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Black Death
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The Bubonic plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350, and killing between 75 million and 200 million people.
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Mongols
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The Mongols became roving horsemen because they needed to migrate several times a year in search of grass and water for their ponies and livestock. They also became highly skilled warriors because they competed persistently with other tribes for access to the grasslands.
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Silk Road
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The label actually refers to a network of caravan trails connecting china with western Asia and Europe through the Taklimakan, one of the most inhospitable deserts on earth. Travelers had little choice but to pick their way from oasis to oasis across central Asia. On the eastern and western edges of this vast territory the civilizations of China and the West developed, and the Silk Road connected them.
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Ghazis
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Warriors for Islam devoted to destroying polytheists, including Christians.
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Ottomans
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Among the Turkish peoples the most successful state builders were the Ottomans. The Ottoman dynasty ruled for more than 600 years, until 1924.The ottoman state was built not on national, linguistic, or ethnic unity, but on a purely dynastic network of personal and military loyalties to the Ottoman prince called the sultan.
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Workers' Rebellion
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In 1378 a crowd rebelled yelling "Long live the people, long live liberty" they broke into houses of prominent citizens, released political prisoners from the city jails, sacked the rich covenants that housed the pampered daugthers of the wealthy. Over the next few months the rebels managed to force their way onto the city council, demanding tax and economic reforms.
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100 Years' War
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1337-1453. was a struggle over England's attempts to assert its claims to territories in France. The conflict drained resources from the French and English aristocracies, deepening and lengthening the economic depression.
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Joan of Arc
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The English needed to show stage a show trial to demonstrate to their own demorialized forces that Joans remarkable victories resulted from witchcraft rather than military superiority. In English trial, Joan testified that she was merely responding to spiritual vocies she heard that commanded her to wear mens clothing. On the basis of her cross dressing, the ecclesiastical tribunal declared her a witch and a relapsed heretic. The court sentenced her to be burned at the stake.
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Reminders of Death/Dance of Death
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The reminders of death was a theme found in religious books, literary works, and the visual arts. Reminder of death became the everyday theme of preachers, and popular woodcuts represented death in simple but disturbing images. The reminder of death tried to encourage by showing that in everyone's future was neither riches, nor fame, nor love, nor pleasure, but only the decay of death.The most famous reminder of death was the dance of death appearing in a poem in 1376.
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