Jews, Christians, and Muslims all claim him as the father of their faith.
Who is Abraham?
100
Making a journey to this city is one of the 5 pillars of Islam.
What is Mecca?
100
This was built in China under the reign of Shih Huang Di.
What is The Great Wall of China?
100
The most powerful position in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the pope?
200
The son of Abraham from whom Arabs and Muslims descended.
Who is Ishmael?
200
African geography is divided into three areas: desert, grassland, and this.
What is jungle?
200
The Arabic term for Muhammad's flight to Medina in 622.
What is hijra?
(Also hegira...)
200
This is one who follows Islam.
What is a Muslim?
200
This city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
300
This founder of Islam was born in 570.
Who is Muhammad?
300
This country is home to the caste system.
What is India?
300
The Middle Ages refers to a period in history from approximately ________ to ________ AD.
What is 500 and 1500?
300
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Koran?
300
This religion/church became powerful in the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Greek Orthodox Church?
400
First king of the Franks
Who is Clovis?
400
This city is the one to which Muhammad fled when he was pushed out of Mecca, and where he spent most of the rest of his life.
What is Medina?
400
This was the battle where Charles Martel defeated the invading Muslims and stopped the spread of Islam further into Western Europe.
What is the Battle of Tours?
(AKA the Battle of Poitiers.)
400
This position was more powerful than a king in early Frankish Kingdom.
What is Mayor of the Palace?
400
This "army" was discovered in the 1970s but was part of an elaborate tomb created by Shih Huang Di.
What is the terracotta army?
500
Born in 744, this king of the Franks greatly increased the Frankish Empire and became the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Who is Charlemagne or Charles the Great?
500
Pope Gregory sent this man as a missionary to England. He became known as Augustine of ______________.
What is Canterbury?
500
Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, was crowned king of the Franks by Pope Zachary. This was important because it set the precedent of _______ authority over kings.
What is papal?
500
The word Kaaba actually means this shape.
What is cube?
500
A system in the middle ages where a nobleman was given a territory, or fief, to rule for a king in exchange for providing men for the king's army.