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30 Cards in this Set
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camel caravan
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A.D.200 created new trade networks
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savanna
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grassy plain with irregular patterns of rainfall
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desertification
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fertile or semidesert land becomes desert
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Livingstone and Stanley
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1896 - 1871. Inferiors of Africa
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Equiano
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former slave. 1789
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Thomas Clarkson
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firey organizer of the antislavery movement
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William Wilberforce
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member of the British parliament and led the battle against slave trade
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Justinian
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527 to 565
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Ottoman Turks
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Conquered Byzantine in 1453
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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1520 - 1566
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janizaries
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elite force of ottoman army
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Safavid empire
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1588 - 1629. Abbas reduced tax on farmers to reform.
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Muhammad
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570 - 632
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Fatima and Ali
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4th caliph, died in 661
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caliph
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successor to Muhammad
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Abu Bakr
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caliph in 700's
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Sunni and Shiite split
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632. Sunni was for Muslim and Shiite was for generation.
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jihad
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effort in god's service
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sharia
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applies Quran to all legal solutions
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minaret
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slender tower of mosque
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Muhammad ali
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1805 - 1849
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the white man's burden
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1899
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shooting an elephant
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1936
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berlin conference
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1884 to avoid bloodshed
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article 34
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inform and claim land
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article 35
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show proof
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shaka "king of zulus"
Boers - dutch farmers |
1787 - 1828 and in 1833 slavery was outlawed
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Sepoy rebellion
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1857
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Indian Nationalism
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ending imperial rule
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Indian National congress
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1885 (self rule)
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