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| Explain the foundations of Christianity. Why did it spread across the Roman empire? |
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| The apostles spread faith across the roman empire. One of the great apostles was Peter. They went to towns and preached about the new faith. |
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| Explain the foundations of Hinduism. How did it become part of the culture of East Asia? |
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| The religion began in India, and began to spread when the powerful emperor of Maurya Asoka converted to it, leading to Hindu missionaries |
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| .Explain the foundations of Buddhism. How did it spread outside of India? |
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| Created by sidhartha Guatama. King asoka addopted the religon, and monks were sent preaching the religon |
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| Describe how the Mandate of Heaven works. |
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| States that rulers ar elegit because they are the heir to gods. Ancient chinese tradition. |
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| Describe the foundations of Islam. How did it spread from Saudi Arabia? |
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| traders and merchants converted to islam and brouhgt it to new places |
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| Explain the Crusades. What were the causes? Where was it taken place? What was the outcome? |
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| Take back the holy land, jerusalem. |
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| 2. What factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantium Empire? Why did the western portion of the Roman Empire fall? What event further pushed the Byzantium Empire away from the Western part of the Roman Empire? |
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| the west protion of the empire fell because it was not near the wter, so it did not hsve a good supply of goods. Ottomans captured the byzantine empire |
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| 3. What role did the Catholic Church play in life during the Middle Ages? |
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| The role that the church played was that they made people buy indulgances, and was very corrupt. |
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| What is the purpose of guilds during the middle ages? |
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| guilds protected the members. IE merchats guild... |
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| Explain the effects of trade and travel during the Middle Ages |
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| Trade and travel increased, making merchants get more money. |
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| 6. Who were the Abbasids? Where was their capital? Why did they choose that location? |
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Capotiol:baghdad
abassids were the thid muslim caliphate. |
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| Who were the Umayyads? Why did the Persians support the Addasids over the Umayyads? |
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| Persans supprted abbassids because the umayyads were very violent and had different beleifs |
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| Describe the invasion of China by Kublai Khan. What was the outcome of this invasion? |
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| n Kubla khans conquest, he united many different areas together |
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| Describe the conquests of Tamerlane |
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| tamer the lame. Killed many people, slaughtered around 3 million people. He was a very ruthless leader. |
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| Describe Genghis Khan’s rule. Why is he significant? |
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| ghengis khan was a ruler who tok over towns, and forced them to pay a tax to him. If they refused to pay the tax, he would slaughter the town. |
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| Describe the effects of the Black Death on all aspects of life during the middle ages. |
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| even thogh the black death klled many people, it opened many jobs up for lower people, and gave money to people who were very good at what they did. Say you were a builder, there were probbaly not many builders elft, so you would get a lot more business. |
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| Describe the economy of Ghana. What is the geography of Africa? |
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| the econemy is not very good. THe geography is very mountanous. |
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| Describe the Muslim influences brought to Africa by Arab traders. |
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| Describe the economy of the Songhai Empire. |
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| safe conomic trade took place. Many gold fields were around |
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| What did Peter the Great do for Russia? |
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tried to westernize russia.
-St petersburg
-navy
-clothes |
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| 2. Describe the Incan Civilization. What was their government? Farming? Religion? Society? |
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| large civilization. Beleived that their ruler was god. Mostly a farming cmmunity. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| Describe what happened to the Native American population when the Spanish arrived in the Americas? |
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| spanish took over and put all the people to slavery.. They worked all the people, almmost to death. |
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| What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do? |
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| It was made to draw a line west to the Canary Islands, so that land discover west of the line belonged to spain and the one to the east was for Portugal. |
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| What empire captured the Byzantine Empire? Why was this significant? |
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| ottoman, ended the byzantine empire. |
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| What was Italy’s role in the Renaissance? |
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| lots of artists form italy made art of the reinaissance. |
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| What was the Medici family’s role in the Renaissance? |
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| The Medici Family were an influential and wealthy family under Cosimos rule. All suceeding descendents of the family maintained and upheld their rule. |
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| What are the central themes of the Renaissance? |
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| humanism, indivudalism, materialism |
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| Who was Sultan Suleiman? Why was he such a successful leader? |
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| the leader of the Ottoman Empire at its largest |
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| Who was John Calvin? What role did he have in the Reformation? |
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| was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology |
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| What was the Reign of Terror? What was its purpose? |
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| period of violence that occurred for one year and two months after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions |
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| Who was Rousseau? What did he say about Government? |
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| distinct forms of government have to do only with the execution of the sovereign laws |
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