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Semester 2 Final Flashcards

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Major contributions of Islam

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Arabic numbers, medical advances, hospitals, trigonometry

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Who saved Justinian’s rule after the Nika revolt

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Empress Theodora

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To ensure strength of Christianity in the east, john chrysostom

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Destroyed pagan temples and stole Mary theotokos from Ephesus

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Athens won a shocking victory against the Persians at

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Marathon

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Women in Greece had the most powerful influence in

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Religion

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Alexander the Great organized this to spread Greek influence

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Marriages between his soldiers and local people

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These separated Greeks and made them fiercely independent

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Mountains- the alps

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This ruler instituted land and debt slavery reforms

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Solon

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Volcanic eruptions on this island contributed to the downfall of the Minoan civilization

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Thera

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A great leader during the Persian war, ostracized from Rome

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Themistocles

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These we’re build by Servius Tullius to guard Rome against invaders

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Servian walls

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He built the parathanon and led during the Peloponnesian war

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Pericles

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The spread of Greek culture around the world

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Hellenism

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A group of about 6000 soldiers

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Legion

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Roman emperor who was laughed at all the time but liked by historians

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Claudius

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Islamic house of wisdom is located in

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Baghdad

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This was an unwritten agreement between a lord and his castellan

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A feudal contract

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He defeated a Muslim army at the battle of tours

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Charles Martel

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He argued against Philip of Macedons intentions in the philippics

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Demosthenes

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He won costly victories and used elephants

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King Pyrrhus of Epirus

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This helped the spread of knowledge

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Paper

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Social classes in a medieval town

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Populo grosso and populo minuto

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Vestal Virgins had the power to do this

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Free a condemned man

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Islamic empire founded this wealthy city in Spain

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Cordoba

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Islamic empire spread quickly because…

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Other empires were weak, allowed their conquered to self govern, no clergy, good military tactics

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Spartan slVes

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Helots

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Court set up to try people accused of heresy

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Inquisitions

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The lesser known member of the first triumvirate

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Lepidus

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Goth that sacked Rome

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Alaric

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Unreadable Minoan language

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Linear A

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He wrote dialogues and the republic

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Plato

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He created the Greek system of democracy

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Cleisthenes

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The vandal who became emperor and contributed to the fall of Rome

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Odacer

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An unsuccessful movement by the church designed to stop noble violence

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Peace and truce of god

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Peasant tied to land was a

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Serf

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Reason for growth of Europe

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Population growth

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He wrote the Canterbury tales that spread light on medieval life

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Chaucer

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Courtesy books

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Rules for knights to follow

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Most Vikings did this to make a living

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Farming

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This mountain range provided for better weather in Rome

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The alps

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Stoic philosopher and wise emperor of Rome

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Marcus Aurelius

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A roman father has the right to

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Kill his children

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A great general that led Augustus’s troops to victory

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Agrippa

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Roman republic ruled bun

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2 consuls

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A rich businessman who created the first fire department

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Crassus

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Rome was looted and burned by them early in its history

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Gauls

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Roman law and government were greatly influenced by the

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Etruscans

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These people started a dark age in Greece

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Dorians

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At a young age spartan boys were sent here for military training

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Barracks

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These were ways Spartans closed their society and retained control of their way of life

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Refused to use coinage, suppressed artwork, limited speech, strict laws

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Overseers of daily spartan life

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Ephors

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