Global Studies

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The first people to make iron and use it in the production of tools and weapons.

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Hittites

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The greatest trading people of the ancient Middle East were the?

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Phoenicians

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The most important Phoenician contribution to our civilization was the?

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Alphabet

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The first people to believe in one God, monotheism, were the?

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Hebrews

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The Hebrew leader who forced Pharaoh Ramses II to free the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt was?

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Moses

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The chief crop of nearly all the peoples of ancient Amreica was?

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Corn/Maize

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As the chief god who brought water to their crops, the Olmecs worshipped the?

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Jaguar

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Olmec temples were made of hardened clay and resembled the?

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Pyramids of the Egyptians

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The Olmec civilization produced?

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A counting and measuring system, an accurate calendar, and a system of writing.

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Many of the tribes of North America developed apart fromeach other because?

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The land was so huge.

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When Chaterine the Great ruled Russia

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The condidtions of the serfs worsened.

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As a result of the edict of Potsdam

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The French Huguenots were welcomed in Prussia.

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To maintain his power, Fredrick Wiliam I of Prussia

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Restricted the peasants' freedom.

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Before Peter the Great ruled Russia

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The country was more influenced by Asian customs than those of Western Europe.

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Frederick William I and Catherine the Great were considered to be "enlightened desposts" because they

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Were absolute rulers who used their authority t help their people.

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One of the main parts of Chinese religion was ?, which involved honoring members of the family who had lived in the past.

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Ancestor Worship

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One of the achievements of the ancient Chinese was the invention of?

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Calligraphy

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a central idea of Confucius's teachings was ?, a belief that children must honor their parents and all older family members.

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Filial Piety

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The Chinese view of government in which dynasties received their power from the gods was called the?

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Mandate of Heaven

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One of the crops the ancient Chinese cultivated was?

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Millet

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It was common for most Chinese farm families to live in an ? living arrangement.

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Extended family.

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The period of fighting among the kingdoms of China and the growing weakness of the Chou dynasty was called the?

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Years of the Warring States.

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The earliest people of Japan are believed to have come from mainland?

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Asia

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The early Japanese people divided themselves into ?, which were groups of families that were related to each other.

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Clans

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The religion of early Japan was based on the worship of ?, or anything sacred or special in nature.

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Kami

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By 800 A.D., the Fujiwara held the real power in Japan and not the ?

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Emperors

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In Japan, government by supreme military governors or ? lasted until the nineteethe century.

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Shoguns

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Ociania was settled when people ? from island to island after the Ice Age.

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Migrated

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The explorations of ? added much to the European knowledge of the Pacific.

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Cook

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Australia was first settled by?

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Aborigines

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After the explorers, British ? came to settle and found towns in Austrailia.

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Convicts

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? was one of the last islands in Oceania to be settled because it is the furthes East.

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Easter Island

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Young men in acient Athens could learn philosophy from traveling teachers called?

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sophists

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The period in which Greek and eastern cultures came together after the death of Alexander is called the ? age.

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Hellanistic

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In the early days of the Roman Republic, all government offices were held by ?, who were members of old and wealthy Roman families.

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Patricians

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Highly trained ? sometimes fought to the death in Rome's huge amphitheaters.

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Gladiators

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The ?, an Asian tribe led by by Attila, pushed the Visigoths deeper into Roman territory.

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Huns

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a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water is called a?

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Strait

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The crusaders call Turkish Mulsims ?

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Infidel

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? is the practice of selling church offices.

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Simony

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The Vikings used ? to attack from the sea.

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Longships

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Hagia Sophia is one of the finest examples of ? architecture.

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Byzantine

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Pictues made of small pieces of colored stone, glass, and tile are called ?

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Mosaics

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The late Middle Ages saw the basis for power change from land to ?

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Money

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Justinian's goal was to bring together the eastern and western pars of the old ? Empire.

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Roman

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The tax on the earnings of all the people in a parish was called a ?

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Tithe

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Peasants in the Middle Ages usually were slaves, freemen, or ?

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Serfs

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? is a combined language of the Indians and Muslims.

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Urdu

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The Mongul Empire reached its Golden Age under ?

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Akbar

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Shah Jahan built the ? for his wife.

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Taj Mahal