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What caused the collaspe of the Roman Empire? |
It became too large and hard to govern. Germanic tribe and other invaders. Financial problems. Poor decisions by leaders |
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What forces led to the spread of religions |
Cultural diffusion. Encounters between religions. Other religions spread without problems |
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What were the effects of interregional trade |
Led to the exchange of culture and technology. Led to water based trade routes. Gunpowder, and paper were exchanged. Also spread the plague |
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What are the characteristic of the Mongol Empire? |
Supported the establishment of important trade networks. They relied on military power. Mongols tolerated diverse cultures. Mongols became more powerful they became a challenge to China. They eventually overthrew the chinese emperor |
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What were the causes and consequences of the plague |
The cause was from the many trade routes. It was a bacterial disease spread by fleas living on rats. Killed a large percent of Europe. Xenophoic behaviors by leaders |
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What were the characteristics of the Islamic Empires |
It's expansion was military and religious as well as cultural and politcal. It spread because of neighboring empires(Byzantine and Persian) were weak. Islamic maintained the cultural and intellectual traditions of the Classic empires as well as making advances in areas like Math,Medicine and Astronomy |
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What were the characteristics of pre-columbian American civilzations. |
Diversity. Many North American societies were hunter gatherers, Central and South America were home to great agriculture-based civilizations like the Aztecs, The Incas, and the Mayans |
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What was the Magna Carta? |
It was a document that the King of England was forced to sign in the 13th century that limited powers to the king. |
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What were the results of European exploration and Conquest of the Americas? |
The destruction of Native American people and Cultures. Exchange of New Plants, Animals, ideas, technology, and diseases. |
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Why was there a Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |
The desire of Europeans to use their new American's to grow cash crops. This led Europeans to bring over Africans and ensalved them to work on plantation |
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what was the Triangalar trade |
The triangular trade refers to the three sided trade routes that went from Europe to Africa to the Americas. Made for slave uses |
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What was the Ottoman Empire |
Turkish Muslim people who eventually conquered and settled in modern day Turkey. Helped spread Islam |
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What is Enlightenment? |
Enlightenment led to the use of Scientific method and to new political ideas that were used by revolutionaries. Enlightenment were Voltaire,Decartes,Hobbes and Locke |
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What was the Industrial Revolution? |
Began in England. Powered by coal and steam engine. Manufactured goods became cheaper and more plentiful |
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what was Imperialism |
Refers to the practice of empire building among European Nations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The industrialization of Europe led to the need for a new sources of the natural resources necessary to fuel these industries.It also gave Europe the military power to conqure much of the world |
