• Who prayed the day away?
  Monks and nuns spent a third of their lives at prayer. They promised ...

• Which Russian Czar was terrible?
  Ivan IV, who became Czar in 1533, when he was only three years old. ...

• What was the Ancien Regime?
  The system of government in many parts of Europe between AD 1600 and ...

• How did China get its name?
  From fine pottery and porcelain, produced by Chinese workers, which ...

• What was China’s best-kept secret?
  How to make silk. For centuries, no one else knew how. Chinese women ...

• Which rulers claimed descent from the Sun goddess?
  The emperors of Japan. The first Japanese emperor lived around 660 ...

• Who made laws about cartwheels?
  Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Chinese emperor, who united the country, ...

• Who wrote one of the world’s first novels?
  Lady Murasaki, who lived at the elegant, cultured Japanese court ...

• Where did the Silk Road run?
  From rich Chinese cities, across the Gobi desert, through the ...

• Who valued honor more than life?
  Japanese warriors, called samurai, who were powerful from around AD ...