Far East
The act of tightly wrapping the foot, making it smaller and more "femine", eventually deforming the woman's feet.
What is Foot Binding?
It's capital in Baghdad, this dynasty flourished in Islamic civilization for about 300 years (700-1000).
What is the Abbasid caliphate?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire, now named Istanbul, which means "The City", was originally named after its founder, Emperor Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
A period of rebirth in Europe as ancient Greek writings were brought to Italy and then all of Europe.
What is the European Renaissance?
By the time Columbus had landed in the Americas, this Civilization had died out 500 years prior.
What is the Maya Civilization?
Ruling most of China from 960-1279, this gave China a period of stable political rule.
What is the Song Dynasty?
in the 11th & 12th centuries, the Seljuk Turkic Empire gave way to this more expansive, Islamic Empire in the 13th century.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The Eastern and greek-speaking half of the Christian church, after the "Great Schism".
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
What were the Crusades?
This empire was the work of the Mexica people and lasted until defeated by the Conquistador Hernan Cortez.
What is the Aztec Empire?
During this time, China became "by far the richest, most skilled, and most populous on the Earth."
What was China's economic revolution?
Ottoman Turks are, usually this religion.
What is Islam?
These Russians were a loose band of viking traders, slaves, and commoners lead by a variety of princes until united by Prince Vladimir of Kiev and converted to Orthodoxy in 988.
Who are the Kievan Rus?
This Christian organization led to much of the unity throughout Europe before Crusades. They were the other half of Christianity after breaking away from the east in the Great Schism of 1054.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The great capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Marco Polo called this capital "beyond dispute the finest and noblest [city] in the world." It was the capital of the Song dynasty.
What is Hangzhou?
Muslims and Christians intermingled and sustained a cross-cultural experience in this Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
What is al-Andalus?
These people would have considered themselves Romans and heirs of Rome, but spoke Greek and their empire lasted nearly 1000 years.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This overarching term for Europe pre-1000 where unification was more difficult with large mountain ranges, dense forests, political chaos, and successful farming led to small feudal lands. After 1000, it began to crystalize and let to larger unity and eventually nationalization, with the church at the center.
What is Western Christendom?
What is the Mayan Empire?
Korea and Vietnam, distancing themselves from the influence of China, created this phonetic alphabet in the 1400s.
What is hangul and chu nom?
This Ottoman fighting unit was the first "standing army" since the time of the Roman Empire. Most of them were, kidnapped, castrated, young men, forced to accept Islam.
What are Janissaries?
This great Church in Constantinople was built by Emperor Justinian in 537. It's name means "Holy Wisdom".
What is Hagia Sophia?
During the Renaissance, learning moved from monasteries and churches to these institutions, such as in Paris, Bologna, Oxford, and Cambridge.
The opposite of "barbarian" or "savage".
What is civil, civilized or civilization?