During the period from the 12th to 15th centuries CE, what was the land from the Gulf of Finland in the west to the northern Ural Mountains in the east (including the Lake Ladoga regions of modern Russia) known as?
Result - The Novgorod Republic
Songhai Empire, more than 1,000 years old and from the 15th to the late 16th centuries one of the largest Islamic empires in history, was where?
What term is used to describe Western European architectural style for the period from the late 10th to the 12th century which was identifiably Medieval and prefigured the Gothic, yet maintained the rounded Roman arch?
A roughly east-west belt of what, separates the land mass of central Asia from the northward-travelling land mass of India and its neighbours?