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21 Cards in this Set
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Berbers
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a group of people from northern africa
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Hajj
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A pilgrimage to mecca
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Mosques
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Building for Muslim prayers
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Mansa Musa
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Mali's most famous ruler
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Askia the Great
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One of Songhai's greatest rulers
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Reason
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Clear and ordered thinking
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Democracy
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A form of government in which people rule themselves
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Knights
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Warriors who fought on horseback
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Black Death
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A series of plagues spread by rats that killed about 25 million people in Europe.
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Joint-Stock Companies
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Businessess in which a group of people invest together
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Socrates
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a Greek philosopher that wanted people to think and question their beliefs.
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Plato
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Wrote a book describing an ideal societybased on justice and fairness for everyone.
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Aristotle
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Taught that people should live lives bades on reason.
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Michelangelo and Leonardo de Vinci
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2 of the Renaissance's greatest artists
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Johannes Gutenburg
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developed a printing press that used a movable type.
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Renaissance
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the rebirth period of Europe
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Merchantilism
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econonomic system that unifies and increases the power and wealth of a nation.
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Bering Land Bridge
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a strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged from underwater around 38,000 BC
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Paleo-lndians
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the first Americans who crossed from Asia into North America sometime between 38,000 and 10,000 BC
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migration
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the movement of people from one region to another
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hunter-gatherer
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a person who hunts animals and gathers wild plants to provide for his or her needs
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