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The term Homo sapiens means

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“Wise human”

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What is a method used to determine the age of artifacts?

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Radiocarbon dating

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In this passage, Richard Leaky was describing an early human like creature that walked upright called a(n)

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Hominid

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The Paleolithic Age is

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The period in which humans used simple stone tools

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The real change in the Neolithic Revolution was the

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Shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture

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The ability to acquire food in a regular basis meant that humans

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Could give up their nomadic ways of life and begin to live in settled communities

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Anthropology is the study of

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Human life and culture

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The term “Homo erectus” means

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“Upright human”

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The use of fire by early humans reminds us that

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Sometimes they adapted by changing the environment, not themselves

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The six characteristics of civilizations are cities, government, _____, social structure, writing, and art

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Religion

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A government by divine authority is called

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A theocracy

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The process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting is called

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Mummification

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Farming in ancient Mesopotamia resulted in an abundance of food, which

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Enabled civilization to emerge

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Hammurabi is remembered for

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His law code, a collection of laws for Mesopotamia society

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Hieratic script, a simplified version of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, was used

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For business transactions, record keeping, and the general needs of daily life

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Cyrus the Great showed such wisdom and compassion when he conquered Babylon that

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Everyone accepted him as ruler

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Which leader of the Persian Empire extended it to become the largest empire the world has yet seen?

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Darius

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Which of the following elements contributed to the efficient system of communication that was crucial to sustaining the Persian Empire?

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Well-maintained roads and way stations that provided food, shelter, and fresh horses for the officials

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Modern historians have divided Egyptian history into three major periods know as

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The Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom

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What is the importance of the Phoenician alphabet?

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Basis for English alphabet

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The Aryans lived in tribal groups and had strong tradition of

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Being warriors

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This Indo-European written language was started by the early Aryans around 1000 B.C.

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Sanskrit

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In the Chinese culture, priests made these to communicate with the gods

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Oracle bones

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These are characters that combine two or more pictographs to represent an idea

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Ideograph

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This ruler was said to have “the chest of a bird of prey, the voice of a jackal, and the heart of a tiger”

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Qin Shihuangdi

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Who was Siddhartha Gautama?

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Founder of Buddhism

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The Silk Roda was a

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Trade route between the Roman Empire and China that ran through India’s Kushan Kingdom

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The Qin dynasty created the censorate, a part of the central bureaucracy that

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Had inspectors who checked on government officials to make sure they were doing their jobs

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One of the technological advances of the Han dynasty was

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The invention of water mills for grinding grain

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The first Han emperor discarded

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Legalism and adopted Confucianism

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The Mycenaeans were a group of people who prided themselves on their

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Heroic deeds in battle

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The period after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization is called the

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Dark Age

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The main gathering place in the Greek city-state at the top of a hill on a fortified area was called an

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Acropolis

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An Athenian family’s primary function was to

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Have children

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He was the chief go and after of the gods according to Greek religion

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Zeus

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After spending many years traveling and writing, the man pictured above founded an academy where he taught using the Socratic method

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Plato

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By 750 B.C., the _____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life

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Polis

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The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was

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Ruled by the few

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Which of the following happened at Thermopylae?

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A Greek force of 7,000 held off the Persian army of 180,000 for 2 days

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Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

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Sophocles

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By the end of the second century B.C., this group had become the governing body of the Roman state

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Senate

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During the third and second centuries B.C., Romans adopted features of this style of art

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Greek

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This Jewish prophet traveled and preached in Judaea and Galilee

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Jesus

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Diocletian and Constantine’s policies were based on

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Control and coercion

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In early Rome, praetors were in charge of these laws

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Civil

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Which of the following is a form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote?

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Republic

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Which of the following was a period of peace and prosperity that lasted almost 200 years?

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Pax Romana

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______ became the first Christian emperor

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Constantine

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The body of laws known as the _____ was one of Rome’s chief gifts to later generations

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Law of Nations

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The First Triumvirate was made up of the Roman Republic

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Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar

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Which of the following rulers created a dramatic growth in arts and sciences?

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The Abbasids

51
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What was Muhammad’s profession when he received his revelations?

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Caravan manager

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Which of the Five Pillars of Islam must be done five times each day?

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Prayer

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The Rubaiyat is a Muslim….

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Work of Literature

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Muhammad began to meditate in the hills because

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He became troubled by the gap between the honesty of most Makkans and the greediness of trading elites in the city

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After Muhammad’s death, Muslim scholars drew up the shari’ah, which is

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A law code that provides believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives

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It was through the Muslim world that Europeans

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Recovered the works of Aristotle Bx other Greek philosophers

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Omar Khayyan is most famous for

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His literary works, especially the Rubaiyat

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A crucial part of every Muslim city or town was the _____, which was a covered market

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Bazaar

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One of the Five Pillars of Islam, the hajj is

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A pilgrimage to Makkah

60
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King Ezana converted to

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Christianity

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The area of Africa that just into the Atlantic Ocean is the

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Hump of Africa

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Sleeping sickness is caused by

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The tsetse fly

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Islamic culture was spread in Mali by

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Mansa Musa

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Farming people’s who spoke dialects of the _____ family of languages moved into East Africa

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Bantu

65
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All members of a lineage group claimed descent from

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A common ancestor

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Most African women did all of the following except one. Which one?

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Tended cattle

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Slaves included all of the following EXCEPT

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Some criminals

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Most African societies believed in which of the following?

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A single creator god

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Which Chinese religion taught that the world was divided into a material world and a spiritual world, and that the goal of humans was to move from the material world into a union with Supreme Ultimate?

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Neo-Confucianism

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The Japanese word kamikaze means

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“Divine wind”

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Technological developments during the Tang Dynasty included

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Gunpowder

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As a result of trade, the city of Changan became

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The wealthiest city in the world

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The Mongols, led by Genghis Khan,

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Brought much of the Eurasian landmass under a single rule, creating the largest land empire in history

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The samurai of Japan were a new class of military servants whose purpose was to

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Protect the security and property of their employers

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Which two factors contributed to the failure of Kublai Khan’s invasion of Japan in 1281?

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The Kamakura shogunate and a massive typhoon that destroyed most of the invading fleet

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Followers of Theravada see Buddhism as

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A way of life

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In the Tang and Song Eras, the old landed aristocracy was replaced by the ____ as the political and economic elite of Chinese society

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Scholar-gentry

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Emperor Tang Xuanzang is remember for

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His devotion to a commoner’s daughter

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Which of the following is NOT a vow made by a monk who joins a monastery?

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Fitness

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Why was it necessary for a knight to have a very large horse? The horse needed to be able to

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Carry heavy armor

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Under Germanic law, if an accused person was unharmed after a physical trial, or _____, he or she was presumed innocent

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Ordeal

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Saint Benedict founded a community of monks that

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Established the basic form of monasticism in the Catholic Church

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The Carolingian Renaissance was

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A revival of learning and culture

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The Vikings were made part of European civilization by

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The Frankish policy of settling them and converting them to Christianity

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Which of the following was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold?

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Chivalry

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The Magna Carta was a document that

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Eventually was used to strengthen the idea that a monarch’s power was limited, not absolute

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Which if the following led the Muslim forces to retake Jerusalem from the crusaders?

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Saladin

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Under early Germanic law, a wrongdoer had to pay ____, or “money for a man,” to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed

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Wergild

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At which point in the guild system did a person work for no wages?

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Apprentice

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Which of the following languages would NOT be used in vernacular literature?

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Latin

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Which conflict resulted in the loss of political power by the Catholic Church?

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The Great Schism

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Which of the following was a heavy, wheeled plow with an iron plowshare?

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Carruca

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Dominic de Guzman believed the best way to attack heresy was

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The formation of a new religious order of men who lived lives of poverty and preached effectively

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The chief task of ____ was to harmonize Christian teachings with the worlds of the Greek philosophers

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Scholasticism

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Which of the following was written in the language of everyday speech in a particular region?

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Vernacular literature

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Joan of Arc brought the Hundred Years’ War to a decisive turning point by

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Inspiring the French with her faith

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Spain’s two strongest kingdoms—-Castile and Aragon—-were united when

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Isabella married Ferdinand

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Peasants were required to pay their local village church a tithe, which was

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10 percent of their produce

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Which on of the following Mesoamerican civilizations created a sophisticated writing system using hieroglyphics?

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Maya

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The Grand Council, an experiment in democracy, was

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A new way that the Iroquois could deal with their problems

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Which of the following lives in the Southwest, in present-day New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado?

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The Anasazi

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The Maya civilization was

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Composed of city-states, each governed by a hereditary ruling class

103
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The Aztec practiced human sacrifices in order to

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Delay the final destruction of the world

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Since the Inca lacked a writing system, they

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Kept records by using a system of knotted strings called the quipu

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The Aztec initially accepted the Spanish because

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They believed that the representatives of Quetzalcoatl had returned

106
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Which of the following was the supreme god of the Maya?

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Itzamma

107
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The Hopewell people’s are especially known for

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The earth mounds they built

108
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The Plains Indians used the buffalo for

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Food, clothing, tools, and shelter

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The Renaissance was all of the following EXCEPT

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The end of poverty

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The city-state that was led by a group of wealthy merchant-aristocrats was

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Venice

111
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Machiavelli encourages rulers and would-be rulers to believe that

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Human nature was self-centered

112
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The Renaissance artists of Northern Europe painted which of the following?

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Detailed books of illustrations

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All of the following are associated with painting during the High Renaissance EXCEPT

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Machiavelli

114
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Paintings and sculptors of the Renaissance were more

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Realistic

115
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Charles V ruled all of the following lands EXCEPT

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France

116
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The division of Christianity in Germany into Catholic and Lutheran states was recognized by which of the following?

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The Peace of Augsburg

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King Henry VIII did all of the following EXCEPT

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Conquer the lands in France

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The Anabaptists believed that

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Church and state should be separate

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The “fleets of the desert” were

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Camel caravans

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