Leaf Test

1) Who were the Mayans?
2) Where did the Mayans live?
3) What were some of their accomplishments?
4) How is the emergence of their early civilization unlike that of the river valley civilizations from the Old World (Eastern Hemisphere)?
5) What was their writing system like?
6) What is Japan’s geography like? Does it have much arable land? Does it have earthquakes and volcanoes?
7) How does Shintoism regard the Japanese emperor?
8) What is a shogun?
9) What is a daimyo?
10) What is a samurai and what was his role?
11) What sort of social and economic structure did medieval Japan have?
12) What aspects of culture did Japan take from China?
13) What was Heian Japan like?
14) Who was Lady Murasaki and why is she remembered?
15) What is a geisha?
16) What is Angkor Wat? Where is it? Why was it built?
17) Where is Cambodia located relative to Thailand and Vietnam?
18) How did Cambodia’s predominant religious beliefs change over time?
19) Where is Korea and what is its geography like?
20) How did Confucianism reach Korea?
21) What is Hangul?
22) How did Tang Dynasty China pick its government officials?
23) What is the Great Buddhist persecution?
24) What are some major inventions or innovations of Tang and Song Dynasty China?
25) What is foot-binding?
26) Why might Tang and Song Dynasty China have produced so many great poets?
27) How were Tang and Song Dynasty China meritocratic?
28) What is Neo-Confucianism?
29) What is serfdom? What was its cause? How did it affect peasants in medieval Europe?
30) Who was Charlemagne? What are his accomplishments?
31) Why did Charlemagne want to be crowned by the pope?
32) What happened to the Carolingian Empire?
33) What are Viking longships? What made them so effective?
34) Where did the Vikings conquer? Where were they from?
35) How did the Viking religious faith change during the 10th and 11th centuries?
36) What was the Great Schism? What were its causes?
37) What was the Norman Conquest? When did it happen?
38) How did the Norman Conquest affect the development of the English language?
39) Who was William the Conqueror and why might he have won the Battle of Hastings?