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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did people adapt to the Arabian desert? | They traded, herded, and moved from place to place |
| How did people adapt to the oasis? | They traded and settled there |
| people who moved from place to place | nomads |
| groups of people related to each other | clans |
| why was the Arabian peninsula well suited to trade? | it connected three continents |
| Muhammad | founder of islam |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| 5 pillars | faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage |
| how did the Umayyads unify the empire? | language, money, and pilgrimage |
| advancements in the abbasid dynasty | numbers, medicine, house of wisdom |
| standing army | always controls empire |
| battle of tours | the abbasids were defeated by the franks |
| al antulus and cordoba-leading cities | paved streets and rich economy |
| savannah | grassland with scattered trees |
| why rivers were important, name main river | water, fertile land, trade and transporation |
| wealthy kings | taxing trade |
| salt-gold trade | salt was needed in west, gold wanted in north |
| mansa musa voyage | to show off, attract scholars |
| griot | African storyteller |
| kinship to kingdom | urbanization |
| religion of Berbers | Islam |
| Islam's influence | leaders converted to Islam, spread Arabic |
| Mali capital | Timbuktu |
| large African desert | Sahara |
| Traded to Kongo from Portugal | guns, horses and manufactured goods for slaves |
| King Afonso | cut off trade from portugal |
| Country bordering China to the north | Mongolia |
| Why did China trade by sea? | land was harder to get through |
| types of people in the beureaucracy | aristocrats, scholars, foreigners |
| civil service exam | test scholars had to be in the beureaucracy |
| China's discoveries in middle ages | gunpowder, compass, paper money |
| why did China use paper money? | limitless supply; lighter |
| population of China growing | new rice, better farming |
| why were the Mongols able to conquer China? | They were nomadic |
| Why did Kublai Khan appoint foreigners? | so the Chinese did not have too much power |
| Ming dynasty-why was it powerful? | Great wall, forbidden city |
| causes for fall of roman empire | invasions, weak rulers, empire split |
| Leader and tribe that conquered Rome in 486 | Clovis (franks) |
| eastern Roman empire | Byzantine |
| split in christian churches | schism |
| leader in the Roman catholic church | pope |
| Catholic pyramid | Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, monks/nuns |
| reasons for powerful Catholic church | united Europe, peace, key to afterlife, pope had more power than king |
| King of Franks that unified western Europe | Charlemagne |
| Group from Scandinavia that terrorized Europe for 3 centuries | vikings |
| Feudal pyramid | king, nobles, knights, peasants |
| Why did people fight in crusades? | to get back holy land |
| Black death | deadly plague that ran through Europe and central asia |
| Rebirth | Renaissance |
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