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Jihad

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To struggle. Applies to all aspects of life, Quran only supports armed struggles in case of self defense

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What year did the Muslim calendar start?

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622

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Pope Gregory VII

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Had a feud with Henry IV over who should lay investors

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Who was Babur

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(Mongol) Claimed descendant from Genghis Khan, was the leader of the Turkish and Mongol armies invading india. Was a military leader and genius, poet, and an author of a detailed book of memoirs

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Who died that made Russia feel full of unrest???

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Ivan the terrible

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Crusades

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Holy warsThere were 4 of them(LOOK THEM UP IN CLASS NOTES❕❕❕❕❕❕❕)

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Charles Martel

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The man who rallied Frankish warriors against the Muslims when after they crossed into France.

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Domesday book

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William of Normandy authorized it, it said how much each man owned and how much it was worth

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Umayyad caliphate

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A dynasty of Sunni caliphs that ruled the Muslim empire until 750. Their capital was Damascus (Syria). They Concorde Spain, France, and places in north Africa. Battle of Tours ended their expansion

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What was the Estates General in France?

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It was the term for the Social hierarchy there. It was ordered clergy, nobility, and everyone else

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Who was Petrarch

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A Florentine who was a humanist, poet, and scholar. He assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts in monasteries and churches

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Papal authority

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Power of pope

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Shinto

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(means the way of the Kami)It’s the traditional religion of Japan. Involves worshipping the forces of nature and your spiritual ancestors

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The Magyars were raiders from the Asian steppes and they settled in…

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Hungary

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Reconquista

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Reconquest

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wrote Canterbury tales

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In 1398, where did the Mongols that invaded india come from?What did they do?

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Asia, they destroyed Delhi but never actually settled on their newly destroyed lands

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Magyars

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Nomadic people who tried to invade a few times

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Patron

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Financial supporter of art

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Ming dynasty

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(means brilliant) a peasant farmer named Zhu Yuanzhang forged a rebel army to fight the Mongols and pushed them back beyond the great wall. The Ming dynasty was well known for its sea exploration, but after great Admiral Zheng He died the emperor banned ship building

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Ivan the 3rd sometimes refers to himself as…

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tsar, or caesar

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Mongols

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Nomadic headers that liked to conquer people

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Kiev

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A City in the center of the first Russian state. It’s where main trade was

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Abu bakr

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Muhammed father in law, became leader of Shi’ites Muslims

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Apprentice

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Trainee to a Guild master

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Suleiman the magnificent

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Brought Ottoman Empire to its greatest power in the 16th century Conquered modern Hungary and Greece (was stopped at Vienna) Killed oldest son, exiled 2nd oldest, made dumb 3rd one heir

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wrote Canterbury tales, story’s about pilgrimages, one of which goes to st. Thomas Beckets tomb

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What city was the center of a vital trade network???

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Kiev

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Pipe innocent the third

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Claimed Supremacy over all worldly rulers, launched a Crusade against the Albigensian’s in southern France. They were regarded as heretics

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Battle of Hastings

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William the Conquerer defeats Harold

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What was an important contribution of the Byzantine empire?

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It’s blending of christianity and greek culture

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Absolute monarchy

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The ultimate authority who ran the state (the king)

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What tradition did Ivan the terrible introduce that shaped history into the 20th century?

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Extreme absolute power

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34
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The Mongols who invaded Russian were known as the…

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Golden Hoard

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35
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🌟Leonardo da Vinci

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Made the Mona Lisa, the last supper, was considered a genius for his creativity

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Papal Supremacy

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Power over all secular (worldly) leaders

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HRE Henry IV

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Was the King of Germany, was a holy roman emperor, feuded with Pope Gregory VII over who should lay investiture, Gregory excommunicated him, but when Henry asked for forgiveness as a sinner Gregory had to free him of excommunication, and Henry lead an army to Rome Forcing Gregory into hiding

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38
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Starting at 7, many nobles trained to be…

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Knights (mounted warrior)

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39
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Selective borrowing

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Taking some Chinese ways of life by not all of it.

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40
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Hagia Sopia

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It was once the centralized church building if the eastern orthodox church, but now it’s a museum Hagia sophia means “Holy wisdom”, and that was a title for Jesus

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Mecca

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Town where Muhammad was born, is the starting place for HIS journey called Hijra to Yathrib

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Shari’a

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Islamic law, both religious and political in the past. Teaches you how to actually practice Islam

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Bushido

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(means way of the warrior) Code for samurai to be honorable, brave, and 100% loyal to your lord

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Battle of Stamford bridge

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Battle where Harold defeated Tostig, his brother

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45
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Fief

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An estate Vassals would receive

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Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204

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Mother to Richard the Lion Hearted, she often ruled when her husband or son was away. She even wore armor and rode a horse alongside brave men during the second crusade

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Samurai

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(means those who serve)Warriors

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The 4 classes of society

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Top- Men of the sword (defense)Men of the pen (educated people ((judges, poets, lawyers, scientists, etc…)))Men of negotiations (merchants)Men of husbandry (farmers and herders)

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49
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Jewish refugees fled western Europe because…

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Of persecution and expulsion

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50
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Charlemagne (Charles the great)

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Charles Martel’s grandson, became king of Franks in 768. Built an Empire that reached into France, Germany, and Italy. Pope Leo the third makes him the Emperor of Romans.

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William the Conqueror

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Was in the battle of Hastings, beat Harold and became king on Christmas day in 1066

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Tower of London

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Built as a prison almost a Melanie’s ago, so the newly crowned king William of Normandy could keep his new subjects in line. Could also be used to keep track of trade and keep an eye out for invaders

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What are the five pillars???

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Declaration of faith-“There is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his prophet/messenger”Prayer (5 times a day)Alms (support poor, 2.5% of annual savings)Fasting (during holy month of Ramadan, no eating from sunrise till sunset) Pilgrimage, (to Mecca, at least once in a persons life if physically and financially able)

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55
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There were three regions in Russia, one is the steppe. What are the other two like???

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The northern forests supplied them with wood and game,The southern part was good farm land. This is where the population grew

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Feudalism

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The system where lords rule their own lands

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Muhammed al-Razi

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Head physician at Baghdad’s chief hospital, that theorized you need to treat the mind as well as the body, studied and wrote books on measles and smallpox

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Edward the confessor

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Second to last Anglo saxon king, was very religious, before he died pronounced Harold his successor even though his Cousin William of Normandy said he already promised it to him

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Vassals

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Lesser lords who pledged loyalty to the high lord

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60
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Inquisition

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Assigned by the church, they inquisition would torture people into confessing heretics, then burn them

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61
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Cannon Law

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Church LawsGoverned Wills, Marriage, and Morals

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62
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Czar or Tsar

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Titles of rulers of Russia, means Caesar

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63
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🌟Perspective

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The technique of showing a distant object on a flat surface

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64
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Grand canal

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Completed during the Sui dynasty, it linked the Huang river to the Chang river

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65
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The Nika Revolt

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It took place in January in 532 in Constantinople, against Justinian during a chariot race. Everyone was cheering on their own team, shouting concur, or “Nika”. Suddenly the were all yelling it at him.

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🌟Florence

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Located in Italy, it had the richest merchants and bankers I’m Europe. Where the Medici family lived, they were Patrons

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Friars

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Monks who did not lead isolated lives in monastery’s , but instead traveled and preached to the poor

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What is the difference between the Sunni’s and the Shi’ites??????????

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Sunni’s believe any good Muslim can lead, Shiite’s believe that it has to be a direct descendant from Muhammed

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Partnerships

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Groups of merchants pooling funds for a large scale venture that would have been to expensive for any one person

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70
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Who brought Constantinople to its highest peak, and restored the Hagia Sophia after it had been destroyed during riots???

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Justinian

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71
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Great schism

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Byzantine emperor Leo bans icons, causing the eastern and western church to split in 2 in 1054

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72
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Troubadours

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Wandering musicians who sang story’s about knights

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73
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Gentry

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Wealthy landowning class

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74
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Why was Constantinople’s location so safe???

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It was a harbored city on a trade route guarded by water

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75
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Due process of law

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Fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizens entitlement

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76
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How did Mongol rule effect Russia’s relation ship with western Europe?

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It isolated Russia from Europe and it’s advances in science and art?

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77
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What does Ottoman mean???

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Follower of Osman

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78
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Pope Urban II

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Alexius, the king of the Byzantine empire asked him to send reinforcements to help him fight the Muslims. Popes and Byzantine emperors we’re long time rivals, but he agreed. And that’s how the first Crusade started

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🌟Thomas More

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English Humanist ago pressed for social Reform, wrote a book called Utopia that showed where men and women live in peace and harmony

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Harold

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Last Anglo Saxon king of England, died at the battle of Hastings trying to get the throne

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81
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The Serbian state reached its height in power under…

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Stefan Dusan

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82
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Saladin

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Ruler of Egypt, launched a few crusades and made a treaty with king Richard to let them keep Jerusalem

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83
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Moors

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Spanish Muslim kingdoms

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84
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Mehmet the 2nd

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1452 conquest against Constantinople (had 30 ft long commons, 1,200 lb boulders) The guy who remained it Istanbul

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Al-khwarizmi

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One of the greatest Muslim mathematics, he pioneered the study of algebra, and in the 800’s he wrote a book that was translated into Latin, that became one of the most used in Europe

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86
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Lay investure

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Appointing of clergy 😝

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87
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Feudal contract

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The exchange of pledges in Fuedalism

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88
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Kaaba

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Temple that Muhammed rededicated to Allah

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89
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The Golden Hoard

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A Mongol army, know as this for the color of their tents

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90
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Scholasticism

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Using reason to support Christine beliefs

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St. Francis of Assisi

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Giving up a comfortable life, he devoted his time to preaching the gospels and teaching by his own example of good works. He and his newfound group the Franciscans preached about poverty, humility, and the love of God

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Hangul

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King Sejong of Korea wanted the koreas to have their own alphabet, so he had experts create it

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Louis IX

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Led two crusades against muslims, was a king of England, persecuted heretics (people who believed in the church) and Jews, was declared a st. 30 years after his death

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Tournaments

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Knights engaged in mock battles

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Muhammad

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Was born in the town of Mecca, when he was 40 years old heard the angle Gabriel called him to be the messenger of god. Was a merchant. Was the last and greatest prophet.

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Asburg

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The location where the princes supported Luther

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Middle class

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By the year 1000 merchants, traders and artisans formed their own class, in-between nobles and peasants

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Schism

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A split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief

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Celadon

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Porcelain with unusual blue-green glaze

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Holy Land

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Jerusalem and other places in Palestine.

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Sills Dynasty

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Koreans prosper and art flourishes. Buddhism became am important religion to the Korean’s

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Iconoclasm

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The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices

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Abbasids

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Abu al-Abbas was a resend any from Muhammad’s family, and he captured Damascus in 750, then managed to kill almost all off the Umayyad family except for one member, bringing in the Abbasid dynasty that lasted till 1258

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Seljuk Turks

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They Migrated from the North Iranian provinces in Ventral Asia into mainland Iran formerly known as persia

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Serfs

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Peasants

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Jainizaries- the elite force

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Ottomans would make christens pay a tax by having their younger sons for government service. They would bd converted to Islam and would go off to training school

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Delhi

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City where Muslims set up their capital in 1200, lasted 200 years, they built 30 colleges 100 hospitals and 200 towns

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Justinian’s code of laws

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Roman laws he changed for his needs and then established

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🌟HRE Charles V

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Had tricked Luther into coming to the city of Worms for the diet (assembly of princes), making him think he would be allowed to argue his work but instead tried to make him confess it was all wrong

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Marco pollo

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Italian merchant, traveled all over Asia

111
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Where is Constantinople located on a map???

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By the black sea

112
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How would Russian princes keep mongols at bay??

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Paying them a fee to bit invade and let them rule their own territory

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Interdict

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An order of exclusion involving an entire towns sacraments being stripped

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Pope Clement V

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Instead of being appointed by Cardinals, he was appointed by king Phillip IV. The same king also appointed a lot of Grench cardinals so the pope would almost always be French. He forced him to declare pope Boniface VIII’s “Clericis Laicos” invalid. That made it so clergy couldn’t pay subsidies to lay authority’s.

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King John

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Son of king henry the 2nd, he was an Enemy of King Phillip the 2nd of France, Pope innocent the 3rd, and his own English Nobles. Fought Philip and lost parts of France, fought pope over who should choose the arch bishop, and got excommunicated. In order to save his crown, he accepted England as a fief of papacy and payed a yearly fee to Rome from then on

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King Richard

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Negotiated with Saladin for Christians right to visit Jerusalem

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Anglo Saxon chronicles

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An Early history of England, mostly written by different members of the clergy, was about events on warfare and important of the time

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🌟Erasmus

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Priest, made a Greek edition of the bible, wanted the bible translated into Vernacular.

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Autocrat

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A sole ruler with complete authority over the people

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Holy Roman Empire

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A multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the middle ages and continued until its end in 1806 😝

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Ottomans

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Turkish speaking NOMADIC people

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The Russian language is written in

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The Cyrillic alphabet

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Missi Dominici

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Charlemagne’s officials who administered law and to see justice through.

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Magna Carta

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A great charted (document) that said nobles had certain rights (over time those rights went on to the English citizens), and Monarchs had to obey the law

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Merchant Guilds

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Made up of merchants they dominated town life, passing laws and levying taxes . They also decided where town funds should go, like to paving the streets

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🌟Albrecht Durer

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(guy with curly hair that sort of looks like Jesus in his paintings)Was a pioneer in spreading renaissance ideas through northern europe, did engraving in his artwork.

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Ecumenical patriarch

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Universal patriarch

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🌟Indulgences

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Buying your way into heaven

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Jury

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Group of men sworn to speak the truth in court. Decide which cases to use for the court.

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Parliament

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At first, it had been nothing more than a gathering of men who summoned the king to him talk about matters of law or the state. After many years, parliament had to give its consent for new taxes

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Ibn Sina

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At 16 was a doctor for Persian nobles, and wrote a book on what Greeks arabs and himself learned about diagnosing and treating disease

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Calligraphy

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The art of beautiful hand writing

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🌟95 theses

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The story Luther posted on the church doors complaining about indulgences and other things

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Choson dynasty

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The last and longest of koreas three dynasty’s. Korea makes its own alphabet, and more people learned how to read and write.

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Steppe

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An open, treeless grassland that Nomads traveling through the region used for there cows and horses. It’s one of the three regions of Russia.

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What was the one difference between the roman and Byzantine churches before the great schism?

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Byzantines Christians rejected the popes power over them all

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Hajj

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OUR Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Literacy rate

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How many people can read and write

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Corpus Juris Civilis(Body of Civil Law)

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Justinian’s code

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Ivan the great

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He married the last Byzantines emperors niece, and freed Russia from mongols, believed in absolute power.

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Excommunication

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When church would not give sacraments to a certain town

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Genius Khan

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Mongol chieftain (name literally means universal ruler) made a vast empire of eastern Europe. He never completed his conquest of china

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Where is Rome located on a map?

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Italy

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Tributary states

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States that remained self governing but acknowledged China as their supreme ruler and had to send regular tribute to the Tang emperor

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Wu Zhao

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A very sneaky and cruel empress, that climbed the stairway of Pierre through deception and cruel deeds. Was the very first women Chinese emperor

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Ghazi Turks

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Muslim warriors dedicated to Jihad. Osman carved out a Ghazi state in the anatoliaHad gunpowder, muskets, and cannons

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The south Slav country of Serbia was concord by…

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The ottoman Turks in the 1300’s

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Benedictine Rule

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Rule of thumb used by Monastery’s, made by a Monk named Benedict in 530Monks and nuns would take 3 vows. 1. Obedience 2. Poverty 3. Chastity/purity

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Clovis

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King of Franks, who one a battle in the name of Christianity. He converts to Christianity

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Zheng He

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Commanded 7 expeditions, had 62 huge ships, 200 small ones, and the largest ship was 400 feet long. Went to southeast asia and India

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Gentry

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Wealthy landowning class

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What body of water separates the two sections of Constantinople?

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The north sea.

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Bayeux tapestry

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Depicts Norman conquest from beginning to end, ends at the battle of Hastings

154
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What occurred during the Mongol rule of Russia

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The princes of Moscow gained power and influence

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Dante Alighieri

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An Italian poet, wrote a poem about an imaginary journey to hell and purgatory. There, souls await forgiveness. At the end its about heaven. “Abandon all hope ye that enter here” maker

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Zen Buddhism

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Used Daoist terms (chinese=Ch’an) values peace, stories are passed down from teacher to student, find inner peace, be open

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Jihad

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Struggle in Gods service

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Minarets

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Towers that 5 times a day people called for others to pray each day

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Frederic Barbarossa

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Otherwise know as red beard, wanted to build an Empire from the Baltic to the Adriatic. He tried to take wealthy Italian cites, but they got help from the pope and they stopped him

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Steppe

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Vast treeless plains

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Gothic

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It’s most important example, was the flying buttress, or rather stone supports that stood outside the church. Theses supports allowed builders to make higher and thinner walls, in order to make incredibly high ceilings and leave room for stain glass windows. Another example is Romans had smaller windows

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Vernacular

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Everyday language of ordinary people

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Constantinople

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Capital of Roman empire, lasted 1,500 years before it was captured by the Ottomans, was the city with the great defenses

164
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What is the difference between sultan’s and a Caliph

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Sultan-head of EmpireCaliph-head of Muslims

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The ottoman empire survived till…

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1918

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Ivan the terrible

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Ruled for 51 years, had a secret police, was always unstable but really went off his noodle when his wife died. Thought everyone was out to kill him so he killed them first.

167
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Vikings

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Traders, invaders, explorers, sailors, and farners

168
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Qur’an

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Island holy book that contains the message revealed to Muhammed by Allah. It helps the Muslims with social and Moral codes, tells them god is merciful, and that people are responsible for their own actions

169
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Henry VIII

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He originally supported the pope and hated Luther, but he broke away from the church to make his own religion. He made himself the head of it, and the entire reason he did it was so he could divorce his wife. Had 6 wives, and translated the bible to English

170
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Manor

A

Lords estate

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Craft Guilds

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Artists came to resent the Merchants and their power, so they organized there own guild. Each one represented an occupation such as weaving, baking, or goldsmiths.

172
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Kana

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The Japanese revised the Chinese writing system by adding phonetic symbols representing syllables (or Kana)

173
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Utopian

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The idea of the ideal society

174
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What did the russians copy from the Byzantines?

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The domes of their churches for their own.

175
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Ferdinand and Isabella

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They made the final push against the Muslim stronghold of Granada. It fell in 1492, and the reconquista

176
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Mosques

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House of prayer

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Land reform

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Emperors would brake up large agricultural holdings and redistribute the land to peasants

178
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Icon

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Sacred image that’s treated as holy itself

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Seeks (or could be Sieks, Seiks?)

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Hinduism+Islam, they believed in reincarnation, but their Monotheists

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Cyril

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One of the Lord’s that had been sent to Kiev to convert the Slavs to Christianity.

181
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🌟Niccolo’ Machiavelli

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Wrote a guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power called the Prince

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🌟Michelangelo

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Had been a Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet. Has been called a Melancholy genius. Made the statutes Pieta (Mary holding dying Jesus) and David (Shepard killing Goliath)

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Baghdad

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Site of 2nd caliph Al-Mansur’s capital

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Thomas Becket

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Arch bishop who did not want king Henry to try clergy in royal courts. One day 4 knights heard him shouting who will rid me if him, and they killed him

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What was the language of the Byzantine church???

A

Greek

186
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Russia’s rivers linked early russians to…

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The Byzantine empire

187
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Akbar

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Babur’s grandson, was the chief builder of the Mughal empire during his rein from 1556-1605. he also created a strong central gov., which earned him the title Akbar the great. Ended the taxes on non Muslims.

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Secular

A

Worldly

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Damascus

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CAPITAL of Syria

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Yuan dynasty

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A Mongol dynasty, white and Blue Porclelain is introduced.

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Nur Jahan

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Wife to Akbar’s son Jahangir, she was in control of most of the details of the Gov., and was the most powerful woman in Indian history till the 20th century

192
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Philip the fourth of France

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King if France who secured royal power by creating wars against other neighbors

193
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Thomas Aquinas

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A Scholastic, concluded faith and reason exist in harmony. So he basically brought together Greek philosophy and Christian faith

194
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Yathrib

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City that Muhammed journeyed to, was later renamed Medina, or “ city of the prophet”

195
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Koryo Dynasty

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(word Korea was deprived from it.)Capital is Songak. Koreans used woodblock printing from china to produce Buddhist texts.

196
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Community of Muslims

A

Umma

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Parliament

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The highest legislator (a person who makes laws),consisting of sovereign, the house of lords, and the house of commons

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Theodora

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Justinian’s wife and queen, was an actress and was therefor seen unfit to rule. Would not flee during the Nika revolts, and died if cancer

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The great Mosque

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Built during Muslim rule in Spain on a sight that had once been a christen church. It’s architecture is very unique, and it’s prayer hall has 500 Collins

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Ibn Rushd

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Philosopher who put all the knowledge except for the Quran to the test of reason

201
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🌟Humanism

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Humanists studied the classical culture of Greece and Rome, but used that study to increase their understanding of their own times

202
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Cyrillic

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The alphabet used to translate the bible into Slavic

203
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Caliph

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Successor to Muhammed

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Charter

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A written document about the rights and privileges of a town

205
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Vernacular

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Everyday languages of the people, such as French, German, and Italian.

206
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What was Constantinople re-named?

A

Istanbul

207
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Archipelago

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The chain of islands Japan’s located on.

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Which side of Constantinople is Asia minor on???

A

East

209
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Muezzin

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Person ego calls the faithful to the prayer at Mosques

210
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Common law

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A legal system based on court rulings. It applied to all of England

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The Mughal dynasty

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Lasted from 1256-1857, it was set up by Babur, after he got rid of the last of the Delhi Sultanate (Mughal is the Persian word for Mongol)

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Chivalry

A

Knights code of honor

213
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Who appointed church officials in Byzantine?

A

The king

214
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Greek fire

A

Atomic bomb of the time, made by the Byzantines

215
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Justinian

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He ruled for 38 years, was considered Byzantines most ambitious ruler. Wanted to recreate the roman empire and made a code of laws similar to the roman code of laws.

216
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Song dynasty

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A scholarly general named Zhao Kuangyin reunited a lot of China and founded the dynasty. It ruled for 319 years. It controlled less land than the tang dynasty, but they were under a lot more threat. They improved a lot of farming methods and built canals. They were eventually fell at the feet of the Mongols. They made paintings of nature mostly

217
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What’s the body of water that separates Europe and Asia

A

Eps porous strait

218
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Taj Mahal

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Mumtaz’s resting place, created by her husband Shah Jahan

219
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Habeas corpus

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The principle that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime

220
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Tehran

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The capital of the Qajars, after they won control of Iran. They ruled till 1925

221
Q

What did clergy in the Byzantine empire get to keep doing???

A

Marry

222
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Who owned castles in the 1100’s?

A

Monarchs and Nobles

223
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Byzantine!

A

Empire, Constantinople was capital

224
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Ibn Khaldun

A

Set standards for the scientific study of history, urged historians to trust resources only after investigation

225
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Kublai Khan

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Genghis Khans grandson, took out the last Song emperor in 1279. He ruled from his capital Khanbaliq (present day Beijing) over all of china, Korea, and Tibet. His Dynasty was the Yuan dynasty

226
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Delhi

A

Capital that Sultan Ghur chose

227
Q

Where is Jerusalem located on a map?

A

By the red sea

228
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Mshah Abbas

A

Revived the glory of ancient Persia, made new CAPITAL Isfahan which became the center of international silk trade. It brought thousands of Armenians to it. The empire slowly collapsed after his death

229
Q

The black death

A

Plague that struck most of Europe. Took out one out of every three people. Worst death, even worse than any war in history

230
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Sikhism

A

A religion created by a man called Nanak in northern India

231
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Journeyman

A

JourneymenGuild members, salaried workers

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🌟John Gutenberg

A

Was the first man to have made a complete an edition of a bible using a printing press.

233
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Tang Dynasty

A

When the Sui dynasty began to fall, general Li Yuan’s 16 year old son Li Shimin urged him to revolt. Together they crushed all their rivals and established the Tang dynasty. Made land reform.

234
Q

Capital

A

Money for investment

235
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Sufis

A

Mystics who seek communication with god through meditation, fasting, and many other different rituals

236
Q

How many Pillars of Faith are there?

A

5

237
Q

The Treaty of Verdun

A

Charlemagne’s grandsons split the region into three parts

238
Q

Sacraments

A

Sacred rites of the church, they got you into heaven

239
Q

Patriarch

A

Highest church official in Constantinople.

240
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🌟Raphael

A

Is known for his blending of Christian and classical styles. He created the school of Athens painting, which portrayed many brilliant minds including Leonardo and Michelangelo

241
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Pagoda

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Multistoried temple dedicated to Buddhism

242
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Battle of Tours

A

732, it was a battle of Christians against Muslims. The Christians one, stopping the Muslims in their tracks

243
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Safavid dynasty

A

Began in the 1500’s, it united an empire in Persia. They were sandwiched between Mughal India and the ottoman empire.

244
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Tenant farmers

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People who paid rent for their land or hired farm laborers

World History (9 decks)

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