word is the form a Hindu god takes on Earth.
Avatar
Who was the Italian trader and explorer served in the Yuan court and wrote about his experience.
Marco Polo
What was the social system in Ancient Korea determines standing based on ancestry?
The Bone Rank System
Which conquistador lead the conquering of the Aztec?
(Hernan) Cortes
What is the tallest freestanding mountain in the world?
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Which leader of Muscovy created a centralized kingdom in Western Russia?
Ivan the Great
What 800 Year War fought between the Christian Spanish and the occupying Islamic Empire.
Reconquista
Which Hindu god is called the destroyer, and plays an integral part in the continual cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction of the universe.
Shiva
Which Mongol grandson of Genghis Khan began the the Yuan dynasty?
Kublai Khan
What is the "way of the warrior" for Japanese Samurai?
Bushido
The Inca lived in which mountain range in South America?
The Andes
Who was the Moroccan historian and map-maker recorded much of what we know about the West African Empires?
Ibn Battuta
Which kingdom in modern-day Ukraine was invaded by the Mongols and lost much of its culture?
The Kievan Rus
Which city is the birthplace of Muhammad?
Mecca
Which mountain range runs along the northern edge of India and separates it from the rest of Asia?
The Himalayas
What was the title for the first Emperor of China?
Shihuangdi
Which Kingdom unified the Korean peninsula after Korea's three Kingdoms period?
The (Unified) Silla Kingdom
The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was in which lake in Southern Mexico?
Lake Texcoco
Which desert separates the African Mediterranean coast from the West African kingdoms?
The Sahara Desert
Which position was the leader of the entire Christian Church prior to the schisms that split the Church in the 11th Century?
The Pope