Historical Achievements and Legacies Quiz

achievement/legacy of Japan

• Zen Buddhism

• printing press

• Haiku poetry

• Code of Bushido

achievement/legacy of the Inca Empire

• international postal service

• roads

• suspension bridges

• silk

achievement/legacy of Mongol Empire

• largest-land mass empire

• suspension bridges

• international postal service

• re-birth of Silk Road

African trading center in Indian Ocean Trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• Ottoman Empire

• Papal States

• Timbuktu

India achievement & legacy

• gunpowder

• 0

• roads

• Sanskrit language & numbers

achievement/legacy of Mesoamerica

• roads

• rubber

• heliocentric theory

• Haiku poetry

Buddhism

• spread along Silk Road; mostly found in East Asia

• originally taught of a "force" but some have added gods

• caste system

• pope is spiritual leader

achievement/legacy of the Renaissance

• printing press

• natural rights

• Protestant Reformation

• perspective art

caused the Crusades

• invasion of Germanic tribes

• Muslim conquests of the Holy Land and the Byzantine

• Pope Urban II's desire for more power

• Western European's desire for wealth

achievement/legacy of the Scientific Revolution

• Gothic architecture

• microscope

• heliocentric theory

• gravity