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What was the population of Ming China in the 1500s?
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How many years before Europe did Ming China know Blast Furnace and Cast Iron?
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Ming China in the 1500s irrigated agriculture long before Europe even had what tool?
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Ming China in the 1500s had a united state of peoples long before who?
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Who had superior naval technology in the 1500s between Europe and Ming China?
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When did Ming China invent gunpowder?
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Did Ming China in the 1500s have a national school system?
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When did the Chinese Empire begin to consolidate?
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In the Han Empire
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How did the Ming dynasty begin?
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With the exile of the Mongolians
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What was one of the greatest achievements of the Ming Dynasty?
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The extent, structure, and organization of their government
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What is the simplest type of government?
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What does Democracy Mean?
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Rule of the People
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What does Monarchy Mean?
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Rule of one, but has the implication of the existence of an inheritance, a ruling family.
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What are the limitations of the Rule of One?
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It all depends on the qualities of the leader
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What is an Oligarchy?
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Rule of the Few
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What is the Aristocracy?
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Who helps the emperors of the Ming Dynasty?
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Teachers/Advisers known as Bureaucrats
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Where did the emperors of the Ming Dynasty live?
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The Forbidden City
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Who had the most sophisticated government of the 1500s?
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What philosopher were the teachings of the Ming Dynasty based upon?
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Where was Zheng He from?
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What was the background of Zheng He?
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Zheng He, was castrated, why?
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Because he's a Eunuch
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What is the relationship of Eunuchs to the Emperor?
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As friends and servants to the Emperor
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Zheng He was a trusted adviser of who?
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Where did Zheng He explore?
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South East Asia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and East Africa
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Why did Zheng He travel?
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To show off the power of China and set up trade
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How many expeditions did Zheng He have?
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When did Yongle die?
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When did Zheng He die?
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When did Emperor Xuande die?
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In 1433, 1449, and 1452 Imperial Edicts made what illegal?
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Traveling outside of China
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What was the purpose of the Great Wall of China?
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To keep barbarians out and keep the Chinese in
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How many ships did the Chinese Navy have by 1474 due to destroying their own ships?
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When were Coastal Ships ordered to be destroyed by the Imperial Edict?
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Confucianism focused efforts on what?
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Family, Village, and Country nothing more
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When did the Ottoman Empire begin?
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When did the Ottoman Empire end?
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What traditions did the Ottoman Empire inherit?
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Greek, Roman, Byzantines, and Islam
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In the 1500s, who's culture and knowledge surpassed Europe tremendously?
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The Ottoman Empire, were very what?
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Orthodox, they had a heavy focus on the Karan
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Mehmed II took Constantinople when?
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When did the Byzantine Empire end?
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When Constantinople was taken by Mehmed II
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Who founded the Indian Mughal Dynasty?
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What was the population of the Indian Mughal Dynasty in the 1500s?
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When did the Mughal Dynasty come to their height?
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The seventeenth century
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What was the North American Population in the 1500s?
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Two to 15 million
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What was the South American Population in the 1500s?
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What is a Beast of Burden?
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Domesticated Animal used to perform work
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America had very little Beasts of Burden during what time?
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America had copper in the 1500s and gold and silver jewelry, but overall had no what?
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The Incas and the Aztecs were the most what in America during the 1500s?
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America in the 1500s was made up of what?
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Hunters/Gatherers/Farmers/Neolithic
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What was the population of Europe in the 1500s?
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What does Might Makes Right Mean?
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Killing for God is Ok, you can do anything through might
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Europe was trying to top, what two cultures?
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The Greeks and the Romans
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In Europe in the 1500s, what is on the rise?
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Humanism, the Renaissance
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What is Humanism?
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The study of the classic Greek and Roman writings
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European states in the 1500s were Highly Competitive in what fields?
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Politics, Military, and Commercially
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What is the Holy Roman Empire?
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German, for the most part. In the 1500s, Germany was not unified.
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What was the Philosophical/Theological heart of Europe?
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The Roman Catholic Church
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Europe was advancing agriculturally, financially, and in population until when?
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In Europe to gain political power was a what?
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In Europe they were using clocks by when?
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The fifteenth century
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When did Europe start using Arabic numerals, including zero by?
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The fifteenth century
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Who founded Christianity?
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What does Messiah mean?
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Where did Peter and Paul die?
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Rome, in around 64 AD
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What does Bishop mean?
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Peter died in Rome and is considered what?
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The Bishop of Rome
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The Inheritor of the title of the Bishop of Rome
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During the Middle Ages the Pope is like what?
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What is Excommunication?
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The power to make people not go to heaven
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Why did the Europeans travel out in the 1500s?
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Money, land, and new opportunities
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What benefit did the Crusades yield?
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It helped Europe to understand that there was more out there to explore
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Europe didn't have running water during the 1500s and because of this was what?
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What was the Scholastic Debate from 1220 to 1320s?
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A long running debate within the Church over the nature of god and philosophy
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What was the life expectancy of 14th century Europeans?
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Men 40
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What is the starting point of science?
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Aristotelian philosophy
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What was the Great Schism of 1305 to 1415?
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When there were two popes at the same time
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What was the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1700?
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Growth periods were shortened, and everything was cold
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What was the Black Death from 1347 to 1349?
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What was the Hundred Years War of 1337 through 1453?
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A series of four small wars between Britain and France
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Technology developed made Knights and Calvary obsolete
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When were the peasant revolts that were sparked by the Black Death?
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What are the qualities of a Long Bow?
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Six feet tall
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What was great about the Long Bow?
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Its power to penetrate armor
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What was the main job of peasants?
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Who owned land and peasants?
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Peasants learn their sense of value after what great event?
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More babies were born in Europe during what period?
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The Industrial Revolution
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Who were notable Humanists?
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Francesco Petrarch
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Boccaccio
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Dante Alighieri
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Machiavelli
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Erasmus
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Thomas More
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Latin was translated into the Italian vernacular why?
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To help more people in Rome, be able to read and understand the classics
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A money economy in Northern Italy and Humanism produced feelings of what?
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Optimism, potential, hope, and pride the Renaissance resulted
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What was The Prince?
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A guide to politics
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For Aristotle, sensory perception determines what?
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Niccolo Machiaveli applied Aristotle's methods to analyze and study what?
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The Prince advocated what?
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Doing anything to hold power
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What does it mean to act Machiavellian?
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What was the great achievement of Erasmus of Rotterdam?
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He wrote a Latin bible in 1516, encouraged vernacular, criticized the church, and wrote the Praise of Folly in 1509.
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What is the rule of primogeniture?
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The oldest son gets everything
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What did the Praise of Folly do?
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Poke fun at the downfalls of the church in the hope of reformation.
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What were methods for churches to make money?
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Relics, Indulgences,
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