Final

Question 1

Muhammad

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is considered by Muslims to be the last messenger and prophet sent by God to guide humanity to the right way.

Question 2

Inn Battuta

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was a Medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.

Question 3

Characteristics of Muslim

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Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 4

Territorial spread of Islam

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The expansion of the Arab Empire in the years following the Prophet Muhammad’s death led to the creation of caliphates, occupying a vast geographical area and conversion to Islam was boosted by missionary activities particularly those of Imams, who easily intermingled with local populace to propagate the religious teachings.

Question 5

Sunni

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Sunni Islam (/ˈsuːni/ or /ˈsʊni/) is a denomination of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s first Caliph was his father-in-law Abu Bak

Question 6

Abbasid Caliphate

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The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Question 7

Trade

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began to spread the religion along the eastern coast of Africa and to the western and central Sudan (literally, “Land of Black people”), stimulating the development of urban communities.

Question 8

Shia

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is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s proper successor as Caliph was his son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib

Question 9

Umayyad Caliphate

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The Umayyad Caliphate, also spelled Omayyad, was the second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. This caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty, hailing from Mecca. Wikipedia

Question 10

Germanic Invasions

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The Germanic Wars is a name given to a series of wars between the Romans and various Germanic tribes between 113 BC and 596 AD. The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings and later Germanic invasions in the Roman Empire that started in the late 2nd century. The series of conflicts, which began in the 5th century under the Western Roman Emperor Honorius, led (along with internal strife) to the ultimate downfall of the Western Roman Empire.

Question 11

Charlemagne

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He united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries. Wikipedia

Question 12

Bubonic Plague

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Europe experienced the most deadly disease outbreak in history when the Black Death, the infamous pandemic of bubonic plague, hit in 1347, killing a third of the human population. It is believed that society subsequently became more violent as the mass mortality rate cheapened life and thus increased warfare, crime, popular revolt, waves of flagellants, and persecution.[

Question 13

Feudalism

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the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

Question 14

Crusades

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The crusades were a series of holy wars called by popes with the promise of indulgences for those who fought in them and directed against external and internal enemies of Christendom for the recovery of Christian property or in defense of the Church or Christian people.

Question 15

100 year war

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The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the Kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders and Scotland.

Question 16

Manor

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a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.

Question 17

Guilds

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a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.

Question 18

Estates general

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the representative assembly of the three “estates,” or orders of the realm: the clergy and nobility—

Question 19

Social Hierachy

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Social stratification is a society’s categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political).

Question 20

Battle of hastings

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The background to the battle was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066, which set up a succession struggle between several claimants to his throne.
Harold was crowned but later fought by William

Question 21

Parliament

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(in the UK) the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.

Question 22

Religious life in the Middle Ages

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The Middle Ages: Religion. he Catholic Church was the only church in Europe during the Middle Ages, and it had its own laws and large coffers.

Question 23

Magna Carta

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to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown,

Question 24

Chivalry

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the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.

Question 25

Treaty of Vernon

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The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Charlemagne.

Question 26

Architecture

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Gothic or Romanesque style

Question 27

Machiavelli

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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the founder of modern political science. Wikipedia

Question 28

Humanism

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an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.

Question 29

Vernacular

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1. | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Question 30

The prince

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is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.

Question 31

Printing press

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that allowed these works to be mass produced, feeding a much wider audience than the old hand written methods could ever have hoped to reach. This in turn allowed the Renaissance to develop more fully. In addition, the press removed scribal errors,

Question 32

Causes of the Renaissance

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New wealth, Black Death, printing press, development of humanism

Question 33

Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Question 34

Ideals of the Renaissance

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Time of looking back to classic world of Ancient Greece and Rome and the idea of human importance being more important then the battle of the church

Question 35

Secular

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(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.

Question 36

Causes of reformation

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The Protestant Reformation is a term used to describe a series of events that happened in the 16th century in the Christian Church. Because of corruption in the Catholic Church, some people saw a need to change the way it worked

Question 37

Henry VIII

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Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England. Besides asserting the sovereign's supremacy over the Church of England, thus initiating the English Reformation, he greatly expanded royal power.

Question 38

Catholic reformation

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The 14th, 15th and 16th centuries saw a spiritual revival in Europe, in which the question of salvation became central. This became known as the Catholic Reformation.

Question 39

Martin Luther

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Luther taught that salvation and subsequently eternal life is not earned by good deeds but is received only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin.

Question 40

95 Theses

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Acting on this belief, he wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate.

Question 41

John Calvin

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John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism

Question 42

English Reformation

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Image result for english reformation The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 43

Aztec

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When used to describe ethnic groups, the term "Aztec" refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the Mexica, the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan.

Question 44

Christopher columbus

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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa.

Question 45

Bartolome de las Casas

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Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar.

Question 46

inca

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The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru.

Question 47

Maya

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The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script—the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.

Question 48

Encomienda

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a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

Question 49

Effects of the spanish Conquest

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Destruction of the Empire, Lifestyle Improvements