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History
History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alexios I Kemnenos | Byzantine emperor at time of the first crusade |
| Axum | ancient town in northern Ethiopia powerful trading empire able to control trade in and out of much of africa |
| Aztec | adapted to their environment filled in marshes for more land conqurerd surrounding areas= empire |
| Battle of Tours | battle stopped the norhtward advance of Islam from Spain |
| Black Death | caused by bacterium Y pestis ravaged btw 1347-1351 |
| Blood Tanistry | kill all oher leaders/ competions to become king royal dynasty should inherit the throne, by murder and war |
| Bubonic Plague | infections disease caused by the bacterium Y pestis most commonly occuring type of plague |
| Pneumonic | Lungs become infeced with the bacteria that cause plague respiratory droplets |
| Septicemic | bateria enters bloodstream untreated forms of bubonic or preumonic plague |
| Byzantine Empire | eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various kingdons |
| Cahokia | human-built earth work mounds; econmic hub for Mississippi cultures |
| Charlemagne | king of Franks 768 introduced jury system |
| Chinggis Kan | united the many different tribes in Mongolia under a single government |
| Columbia Exchange | widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, slaves, disease, and ideas betwwen the Western and Eastern Hemispheres |
| Crusades | series of religious wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church |
| Ethnocentrism | judging another culture solely by the vaulesand standards of ones own culture |
| Anda | royality odes- similar to blood tanistry |
| Bantu | people of acient Africa divided into 400 language and bananas |
| Dar-al-Islam | house of Islam |
| Ghana, Mali, Songhay | 3 rich empires |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | writes about the plague; how bodies were stacked into piles |
| Ibn Battuta | travels trade routes and keeps records; critiques different practives of Islam |
| Kinship Society | |
| Maize | orginated in the Americas, highland of Mexico; easy to maintain |
| Mansa Kankan Musa | emperor of Mail; goes to Mecca; collagses economies |
| Marco Polo | Venetian mercahng and adventurer; travled form Europe to Asia in 1271-95 |
| Moctezuma | last emperor of the Aztecs; let the Spainsh take over the Aztec city |
| Ottoman Empire | one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries; included most of southeastern Europe |
| Pope Urban II | head of Roman Catholic church who developed ecclesiastical reforms and launched the Crusade movement |
| Princes Crusade | military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the holy lands taken in the muslim conquests |
| Reconquista | a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from Muslims; Ibarian Peninsula in the early 8th century |
| Siege of Caffa | Moguls come down with the plague; sent their dead over the walls and plague went everywhere: those objects got loaded onto boats and plague spread |
| Silk Roads | trade= spread of ideas |
| Tenochitlan | Aztec capital by late 15th century; was originally two small islands and Aztecs built up marshes to make one island |
| The Affair of Khwarasmshah | Mongol conquest starts by cutting off beard of messenger; pours gold into eyes, ears, and mouth |
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