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Mesoamericans (Did/Didn’t) develope along water

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Didn’t

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Did Mesoamericans trade with Greece?

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No

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Islams downfall in Rome led to ____

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Shift in the Middle East

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Key contributions of the Bantu

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Language and Iron Metallurgy

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List the west African kingdoms in order

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Ghana, Mali, Songhai

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East African kingdoms

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Axum and Zimbabwe

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Religion of Axum (East African kingdom)

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Christianity

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Which kingdom was Mansa Musa from?

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Mali

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List the Greek city states

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Athens and Sparta

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Alexander the Great’s empire spread ____

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Hellenism

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What was the type of government in the roman republic

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Monarchy // it was centralized

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List three types of roman republic infrastructure

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Roads, columns, domes, concrete

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How did the roman republic fall??

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Huns, Germanic tribes

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Persias government was ____

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Centralized

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14
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Abbasid empire

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Golden age

Re established trade routes

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Middle East - women treatments , religion, success in _____

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Women treated fairly well until sharia laws
Want to convert people to Islam
Success in conquest

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16
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Egypt contributes ____

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Art

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17
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Sumarians and Babylonians are _____

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Mesopotamian

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18
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With the Delhi sultanate, leaders are ______

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Foreign conquerors

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19
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Gupta, Han & Romans decline from ___

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Invaders

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Mohenjo, Daro & Happara were all ____

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Early river civilizations

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List Chinese dynasties in order that they existed

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Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

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Which Chinese dynasties had the Mandate of Heaven

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Shang, Zhou

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Mandate of Heaven

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The “Mandate of Heaven” is an ancient Chinese philosophical concept, which determines whether an emperor of China is sufficiently virtuous to rule; if he does not fulfill his obligations as emperor, then he loses the Mandate and thus the right to be emperor

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Africa has _____ rulers

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Indigenous

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The Han dynasty fell from ____

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Invasion and debt

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Early river civilizations were mostly ______ and _____

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Polytheistic, patriarchal

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27
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Kritios Boy

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Transition from archaic to classical period

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28
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Iliad

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Greek sign of polytheism

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29
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The Aenid

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Describes the journey of Aeneas. Roman

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30
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Socrates taught by _________

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Asking questions

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Zoroastrian is _____

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Aristotle taught ____

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Alexander the Great

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Socrates taught _____

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Hammurabi

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Babylonian King

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Hebrews

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Judaism, monotheistic, Abraham

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Shi Huangdi

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Legalism , filled tomb with terra cotta soldiers

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Confucianism

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Final piety, respect, loyalty

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Legalism

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Blind obedience

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Daoism

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Animism, nature

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Hinduism

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Reincarnation, caste system

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Siddhartha Guatema

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God in Mayana Buddhism

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Augustus ceaser

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Pax Romana, romanization

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Romanization

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Putting roman aspects in a country’s infrastructure

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Sunni

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Caliphs are selected

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Shiite

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Caliphs are directly related to Muhammad

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Sufis

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Missionaries

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Ziggurat

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Place of worship

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Corinthian columns

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Ionic columns

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Doric columns

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Acropolis

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Walled city

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Cordova

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Cathedral/mosque

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Ka’aba

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Grand mosque of Mecca

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Basilica

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Foundation/steps of a church

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Caryatids

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Women used as columns

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Roman republic rules by ______

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Representatives

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Romans borrowed the ______ from Etruscans

58
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Define the roman law

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Innocent until proven guilty

59
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Bantu language mixed with Arabic turns into ______

60
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Mansa Musa

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Brought gold to city and inflated the economy

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Mali

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Indigenous leaders convert to Islam

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Silk roads involved _____________

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Asia,China,Middle East,Roman Empire,parts of Africa

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Civil exam service

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Han & confucisnism

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Caste system

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Mesopotamia is the ______

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Land between rivers

66
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Athens form of government

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Democracy // rule by the people

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Sparta form of government

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Oligarchy // rule by military

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Catharsis

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Moment of recognition

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Allusion

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To refer something without directly saying it

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Assonance

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Repetition of a sound or vowel

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Diety

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Divine status ( God or goddess )

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Parallel structure

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Using the same pattern or words to show the same level of importance ( I love hikING, runnING, and swimmING )

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Paradox

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A statement that leads to a senseless conclusion

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Anthropomorphism

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Giving something human like characteristics to further prove a point

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Muse

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Greek/roman goddess // presides over arts and science // daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne

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Tone

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The authors attitude towards something

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Mood

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How the reader feels

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