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100

This leader began the Mongol Empire.

Genghis (Chinggis) Khan

100

This is the most famous of the Mayan city states.

Chichen Itza

100

The Sui emperors connected China through a system of what?

Canals

100

The Mayans independently came up with the idea for what mathematical concept, enabling them to use decimal places.

Zero

100

This animal was the beast of burden on the Sand Roads of the Middle East and West Africa.

Camel

200

These people are believed to be the first civilization in the Americas.

Olmecs

200

Angkor Wat, an enormous Hindu temple and city complex, was built by what SE Asian empire?

Khmer

200

This item gives evidence that the Polynesian explorers were in contact with South Americans in ancient times.

Sweet Potato

200

Many Chinese women previously had to undergo this procedure.

Foot binding

200

This African civilization adopted Christianity in the 300s AD.

Axum (Ethiopia)

300

This descendent of Genghis Khan ruled China at the height of the Yuan Dynasty.

Khublai Khan

300

This SE Asian kingdom was built around an important straight of the same name.

Melaka

300

The Song Dynasty in China introduced this form of currency.

Paper money

300

Ancient Japanese code of honor, primarily practiced by the samurai class.

Bushido

300

The Ethiopian Orthodox Christians believe they are in possession of what ancient religious item?

Ark of the Covenant

400
This is the society from which culture in the Andes Region sprouted.

Chavin

400

This SE African state built large stone structures, proving ancient Africans were capable of large building projects.

Great Zimbabwe

400

Gutenberg would later print the Bible using this invention first pioneered in ancient China.

Movable type

400

This is a trading language created so that different peoples in East Africa could trade with each other.

Swahili

400

This African civilization frequently had female rulers.

Nubia (Meroe)

500

This culture existed in the American southwest and built cliff cities in places like Mesa Verde, Colorado.

Anasazi

500

This is the most famous of the Mound Builder sites in North America. It is located right outside St. Louis.

Cahokia

500

The Black Plague is believed to have begun in this land.

China

500

Polynesian concepts of authority and purity.

Mana and tapu
500

Chu nom was a modified version of the Chinese script used by what Asian country?

Vietnam