Indian Empires
Mahabodhi Temple, built on the site of an older temple by Asoka (c. 250 BC)
Indian Empires
- Mauryan Empire
- Tamil people
- Gupta Empire
- Patriarchial
- Matriarchial
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Theraveda Buddhism
- Stupas
- Shakuntala by Kalidasa
- Astronomy
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- What were the major Indian trade goods?
- Silk Roads
- Where did Indian culture spread to?
Han, Tang, and Song China
Empress Wu Zetian was the only female ruler of the Chinese Empire during its 4000 year history. She led a major expansion of Chinese territory, and gave major state support to Daoism, Buddhism, education, and the arts.
Han, Tang, and Song China
The Mongol Empire
Mongol soldiers, in Jami al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, 1305-1306
Mongol Empire
- Steppes
- Pastorialists
- Clans
- Temujin/Genghis Khan
- Khanates
- Khanate of the Great Khan (Mongolia and China)
- Khanate of Chagatai (Central Asia)
- Ilkhanate (Persia)
- Khanate of the Golden Horde (Russia)
- Pax Mongolica
- Kublai Khan
- Yuan Dynasty
- Kamikaze
- Marco Polo
Feudal Japan
Miyamoto Musashi killing a giant creature, from The Book of Five Rings
Feudal Japan
Southeast Asia
Borobudur on the island of Java in Indonesia is the world's largest Buddhist temple. It was constructed during the 9th-century.
African Peoples
This South African dancer is dressed in traditional attire of the Zulu, a Bantu-speaking people.
African Peoples
African Civilizations
Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) was a Moroccan traveller, geographer, botanist and judge who traveled over 73,000 miles during his life! From his North African home he visited Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and southern Africa. He was probably the most far-ranging human before modern times.
African Civilizations
Native Americans
Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA was built by the Anasazi people of the modern American southwest.
Native Americans
Aztecs and Incas
Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti around 1450 AD. It was abandoned after the Spanish conquest of Peru and remained largely forgotten until its rediscovery by an American archaeologist in 1911 AD.
Aztecs and Incas
- Teotihuacan
- Toltecs
- Aztecs/Mexica
- Tenochtitlan
- Triple Alliance with Texcoco and Tlacopan
- Chinampas
- Great Temple
- What was needed to keep Huitzilopochtli fed?
- Montezuma II
- Incas