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This was the name for the powerful regional military class in Medieval Japan.

Shogun

100

This was the practice in Medieval Europe in which vassals of the king and nobility — most-notably the peasant class — had the right to forage, hunt, fish, farm, etc., from the land on which they were legally bound.

Common Land

100

This term refers to the loyalty and duty owed by vassals to their lords in the feudal system, often involving military service and other obligations in exchange for protection and land.

Fealty

100

This was the name for the powerful Japanese land-owning class and assisted and answered to the region military class mentioned above.

Daimyo

100

This is a method which involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed and formulating a hypothesis via induction; and refinement (or elimination) based on the experimental findings.

Scientific Method

100

This basketball player is known as "King James."

LeBron James

200

This is the name of the Turkish Muslim state which emerged from Anatolia in the late 14th-century and grew to encompass parts of North Africa, the Levant, the Caucuses, and Southern and Eastern Europe.

Ottoman Empire

200

This is the practice of organizing of rural economies which vested legal and economic power in a lord of the estate.

Manorialism

200

This is the name of the Muslim state that ruled the majority of the Indian subcontinent from roughly 1206 to 1526 CE.

Delhi Sultanate

200

This was the triangular system of trade that developed between the Americas, Europe, and the West African kingdoms which involved raw materials, manufactured goods, and the purchasing of slaves.

Atlantic System

200

This was a series of policies implemented in 7th-century Japan to emulate the Chinese state system and culture. 

Taika Reforms

200

This Danish company is famous for its colorful interlocking plastic bricks.

LEGO

300

This was the name of Japan’s period of isolation from roughly 1639-1853.

Edo Period

300

This is the name of the practice exercised in the Balkans region in which Christian boys were confiscated, converted to Islam, and placed in military or administrative service of the sultan.

Devshirme

300

This was a devasting rebellion in China from 1850 – 1864 that resulted in mass destruction of Chinese domestic life and fatality estimates as high as 70 million.

Taiping Rebellion

300

This was a way of structuring society around relationships that were derived from the holding of land or fiefs in exchange for service or labor that was popularized in Medieval Europe and Japan.

Feudalism
300

This was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, the Old World, and West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Columbian Exchange

300

This planet is known for its rings and is often joked about for being the "Lord of the Rings" in the solar system.

Saturn

400

This is the astronomical model in which the Sun, moon, and stars revolve around the Earth.

Geocentric Model

400

These were European laborers who paid for their passage to the Americas by signing multi-year labor agreements; it was used as an initial source of labor in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Indentured Servants

400

This was a Manchu-led dynasty that ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912.

Qing Dynasty

400

This was the name of Japan’s era of civil war in Japan (1467-1603).

Sengoku Period

400

These were a series of wars waged from 1520-1648 that disrupted the religious and political order in Europe.

Wars of Religion

400

This Jedi Master trained both Qui-Gon Jinn and Count Dooku.

Yoda

500

This is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience. It emphasizes the role of observable, or otherwise experiential, evidence in the formation of ideas, rather than innate ideas or traditions.

Empiricism

500

This figure is often credited with beginning the Scientific Revolution in 1543 with the publication of his theories about the solar system.

Nicolaus Copernicus

500

This was an influential figure who helped development scientific thought by emphasizing the importance of empirical evidence and the induction of general scientific laws from testable observations.

Francis Bacon

500

This was an influential figure who confirmed the theories of Copernicus through observation on a refined telescope.

Galileo Galilei

500

This was/these were the royal patron(s) of a series of exploratory expeditions along the coast of West Africa.

Henry the Navigator

500

This villain is known for her obsession with dalmatian fur coats.

Cruella de Vil