The arrival of this religion had the greatest impact on Sub-Sahara Africa in the post-classical period.
What is Islam?
100
This was the capital of the Byzantine Empire
What is Constantinople?
100
This was the term given to the time period after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
100
This city in Western Russia became the center of political and economic power in Eastern Europe.
What is Kiev?
100
This empire saw the expansion of the civil service system to include more bureaucrats drawn from the scholar gentry thus reducing the power of the Chinese nobility.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
200
This was the term given to many African societies prior to the arrival of Islam because they lacked the concentration of political power and authority found elsewhere in the world.
What is "stateless?"
200
This great domed church was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
This plague killed nearly one third of Europe's population during the Middle Ages?
What is the Black Death?
200
This ruler of Kievan Russia preferred the combined position of religious and political leader modeled under the Byzantine Empire and rejected the papal interference of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Vladimir I?
200
The early Tang emperors practiced this religion
What is Buddhism?
300
The great Islamic West African empire of Songhay was originally dominated by this Empire.
What is Mali?
300
The version of Christianity practiced by the Byzantine Emperors and many of their subjects.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
300
These series of wars led by Christian knights exposed Europeans to new scientific learning, new military techniques, and the use of Arabic numerals.
What are the Crusades?
300
This region of the world had little influence on Kievan Russia because Russia's religion, culture was focused more on Central and Eastern Asia.
What is Western Europe?
300
This cultural practice became widespread during the Song Dynasty resulting in the status of women to fall as they were essentially tied to their household.
What is footbinding?
400
Despite the arrival of Islam to Africa, this East African kingdom remained Christian.
What is Ethiopia?
400
While the Byzantine Empire was seen as a direct continutation of the classical Roman Empire, the Byzantines rejected the Latin language and instead adopted this as the official language of the Empire.
What is Greek?
400
This leading figure in the Catholic Church reconciled Catholic theology with Aristolian philosophy while teaching at the University of Paris in the 13th century
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
400
In 1236, Kievan Russia was conquered by this nomadic people.
Who are the Mongols?
400
This new ideology based on an ancient Chinese philosophy was practiced by Song emperors as a reaction to the power of Buddhist monks and monasteries.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
500
This Bantu-based and Arabic influenced language was spoken mainly by the important coastal city states which were part of the Indian Ocean trading network.
What is Swahili?
500
The Byzantine Empire was similar to this civilization in that it allowed talented commoners to hold government positions.
What is China?
500
Pope Gregory VII declared this invalid and disallowed the state appointment of Catholic bishops.
What is "investiture?"
500
This northern Russian city and principality succeeded Kiev as the center of Russian politics and economy.
What is Moscow?
500
This founder of the Sui dynasty established a policy of reforms including public granaries for use in times of famine.