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28 Cards in this Set
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BLACK DEATH |
Great epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged, Europe, East Asia, an North Africa in the 14th Century, killing perhaps as many as 1/3 of the European population. |
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
Of Macedonia 356-323 BCE; tutored by Aristotle; Unified Greece; Conquered the Persian Empire |
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ASOKA/ASHOKA |
Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled & united most of the Indian subcontinent from 269-232 BCE via his military conquests; Embraced peaceful Buddhism later in life. |
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QIN DYNASTY (NOT QING DYNASTY OF LATER HISTORY) |
1st Imperial dynasty of China; 221-206 BC; Conquered 6 dynasties and the Zhou dynasty from the Warring States period; united the Great Wall of China; 1st in currency, wts&measures standardization, uniform writing established; burning of books & burying of scholars; did not last long led to Han Dynasty |
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XIONGNU |
Ancient Eurasian Nomad of Mongolia; confederate/state; Powerful; from E Asian steppe/Mongolia; during the late Zhou dynasty 209 BC - 93 AD |
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Julius Caesar |
Roman General 100-44 BCE A great orator; author of Latin prose; ruthless military man; Campaigns bragged he killed over a million people; Invaded Britain; rose to power in civil war; created social and govt reforms; Ides of March he was assassinated by Brutus |
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CONSTANTINE |
Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity in 312 CE; gave freedoms to Christians in the Edict of Milan; Founded the New Rome: Constantinople |
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BANTU MIGRATIONS |
SE Nigerian peoples 1000 CE; expanded in two waves; 1st spread S & W had iron works and bananas, and were prosperous; 2nd wave spread S past the Congo rain-forest into the Kalahari; they were met by tsetse fly that killed off their livestock; |
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SASANIAN EMPIRE |
Last Iranian empire before Muslim conquest; controlled trade crossroads; strong armored cavalry; rivals to Rome; Religious tolerance; Shahanshah/King of Kings |
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ABBASID DYNASTY |
Golden Age of Islamic Civilization; Caliphate ruled; largest empire of the world 750-1258 AD; Baghdad its capital; embraced Persian culture; house of wisdom; great works translated into Arabic; Emirs/Independent Governors; wiped out by Mongols |
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SHIITES/SHIA ISLAM |
Followers of Ali and his descendants; Imams; 2nd lg denomination of Islam; followers of the Quran; |
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CHARLEMAGNE/ CHARLES THE GREAT |
W European Ruler/Heir to Rome 764-814 CE; King of the Franks/Carolingian Empire; Dethroned the Lombards from Italy; Led incursion into Muslim Spain; Campaigned against the Saxons; Forced Christianity; Imperial capital: Aachen (in Germany) |
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MANSA MUSA |
King of Kings/Emperor of the wealthy Mali Empire 1280-1337; Muslim; pilgrimage to Mecca of 60k men; 12k slaves; gold, silks, horses, 80 camels and many stories of his imparting his wealth to others on his pilgrimage which created inflation and then controlled it by borrowing it back at high interest |
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DELHI SULTANATE |
Muslim Kingdom 1206-1526; 5 dynasties ruled sequentially Mughals replaced them; Mamluk a former slave became wealthy and overtook others to became 1st sultan, drove the Crusaders out of the Levant; Cultural diversity and religious tolerance; political integration, no cultural homogeneity. |
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FEUDALISM |
System instituted in medieval Europe after the collapse of the Carolingian Empire 814 CE; Peasants were under the authority of a Lord; Nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles; peasants/villeins/serfs were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, in exchange the lords provided military protection. |
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POPE URBAN II |
Initiated the 1st Crusade; set up Gregorian reforms; opposed Emperor Henry IV; Brought Campania (Naples area) and Sicily from Byzantine into Catholic sphere |
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PEOPLE'S CRUSADE |
Led by Peter the Hermit; Prelude to the first crusade; was after the Pogroms of the summer; destroyed by the Seljuk Turks; 20k crusaders; set about to free Jerusalem from the Muslims |
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KUBILAI KHAN |
Mongolian general and statesman; 1st emperor of the Mongols; 1260-1294; founder of the Yuan dynasty(Mongolia/China/Korea, etc.) Tibetan Buddhist. |
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OTTOMAN EMPIRE |
Turkish empire; Sunni Islamic State 1299; Osman I of Anatolia; Caliphate/sultanate overthrew Byzantine empire; Suleiman the Magnificent; multinational/multilingual empire WWI destroyed it and Turkey resulted |
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HUMANISM |
Renaissance aspiration to know more about the human experience beyond what the Christian scriptures offered by reaching back into ancient Greek and Roman texts. |
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Compare and contrast growth and development of Han dynasty China & Roman Empire's political and military institutions. |
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Describe the connections between the growing power of Christianity andthe political changes in the Roman Empire.
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Describe the empire that the Mongols created in the thirteenth century.How did their policies promote greater contact across Eurasia?
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Explain how the Black Death spread throughout Afro-Eurasia in thefourteenth century.
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Using several examples from across the world, support the argument thatreligion was a major positive force in world history. Identify specificphilosophical and religious developments to support your argument.
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Throughout world history, nomadic peoples and the migration of peopleshave played a very important role. On the basis of at least 4 examples, discussthe impact that each had on the “civilized” regions of the world
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1. Mongols:
2. Vedic Peoples 3. Bedouins 4. Bantu |
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During most of world history, the inhabitants of the major regions ofthe world had little knowledge of each other. By about AD 1400, however, thissituation had changed. Identify the technological, political, economic, andreligious forces that helped bring this transformation about.
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-Henry the Navigator -Gutenberg Press: quick way to print/Bible |
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Discuss the role of empires in world history. How would you define anempire? How did empires develop? Describe at least three empires; one from theancient world, one from the classical world, and one from the medieval world.
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1. Group of states/ethnic groups under a single sovereign power.2. HittiteEmpire/Anatolian Hatti people/Chariot military/bronze age threatened Egypt & Israelite; Cuneiform diplomatic & commercial correspondence elaborate temples; spread into Syria & Levant; 3. RomanEmpire civil wars = Julius Caesar:Dictator. 500 yrs of imperial empire; Pax Roman/200 yrs ofpeace fell to Ottoman Turks in 1453 after beingworn down by Germans & Huns 4.
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