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Final Exam II
Global 9 H
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History
9th Grade
06/13/2011

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Cultural Diffusion
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The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another This can happen through migration, trade, and warfare. As a result of these things people shares and adapted the customs of others
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Neolithic Revolution
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the period of time during which the introduction of agriculture led poeple to the transition from nomadic to settled life
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Hammurabi's code
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King of Babylon, carved nearly 300 laws on stone pillar. He codifyed (the first) to arrange and set down in writing
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Mandate of Heaven
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divine right to rule, expalined trhough the dynastic cycle. If goof governemtn it would prosper. If bad that it would fail
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Magna Carta
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the great charte approved by King of England in 1215; it limited royal power and established certain rights of English freeman
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Hellenistic Period
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time when eastern and western cultues assimilated Alexandria ruled. New philosphies, advances in math and astronomy and medicine
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Charlemagne
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"Charles the Great" and built great empire and spend much time fighitng muslims in Spain
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Crusades
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a series of wars from the 1000 to 1200s in which European Christians tried to win control of the Holy Land from muslims. Pope Urban II called for people to come together to protect the Holy Land Impact was economies expand and wider world evolves.
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Justinian
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was the greatest Byzantine Empire. Created the Justinian's code which was a colloection of Roman laws model for Church
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Confucianism
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religion that stressed the ideas of how to acheive social order and how to matain harmony with nature
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Glorious Revolution
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uprising in Enlgand against the power of Monarchs
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Fertile Cresent
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legion of middle east in which civilizations arose
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Aztecs
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group of tribes in me vally of mexico. Captial was techochition and built a farmland environment. (chinopas expanded empire through fierce conquest and shrewd alliances.
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Plague
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epidemic that rangued Europe in the 1300s
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Ghenghis Khan
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founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire, united his land (Asia and Europe) and slipt it up between his grandsons.
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