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What was the importance of griots in African Society?
They maintained the oral history of their people
100
The two most important rivers in China were what?
Yellow and the Yangtze
100
These warriors followed the Bushido and protected Japan
Samurai
100
What was the dominant form of social class in Medieval Europe?
Feudalism
100
What was the Renaissance?
a revival of interest in classical art, learning, and literature
200
What is a group of traveling merchants and animals called?
caravan
200
trade route that had a major impact on the Chinese economy
Silk Road
200
Japan is a chain of around 4000 islands called a what?
Archipelago
200
What religious leader was the most powerful person in Medieval Europe?
Pope
200
This country is know to be the home/beginning of the Renaissance
Italy
300
What is the holy book of Islam?
Quran
300
Which Philosophy is closely associated with the Yin and Yang symbol?
Taoism
300
Nature spirits in Shintoism are called what?
Kami
300
These were a series of Holy-Wars fought to take back the holy land of Jerusalem.
The Crusades
300
Who nailed his 95 Theses to the Church demanding reformation?
Martin Luther
400
What were the three main empires in africa?
Mali, Ghana, Songhai
400
The invention of this directional tool in China made traveling much easier.
Compass
400
What type of theatre is native to Japan?
Noh Theater
400
The Great Schism of 1054 divided Christianity into what two sects?
Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity
400
What is this painting? 
Mona Lisa
500
Who were the first Medieval Europeans to begin buying and selling slaves in Africa?
Portuguese
500
What founder, better known as the Buddha, was a young prince who set out on his own journey to find enlightenment.
Siddhartha Gautama
500
Below the Emperor in the Japanese Feudal Pyramid is the ______ who is a powerful military leader
Shogun
500
This leader of the Anglo-Saxons was defeated by William The Conqueror in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings
Harold Godwinson
500
Name the four most famous Renaissance Painters
Donatello, Michelangelo, Da vinci, Rafael