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Spring Mid-term Exam Review
4/18
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Social Studies
9th Grade
04/18/2016

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Term
Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
Definition
an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China.
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Crusades
Definition
were a series of intermittent Papal sanctioned military campaigns beginning in the late 11th-century.
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Holy Land
Definition
the lands comprising ancient Palestine & including the holy land of the Jewish, Christian, & Islamic religions.
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Ottoman Empire
Definition
was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia.
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Suleiman The Magnificent
Definition
The Ottoman Empire reached its fullest extent under his rule.
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Ming Dynasty
Definition
A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.
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Zheng He
Definition
was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty.
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The Mongols
Definition
an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century,
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filial piety
Definition
is a virtue of respect for one's father, elders, and ancestors.
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