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| Who is the prophet of Islam? | Muhammad
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| Followers of Islam are called what? | Muslims
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| What are the three kingdoms from West Africa? | Ghana, Mali, Songhai
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| What was the name of the famous West Africa city where scholars came from all over to visit and learn? | Timbuktu
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| Who made a Pilgrimage to Mecca and gave out large amounts of gold causing people to be curious about West Africa? | Mansa Musa
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| The kingdoms of West Africa grew wealthy from trading what two resources? | Salt and Gold
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| What are groups of people who worship together called? | Congregations
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| Countries become this when goods and services are imported and exported. | Interdependent
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| Countries become interdependent when goods and services are what? | imported and exported
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| Countries become interdependent when what two things are imported and exported. | goods and services
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| What is the term for the spread of ideas from one culture to another? | Diffusion
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| Provide two adjectives to describe the Greek land, which was why the Greeks used the Mediterranean Sea for food and trading. | rocky and mountainous
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| Because the Greek land was very rocky and mountainous, they used the Mediterranean Sea to do what? two things? | trading and food
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| What is the term for a Greek city-state? | polis
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| Give an example of a Greek polis. | Athens or Sparta
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| The Greeks founded democracy. Who is the father of democracy? | Cleisthenes
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| Greece was the first civilization to have citizens participate by doing this in the government. | voting
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| This is the type of government where all citizen participate in all decisions and outcomes. | direct democracy
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| This is the type of government where citizens elect other people to make decisions for them. | representative democracy
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| The Greeks started these to honor their gods. | Olympic games
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| Most of the greatest Muslim achievements occurred in what two subjects? | math and science
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| These were the names of the two main city-states in ancient Greece. | Athens and Sparta
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| The Greeks were the first to use these in their buildings. | columns
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| When this Muslim city in Spain fell to the Europeans, the Europeans found libraries there that contained more knowledge than they ever knew. | Toledo
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| What did the European find after conquering the city of Toledo in Spain? | libraries that had more knowledge than they had known before
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| Name three Greek philosophers. | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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| This is the pledge to behave with good moral values that doctors still follow today. | Hippocratic Oath
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| Who follows the Hippocratic Oath, pledge to behave with good moral values, today. | doctors
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| This was the Greek mathematician who created many of the Geometry rules you still follow today? | Euclid
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| The ancient Greeks created this to allow heavy objects to be lifted with less force. | pulley block
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| The ancient Greeks created this which they used to bring water from the river to a higher area. | screw
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| This Greek inventor, mathematician, scientist, and engineer discovered the principles of buoyancy. | Archimedes
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| These are common Roman people. | Plebeians
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| These are upper class Roman people. | Patricians
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| Rome elected leaders in 509 b.c. causing them to be the first place to have this form of government. | Republic (Republican)
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| Rome separated powers in government between the Magistrates, Senate, and the Assembly. What do we call the separation of powers in government? | Checks and balances
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| The Romans used this in the government, which means the ability to reject or stop a law from passing. | veto
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| What was the written code of Roman laws called? | Twelve Tables
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| Roman citizen's had a responsibility to participate in the government. What is this called? | civic duty
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| What was the name of the famous tomb built by the Mughal Empire? | Taj Mahal
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| What happened to the kings power in Western Europe as a result of the Crusades? Provide two reasons to explain the answer. | Their power increased because they took lands back from the nobles when the nobles died on the Crusades or when the nobles could not pay back money they borrowed from the king to go on the Crusades.
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| The Romans used arches to build these that brought fresh water from the mountains to their cities. | aqueducts
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| The Romans used these to build aqueducts that brought fresh water from the mountains to their cities. | arches
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| These were the five Romance languages that all came from Latin. | Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian
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| Roman invented this by mixing volcanic ash with crushed limestone. | cement/concrete
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| The Romans used these two architectural structures in their buildings. | arches and domes
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| How did the Romans build there roads so they could last longer? | in layers
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| What is another name of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire? | Byzantine Empire
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| What were three problems that led to the downfall of the Western Half of the Roman Empire? | corruption and greed in the government, Byzantine Empire had all the wealth, hard to communicate across the large empire
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| What four groups invaded the Roman Empire and led to the fall of the Western half of the Roman Empire? | Huns, Goths, Vandals, Franks
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| Why did feudalism start in Western Europe? | The kings could not protect people from the Viking, Magyar, and Muslim invasions.
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| This is the system of promises and loyalties between lords and vassals. | Feudalism
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| This is the process of turning a piece of land called a fief into a self sufficient property. | manor system
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| The manor system is the process of turning a piece of land called this into a self sufficient property. | fief
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| This is the term for a knight who promises to support a lord in exchange for land. | vassal
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| What spread across Western Europe on the Roman roads? | Christianity
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| This was the capital of the Byzantine Empire. | Constantinople
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| What did the Byzantines use to trade goods with people in Asia? | Silk Road
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| This place was built in Baghdad in the 700's and was a place where people came to learn in the Islamic Empire. | House of Wisdom
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| Muslims created these to help people learn how to make medicine. | Pharmacies
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| Muslims created some of the first hospitals in the 900's and did this to the sick. | quarantined them
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| Muslims thinkers translated books from these two groups into Arabic. These books eventually made there way into Europe, starting the Renaissance. | Greeks and Romans
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| Muslim thinkers translated works from Greeks and Romans into this language. These books eventually made their way into Europe, starting the Renaissance. | Arabic
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| Muslims created this using the numbers from ancient India. | Algebra
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| Muslims created Algebra using numbers they discovery in ancient India. Today the numbers are called what? | Hindu-Arabic numbers
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| These were holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims over the city of Jerusalem in the land of Palestine. | Crusades
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| The Crusades were holy wars fought between what two groups over the city of Jerusalem in the land of Palestine? | Muslims and Christians
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| Name six products/knowledge that were brought to Europe from Asia as a result of the Crusades. | silk, spices, citrus fruits, algebra, compass, Hindu-Arabic numbers
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| This was a document that gave more power to upper class people in England. | Magna Carta
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| The Magna Carta had many rights. Name four rights that are still around today that come from the Magna Carta. | you cannot be kept in jail without a reason, you have the right to a trial by jury, the leader is not above the law, right to have fair taxes
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| Why did the Silk Road have multiple routes? | because of geographic features like mountains and deserts
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| This was a series of plagues that killed 1/3 of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351. | Black Death
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| The Black Death was a series of plagues that killed how much of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351. | 1/3
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| Any ideas against the Catholic Church are called what? | heresy
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| Any person who expresses ideas against the Catholic Church is called what? | heretic
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| What term means to be kicked out of the Catholic Church? | Excommunicate
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| What is the term given to people who work for the Catholic Church? | clergy
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| Who organized the Mongols into a powerful army and invaded China? | Genghis Khan
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| Who traveled to China from Europe and wrote a book about his journey creating European interest in China? | Marco Polo
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| What did Marco Polo do to create European interest in China? | wrote a book about his journey to China
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| Name three things the Chinese invented that spread west along the Silk Road through the Muslims and the Mongols. | gunpowder, paper, magnetic compass
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| The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453 when this group of Muslims captured the capitol Constantinople. | Ottoman Turks
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| This is a rebirth of interest in classical art, architecture, and literature from the Greeks and Romans. | Renaissance
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| This is the way of thinking and learning that stresses the importance of human ability and action. | Humanism
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| Who developed the printing press with movable type in the 1450's. It allowed learning to spread faster than ever before in Europe. | Johann Gutenberg
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| What was the movement to try and change the Catholic Church that Martin Luther started called? | Reformation
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| Who started the Reformation, the movement to try and change the Catholic Church? | Martin Luther
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| What was the name of Christians who were against the way the Catholic Church taught Christianity? | protestants
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| Why was Constantinople able to become wealthy from trading? | It was in the perfect location between Europe and Asia.
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| Shortly after signing the Magna Carta, noble in England formed this group to advise the king. | Parliament
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| What is the term for national governments sharing power with local governments? | federalism
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| What two reasons did Europeans explore in the early 1400's? | find a direct route to Asia to get spices cheaper, spread Christianity
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| The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the new world (America's) and the old world (Europe and Asia) was called this. | Colombian Exchange
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| This is considered to be the birth of modern science and was a time in Europe between 1540 and 1700 when Europe began to look to science to solve their problems. | Scientific Revolution
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| This is the name given to countries that have a defined border and share a common language and culture. | Nation-states
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| When the Mongols failed to conquer Japan, what two places rebelled and took their land back? | China and Korea
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| China and Korea took their lands back after the Mongols failed to conquer what place? | Japan
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