Byzantine Empire
This language continues to influence the world in science, math, law, and medicine.
What is Latin?
This is the climate of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is desert?
This geographic feature isolated West Africa from Northern Africa prior to the arrival of trade and the religion of Islam.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This construction project helped to unify China during the Sui Dynasty.
What is the Grand Canal?
This group of people lived in isolated communities called monasteries and dedicated their lives to prayer and their faith.
Who are monks?
This emperor established this new capital of the Roman Empire in the East that was named after himself.
Who is Constantine? What is Constantinople?
This person received visions from the angel Gabriel, fled to Medina and became the accepted ruler there, then began to preach Islam to the people of Mecca/Makkah.
Who is Muhammad?
These are the two most important resources from West Africa.
What is gold and salt?
The Chinese took control of this trade route during the Tang Dynasty.
What is the Silk Road?
The lowest level of the feudal social hierarchy was made up of these people.
Who are serfs/peasants?
These are two architectural achievements located in Constantinople.
What is the Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia?
These were the rulers of the Arab Empire who spread Islam to conquered territories such as Spain, Northern Africa, and further into Western Asia.
Who were the Umayyads?
This is the term used for a West African storyteller who orally passes down traditions and history.
What is a griot?
These exams helped to improve the governments of the Tang and Song Dynasties and ensured their governments were free from corruption.
What are Civil Service Exams?
These are two events that significantly decreased the population of Europe and weakened feudalism.
What are the Crusades and the Black Plague/Bubonic Plague?
This Emperor created a new code of laws that reorganized the legal system throughout the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian?
These are two of the five pillars of Islam.
What is belief?
What is prayer?
What is fasting?
What is charity?
What is pilgrimage?
This person made a pilgrimage to Mecca from Timbuktu, helped to spread Islam, and increased trade in West Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This Japanese culture was made up of fierce warriors who received land for their services, practiced Zen Buddhism, and followed the Bushido Code.
What is the Samurai Culture?
France and England were involved in this war that was fought over control of land located in France.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
These are two reasons why the Roman Empire split into two different empires. (The Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire)
What is political confusion/poor leadership?
What is economic weaknesses/inflation?
What is invasions by Germanic tribes?
What is famine/diseases?
This Ottoman Ruler was known as "The Conqueror" and conquered the city of Constantinople and changed the name to Istanbul.
These are characteristics of traditional West African religions.
What is animism? (spirits exist in nature)
What is music, masks, and dance?
What is calling on ancestors for help?
These were two major construction projects completed during the Ming Dynasty of China.
What is the reconstruction of the Great Wall?
What is the construction of the Forbidden/Imperial City?
These are the people that the Spanish Inquisition targeted as a result of the Alhambra Decree.
Who are non-Christians? (Such as Muslims and Jews)