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94 Cards in this Set
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Government of England -
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Government of France -
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Parliament -
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Limited Monarchy -
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takes place in England
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gov't which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's power
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Absolute Monarchy -
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Estates General -
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Decline of Serfdom -
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Domesday Book
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Magna Carta -
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Guild System -
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Dangers of Medieval Towns
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Crusades -
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Reconquest -
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Infidel -
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Joan of Arc
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- Led french armies against the english at age 17
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eventually burned at the stake for witchcraft
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Black Death -
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Dante -
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Italin poet
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dante's inferno
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Pope Urban II
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Saladin -
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Why did Germany remain a weak nation during the Middle Ages?
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- German Nobles became very independent
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German people paid a high price for their emperor's ambitions
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Byzantine Empire
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- Eastern Roman Empire
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Lasted another 1000 yrs after fall of Rome
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Silk Road
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Justinian -
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Justinian’s Code of Laws-
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– Revised all Roman Laws
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Basis of modern legal systems today
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Hagia Sophia -
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(Holy Wisdom)
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In shape of Greek Cross
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Byzantine Christianity-
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Ghenghis Khan -
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Vlad Tepes-
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Vlad the Impaler
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Prince of Wallachia – Transylvanian, Romania
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Elizabeth Bathory -
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True Vampire
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Bathe and drank blood of peasant girl
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Minaret -
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Harem -
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Caliph-
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Jihad-
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Mosque
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Hajj -
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Sunni -
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Sufi -
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Shiites -
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Umayyads
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Describe the Islamic World. -
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Five Pillars of Islam-
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Quran -
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What led to the decline of the Caliphate? -
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Seljuk Truk invasion
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Mongul Invasion
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What two items dominated trade on the Sahara Trade Routes?
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Great Zimbabwe -
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Big ruins
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measn " great stone buildings
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Griot -
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Desertification-
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What civilization had walled cities which helped them expand their commercial centers? -
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Mansas -
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Slash and Burn -
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African Climate zones
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Tang Dynasty -
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Conquered lands in Vietnam and Korea = Tributary States
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Had confuncian ideas
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Song Dynasty -
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Controlled less territory than Tang
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Under constant threat of invasion
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Hangul -
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Japan -
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chain of tiny islands
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frequent earthquakes and tsunamis
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Korea -
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Mountainous region
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people lived on the coasts
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Kamikaze -
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Tributary States
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- Vietnam and Korea
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part of Tang Dynasty
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Literacy Rate in Korea
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Archipelago
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Pennisula -
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Yamoto Clan
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Heian Period
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Bushido -
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Japanese Feudalism -
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Marco Polo -
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Italian
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Spent 17 years under Kublia Kahn
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Renaissance
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- “Rebirth” or “reawakening” of the classical culture of Greece and Rome
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Humanism -
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focus on worldly objects not divine things
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Scientific Revolution
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- Changing view of the universe
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Galileo proved Copernicus right proving heliocentric universe
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Protestant Reformation
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- The catholic church got involved in wordly affairs
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sold indulgences
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Vernacular
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