• Who spat into their beer?
  Inca women. They made a special beer, called chicha, by chewing com ...

• Where was the Muslim world?
  From around AD 700 to 1200 the Muslim world included southem Spain, ...

• Who was the Son of the Sun?
  The Inca ruler-a king who was worshipped and feared. The Inca people ...

• Where is this spiral tower?
  At Samarra, in present-day Iraq. It is a part of a mosque (place of ...

• What was a huaca?
  An Inca holy place. Inca people believed that powerful spirits lived ...

• When did the Mongols attack?
  In AD 1206, all the separate Mongol tribes united under a warlike ...

• When were the Vikings powerful?
  Viking raiders first sailed south to attack the rest of Europe around ...

• What were Viking ships made of?
  Narrow, flexible strips of wood, fixed to a solid wooden backbone ...

• Where were the Viking homelands?
  The countries we call Scandinavia today-Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. ...

• What did the Vikings seize on their raids?
  All kinds of treasure. Churches were a favorite target for attack, ...