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15 Cards in this Set
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Silk Road
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as classical empires expanded, merchants and travellers created an extensive network of trade routes linking but of Eurasia and north Africa (maritime and overland); called this because silk was being traded between Romans and Chinese
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Monsoon winds
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governed sailing and shipping in the Indian Ocean; blew from southwest in summer and northeast in winters-made travelling the ocean easier and safer
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spices
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traveled from southeast Asia by caravan to Hellenistic cities and ports (cloves, nutmeg, mace, and cardamom); used for drugs, anesthetics, aphrodisiacs, perfumes, aromatics, and magical potions
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merchants as missionaries
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merchants carried their religions throughout the lands and made monastaries and etc so natives slowly picked up on it
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Paul of Tarsus
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devout Jew who accepted Christian teachings and became a missionary trying to find converts; principal figure in the development of Christianity from a Jewish sect to an independent religion
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Nestorians
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followers of the Greek theologian Nestorius-emphasized the human rather than the divine nature of Jesus
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Yellow Turban Rebellion
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peasant rebellion in 184 CE against the Hans
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Tetrarchs
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group of four powerful individuals that could adminitster the Roman empire better than an individual emperor could
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Constantine
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son of Diocletian's co-ruler; reunited the west and east empires
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Constantinople
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city Constantine built as a capital of the Roman empire, untied empire
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Byzantine Empire
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eastern half of the Roman empire after fifth century CE
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Edict of Milan (312 CE)
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allowed Christians to practie their faith openly in the Roman empire
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Huns
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aggressively migrated to the east empire, placed pressure on societies around Roman borders-those societies streamed into the Roman empire and weren't resisted so they took over in the west
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St. Augustine
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most important of intellectual elites taking an interest in Christianity- worked to reconcile Christianity with Greek and Roman philosophical tradition
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Institutional Church
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to standardize faith, Christian constructed an institutional apparatus that transformed a popular religion of salvation into a powerful church
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