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Midterm Review

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What is the holy book and leader of religious services for Islam?   Quran is the holy book, and the leader of religious services is Imam  
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WHat do Muslims believe about Muhammad?   He was the last and greatest prophet  
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Explain one way in which Islam is similar to Judaism and Christianity.   They all teach the same ethical values, are monotheistic, and have the same basic founder  
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What is the key difference between then Sunni and the Shiites?   How their leader is chosen= Shiites - bloodline relative, Sunni - Any male religious Muslim from Muhammad's tribe  
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How can Muslim centers of learning best be described?   Places that made advances in medicine, literature, science, and math  
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The Muslim civilisation was most known for the development of what field of math?   Algebra  
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What are the holy days for the 3 religions we learned about?   Islam - Friday Judaism - Saturday Christianity - Sunday  
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Where are the customs and laws of Islam such as business practices and marriage found?   Sharia  
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What does Islam mean?   To submit to God  
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What is fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month called in the religion of Islam?   Ramadan  
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Which of the following was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire?   Justinian's code of law  
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What city commanded key trade routes linking Europe and Asia, and was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?   Constantinople  
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What empire did the Abbasids rule?   The Muslim Empire  
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What title did Ivan III use?   Tsar, or Czar  
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What helped cause the decline of the Byzantine Empire?   When the Mongols and Turks took over Constantinople, the disruption of trade, and the Bubonic plague  
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As a result of Mongol rule over medieval Russia, Russian rulers continued the Mongol's use of what?   Absolute rule  
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The Seljuks converted to what religion?   Islam  
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What did the Turk's political and cultural preference for the persian cause?   It caused the Seljuks Empire to weaken and the Persian culture to grow  
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Which civilizations most influenced the development of Russia?   The Byzantine and the Mongols Empire's  
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What culture most influenced the Seljuk culture?   The Persian Empire  
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Why did the Age of Chivalry eventually decline?   New technology: long bow  
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Which developments did the most to end the Middle Ages?   The long bow, the Bubonic Plague, the Hundred Years War, and the Great Schism  
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What impact did the second agricultural revolution have on Medieval society?   It increased population because of food surplus  
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The most important effect of the Hundred Years' war was that it caused the development of what?   National Identities in England and France  
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What was the group of people most responsible for spreading the Bubonic Plague?   Traders  
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How was the Great Schism finally resolved?   All three popes were forced to resign, then one pope was finally selected  
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What was the central issue of the Hundred Years war?   The throne of France  
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What were the rights that the Magna Carta originally defended?   The English Nobility  
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What was the main effect of the Commercial Revolution?   More money was available for building businesses  
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What did the decisions of the English royal courts justice create?   English Common Law  
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What function did craft guilds not perform?   Borrow and loan money  
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How did the Battle of Hastings change the course of English history?   Normans took control of England  
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Who led the Norman conquest of England?   William the conquerer  
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Describe or define the nature of a guild.   An association of people who worked at the same occupation  
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What problems were identified by church reformers during the Middle Ages?   Village priests marrying, simony - bishops selling positions in the church, and lay investiture - kings appointing bishops  
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What was the main goal of the crusades?   To regain the holy land  
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What was the organized effort to drive Muslims from Spain called?   The Spanish Reconquista  
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Who had the authority to declare a squire a knight?   A knight  
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What was the main job of a squire?   To help the knight he is apprenticed to, and to learn how to become a knight  
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What was a page supposed to learn?   Manners, and fighting skills  
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What best describes the events after Charlemagne's death?   Left his kingdom to his son, but he wasn't a good leader, so he left it to his three sons, and they fought over the kingdom, resulting in the treaty of Verdun  
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Who was the leader who brought Christianity to the Franks?   Clovis  
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The feudal system was based on what?   A system of loyalties  
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Who was a knight supposed to fight bravely for?   His earthly lord, his heavenly lord, and his lady  
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Who was a serf?   A person who worked on a manor, and was at the bottom of the feudal system?  
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What was excommunication and interdict?   Excommunication was when a church banished a person from the church, and interdict was when a town was excommunicated because of the leader  
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What was the role of women?   Most were powerless, noblewomen had more power than peasant women  
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What were monasteries?   They were religious towns, built by the church, where monks and nuns lived, and copied religious texts  
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What was the most important contribution that Charlemagne gave to the empire?   He united Germanic tribes and the Western Roman Empire  
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In feudalism, what was a fief?   A granted piece of land  
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