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We're the exception!
100
They are the three major Eurasian avenues of commerce and cultural sharing.
What are the Silk Roads, the Sand Roads (or Trans-Saharan trade network), and the Sea Roads (or Indian Ocean trade network)?
100
This practice underlined women's subordinate status in Song Dynasty China.
What is foot binding?
100
These rules of faith include: submission to Allah, daily prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and charity.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
100
They continued many of the traditions of the Roman Empire, although they abandoned Latin in favor of Greek, and developed a distinct branch of Christianity known as Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium)?
100
This military leader ruled the largest land-based empire in all of human history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
200
It is the transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, culture, technology, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
These periods of history saw the development of an enduring government system, including the merit-based examination system, as well as excellence in scholarship, arts, and literature.
What are the Tang and Song dynasties?
200
This is "the community of all believers" that replaced previous tribal, ethnic, and racial loyalties.
What is the umma?
200
He was the head of the Roman Catholic Church, capable of excommunicating kings who did not regard him as the final authority on divine matters.
Who is the pope?
200
Cultivated in Brazil and the Caribbean after 1500, this tremendously profitable substance was used as a medicine, a spice, and a preservative.
What is sugar?
300
It is the system by which China managed its relationship with most other cultures, in which the others had to acknowledge China's cultural superiority.
What is the tribute system?
300
This Chinese invention greatly improved all kinds of navigation, and was quickly traded worldwide.
What is the magnetic compass?
300
This system provided "detailed guidance for prayer and ritual cleansing; marriage, divorce, and inheritance; business and commercial relationships; the treatment of slaves; political life; and much more."
What is sharia law?
300
During this period, the small and often feuding European kingdoms saw population growth, more peace and greater stability, and an increase in technology, trade, and the growth of towns, although still not to the scale of the Islamic and Chinese empires.
What is the High Middle Ages (1000-1300)?
300
This tribute, paid in cash or furs, made the Russian tsars wealthy and impoverished the native Siberians.
What is yasak?
400
This idea was spread extensively through the Silk Roads, due to its merchant-friendly messages and community service.
What is Buddhism?
400
These islands were never successfully conquered by China, although they did adopt much Chinese culture and technology.
What is Japan?
400
Founded in the fourteenth century, it lasted until the twentieth century, occupying the territory of the old Byzantine Empire, and wielding tremendous power and influence in the region. Plus they discovered and popularized coffee!!
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
These were a series of religious wars aimed at recapturing Jerusalem and other biblical sites from Islamic control.
What are the Crusades?
400
This is the destruction of holy images.
What is iconoclasm?
500
This culture increased international trade (in order to tax it) by making the roads safer, providing financial backing for caravans, introducing standardized weights and measures, and giving tax breaks to merchants.
What is the Mongol Empire?
500
He was a Muslim eunuch who made extensive sea voyages with a large fleet during the early fifteenth century.
Who is Zheng He?
500
This king ruled over a primarily Hindu population, promoting religious tolerance and creating a cosmopolitan empire that was later undermined by his grandson's hardline Islamic policies.
Who is Akbar?
500
The works of this ancient Greek writer, rediscovered by Islamic scholars in the ninth century and by European scholars in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, laid the groundwork for the Scientific Revolution some four hundred years later.
Who is Aristotle?
500
He was a Muslim from Morocco who traveled nearly 75,000 miles through the Islamic world during the fourteenth century, writing about his travels as he went.
Who is Ibn Battuta?