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6th Grade History Exam Ch1-2
6th Grade History Exam FC Ch1-2
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History
6th Grade
12/09/2008

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6th Grade Covenant Day School History Exam Flash Cards[image]

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Viking Stories
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Sagas
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"Erik The Red's" Son
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Leif Ericcson
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"The Great Charter"

It adressed the land right of nobles

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Magna Carta
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Time Period from 500A.D. too 1500A.D.

Started with fall of Roman Empire

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Middle Ages
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a rebirth of the arts and learning of ancient Greece and Rome
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Renaissance
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an overland trade route running from China to the black sea
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Silk Road
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the fights to take back the holy land
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Crusades
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Under this system people known as vassals pledged their loyalty to a "lord" in exchange for land and protection
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Feudalism
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these people lived on one manor for life and farmed or did other jobs for the "lord" that ruled them
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serfs
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this person devoted his life to preaching the messages of Allah
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Muhammad
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Muhammad started this religion these people are also known as Muslims
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Islam
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  • People From Scandinavia. (Denmark, Norway, &Sweden)
  • Skilled sailors
  • Raided Europe
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Vikings
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An Attempt to Reform the Roman Catholic Church
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Protestant Reformation
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an ancient invention that sailors used to travel the seas
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Astrolabe
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A small sturdy ship made to be fast and easy to manage
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Caravel
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The king and Queen of Spain that funded Columbus' Voyage
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King Ferdinand an Queen Isabella
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This Person Helped start the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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sole or total control
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Monopoly
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The island that the Taino people were on

(Columbus later explored and renamed this)

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Hispaniola
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Spainish soldiers who brought the spirit of the Reconquista to the americas
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Conquistadores
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This treaty agreed to move the line of demarcation farther west

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Treaty of Tordesillas
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To sail completey around 'Earth'

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Circumnavigate
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A large farm that specialized in one Crop
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Plantation
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An expeirnced Itian Sailor from the town of Genoa

(Hint: it is a person not a term)

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Christopher Columbus
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'The Navigator'

He and his team designed the caravel

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Prince Henry
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