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What is the largest continent

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Asia

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What is the largest dessert on earth

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Sahara

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The savannas brought grasslands started with small trees and shrubs make up what percentage of the continent of Africa

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40%

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What are Africa’s four distinct climate zones

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Mild, desert, rain forest, Savannah

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What percentage of the continent of Africa is covered by desert

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40%

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Christianity was the official religion of which kingdom by around ad. 300

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Axum

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Which new power located in present day Ethiopia was a major factor in the decline of the kush

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Axum

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Why was Axum so wealthy or prosperous

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Location on the Red Sea

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Which kingdom became one of the first great trading states in West Africa

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Ghana

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What animal was a crucial factor in African trade it across the Sahara for the berbers

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camel

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Manson Moussa transformed which city into a center of Islamic learning and culture

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Timbuktu

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Define matrilineal

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Decent traced through mother

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Y were ancestors a key element in African religion

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Believed to be closer to The gods

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What was used to pass along a communitys history In the absence of a written language

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Music/ storytelling

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Gun powder was a technological development during which dynasty

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Tans

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As a result of trade which ancient Chinese city became the wealthiest city in the world

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Changan

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Which group of people under which roller broke much of the Eurasian landmass under a single rule creating the largest land empire in history

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Mongals under ganhis khan

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In 1206 temujin was elected genghis khan after which he devoted himself to conquest and developed which empire

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Mongol empire

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Which philosophy was at the heart of the Chinese state government from this song dynasty to the 20th century

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Confusanism

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Feelings of insecurity after the collapse of the Han Dynasty lead the people of China to look at which two religions

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Buddhism and Daoism

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What was the strict code of conduct that was practiced by the samurai and similar to what the medieval European lights lived by

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bushido

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22
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Define kamikaze

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Divine uin

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What was the main purpose of the samurai

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Protect The security and property of their employers

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These people introduced Buddhism in Japan in the 6th century

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Buddist monks from China

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Which sect of Buddhism teaches enlightenment through self discipline and motivation
Zen
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Which Japanese religion includes a believe that peoples ancestors are present in the air around them
Shinto
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The Chinese model of society strongly influenced which similar nation nearby
Korea
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Why are most Muslim rulers in India tolerant of Hindus
They realized there was too many to convert
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Why did Theravada Buddhism become the religion of the masses in Southeast Asia
Tolerated local gods and was not a threat to other religions
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What is described as an ordeal
Act where a person is unharmed after a physical trial
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What community of monks did Saint Benedict form
Basic Monastitism of the Catholic Church
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What vows are taken by monks when they enter the monastery
Chassidy, obedience, poverty
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Who were the Missi dominici
Two men sent out to ensure the kings rule was carried out
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Why do knights have large horses
Support their heavy armor
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What is a vassalage
Swore loyalty to the Lord who took care of their needs
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What is the best gift a Lord can give a vassal
Land
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What is the code of ethics followed by nights
Chivalry
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Who takes care of the Lords land while he is away at war or court
Lads of the castle
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What did William of Normandy do in 1066
Invaded England and defeated King Harold at the battle of Hastings
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What was the purpose of the Magna Carta
Limit power of the kings, kings power was not absolute
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Which kingdom did Vikings assimilate with Slavs
Russia
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Why did Cyril create the Cyrillic alphabet
Read he bible in Cyril
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What was the capital of the eastern Roman empire
Constantinople
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What cultures did the byzantine empire see themselves as guardians of
Greece and Rome
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What was the main dispute between eastern orthodox and Catholic
Rule and pope
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Up to the 12th-century where was the emperor’s greatest center of commerce located
Constantinople
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What were some of the things nights and merchants brought back from western Europe to the east
wealth and goods
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Who led Muslims to retake Jerusalem from the crusaders
Saladin
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How are serfs different from peasants
Serfs are legally bound to the land, the peasants worked
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Define tithe
10% of their produce
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How many people in Europe were served by 800
60%
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What or who was the bourgeoisie
Merchants and artisans living in walled cities
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Which members of the guild system worked for no wages, just experience
apprentice
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What is lay investiture
Secular rulers who choose the church officials and gave them their symbols
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The investiture controversy surrounded mainly around what
Supremics of the Church or state
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what was the inquisition
Court created by Catholics to try and convict heretics
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What is the chief task of scholasticism
Harmonize Christian teachings with the works of Greek
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What is the vernacular literature
Every day speech of a particular region
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What were the consequences of the black death
Hey secure economic depression, 38 million people died
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How was the bubonic plague spread
Through rats
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What happened to the Catholic Church after the great Schism
The loss of political power
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What did Joan of arc inspire the French people with during the Hundred Years’ War
Inspired them with faith
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What was a result of the reign of Henry VIII in England
Strong royal goverment
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Why were Muslims and Jews kicked out of Spain
Religious unity
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Da vinci was a Renaissance man, what does this mean
He was a painter architect inventor and mathematician
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What were the characteristics of a noble
Warrior who followed a strict code, born not made, interested in arts
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Why were marriages arranged
To strengthen family and business ties
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What was a mother’s role in the traditional Italian family
Supervise the household
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Who was the father of humanism
Patriarch
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What did the humanist movement have an effect on
Education
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Who are the greatest artists of the high Renaissance
Da vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo
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What did the Christian humanists believe
The people who read the classics, especially Basic Christian works, would become more prosperous
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What did the 95 theses do
Attacked the abuse of the church/ indugences
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Lutheranism was the first what
First Protestant faith
75
Calvin and Luther agreed on most everything except what
Pre destination
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Define Commonwealth
Another name for republic
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James I believed in the divine right of kings what is this
Idea that the king was from God and got the power from God
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What group of protestants in England were influence by Calvin
Puritans
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Because Oliver Cromwell’s army defeated the Kings what was he able to do
Take control of England and set up a military dictatorship
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What is absolutism
Idea that he ruler has absolute power
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What famous thinkers ideas had a powerful influence on the u.s.
John Locke
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What were the three natural rights that John Locke believed all humans had
Life, liberty, property
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What was the first person to argue this song, not the earth, was at the center of the universe
Copernicans
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What didn’t newtons universal law of gravitation mathematically prove
One law could explain all motion in the universe
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What was the Rene descartes Philosophical “
Rene desczte
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How does John Locke believe people’s minds are molded
By their experiences
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Who believed that all people were born with a Tabula Rasa
John Locke
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What did it Voltaire compare the universe to
A clock
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What was Montesquieu’s most lasting contribution to political thought
Government system of checks and balances
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Define laissez-faire
Believe that the state shouldn’t regulate the economy
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What was rousseu’a social contract
Society needs to be governed by its general will
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What was the name for the style of government used by the monarchs during the enlightenment
Enlightened absolutism
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Where did the seven years War take place
Europe, North America, and India
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What happened as a result of the treaty of Paris in 1763
Great Britain became the worlds greatest colonial power
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Which country was the first to grant diplomatic recognition to America
France

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