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94 Cards in this Set

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