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7th Grade
01/24/2012

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What is a charter?
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a written document that granted privileges to and freedoms to ciy residents
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Who defeated who in te Deloponhesian War?
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Sparta beat Athens
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What is the order of the feudal society?
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lords,knights, tenants, and serfs
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What was the period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus?
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Pax Romana
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What happened when the Middle Ages ended?
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the premodern period began witht eh Renaissance
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Who was a greek philosopher?
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Sacrates
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When Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to where?
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the East Indies
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What did Johannes Gutenberg do?
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invented a moveable type
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What kind of writers reached a wider audience by writing the language they spoke everyday?
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Renaissance
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During the Age of Exploration, who was the Portuguese explorer who sailed around the cape of Good Hope to India?
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Vasco da Gama
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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?
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William Shakespere
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Who ruled lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea?
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Rome, at one time
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What was the Columbian Exchange a distribution of?
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people, ideas, and diseases around the world by European explorers and settlers
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What was the representative body that took power in England in the name of the people?
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parliament
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