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who dominated the long distance trade routes during medieval times

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italians

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what was the most significant conflict between chuch and state in medieval europe

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investiture conflict

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what will become the rallying cry for the crusaders throughout the crusades

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“God Wills It”

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Legends of this orders secret rituals, huge wealth and lost treasures have long fascinated conspiracy theorists for centuries

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Knights Templar

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List the significance of the Battle of Hastings. All.

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  • England political shift from the Scandinavian world to continental Europe
  • Domesday Book
  • Birth of the Modern English Language
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Explain the 2 important provisions within the Magna Carta

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  • Protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment
  • New taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage
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By 1215 the Mongols had conquered most of China under their powerful leader

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Genghis Khan

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Who was the most famous of all the Venetian merchants

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Marco Polo

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Name the great plague that ends in 1352 with the deaths of 1/3 to 3/5’s of the European population

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The Black Death

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What French Peasant girl turned the longstanding Anglo-French conflict into a Religious War

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Joan of Arc

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The Renaissance origunated in what Italian city

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Florence

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Define Colombian exchange

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The movement of people, animals, plants, manufactured goods, precious metals, and diseases between Europe, America, and Africa

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What were Martin Luther’s 2 major issues with the church

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Salvation and Indulgences

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Pope Paul III cretaed a new priest order to combat the Protestants and convert the heathens to Christianity. What was this new order of priests called

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The Jesuits

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What was the name of one of the most influential royal houses of Europe? The House of Charles V of Spain

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House of Habsburg

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What were French Calvinists called

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Huguenots

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In response to the execution of the Catholic Monarch, Mary Queen of Scot’s, Philip II of Spain

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Sent the famous Spanish Armada to crush England

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Name the King who was an ardent believer in the divine right of kings and will create a system of absolute monarchical rule?

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Louis XIV

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Define absolutism

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a system of government in which the ruler claims sole and uncontestable power

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Define Mercantilism

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Governments must intervene to increase national wealth by whatever means possible

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Name given to those who fought for Parliament

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Roundheads

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Name given to those who fought for the king

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Cavaliers

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The Cromwellian Rump Parliament then abolished the monarchy and ht eHouse of Lords and set up a Puritan Republic known as the

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Commonwealth of England

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John Locke argues that Governments only purpose was to protect what

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Protect life, liberty, and property

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Define the following a. mestizo b. peninsular c. creoles
a. a person born to a spanish father and a native mother b. those born in spain c. born in america of spanish parents
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explain the strategic importance of the creation of the bank of England
enabled the government to raise money at low interest for foreign wars
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what city symbolized Russia's "opening to the west"
St. Petersburg
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What were the 2 central doctrines of the Enlightenment Philosophers?
- Individual liberty - religious tolerance
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What were the 3 main reasons for immigration to the "new world"
- economic freedom - political freedom - religious freedom
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who were the executive authority in the colonies, tasked with carrying out the Kings instructions?
royal governors
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List the 4 coercive acts
- boston port act - massachusetts government act - impartial administration of justice act - quartering act
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the second continetal congress issues a declaration of independence on what day
July 4th, 1776
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A body of deputies from the three estates or orders
Estates General
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Declaration of the Right of Man and Citizen proclaimed
"Men are born and remained free and equal in rights"
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Know what the slogans and values that will define the French Revolution are
- liberty - equality - fraternity
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2nd century BC artifact will unlock the lost ancient Egyptian culture
Rosetta Stone
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The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wards and the Napoleonic Wars
Congress of Vienna
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America's reaction to the political instability in South America during the 1820s
Monroe Doctrine
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Causes of WWI
- nationalism - imperialism - entangling alliances - militarism~Germany's rise as a world power
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Reasons for American involvement
-economic -unrestricted submarine warfare -anti-german propaganda
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This clause (provision) forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war
War Guilt Clause
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Point 14 General association of nations to guarantee the security of great and small nations alike
league of nations
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what does NAZI stand for
National Socialist German Workers Party
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Results of the failed Putsch
- the trial publicity made Hitler a national figure - he writes mein kampf - he decides to take power legally
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Western democracies policy of ---. Accepting Hitler's demands in order to avoid conflict
Appeasement
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Hitler invaded Poland World War II begins
September 1, 1939
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Desert Fox
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
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Reasons Hitler invaded Russia. For Hitler, the temptations for invasion are too great
- Its the heart of communism - its where lebensraum is to be found - it is the home to the largest jewish population in the world
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The US will give $46 billion in aid
Lend-Lease
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The axis powers
- Germany->Adolf Hitler - Italy->Benito Mussolini - Japan->Hideki Tojo
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The Allied Powers
- America->FDR - England ->Winston Churchill - Soviet Union (Russia)->Joseph Stalin
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What was the date of D-Day
June 6, 1944
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conference considered a sellout by FDR
Yalta
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Supreme Allied Commander in EUrope
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Japan sought to establish what they called the
Greater East Asia Co. Prosperity Sphere
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For the military the highest honor they could gain in battle
Die for their emperor
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Surrender was considered a
Disgrace
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Pearl harbor gets the United States into WWII
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor
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--- is ordered by FDR to leave for Australia. Where he issues his famous --- declaration
General Douglas MacArthur I Shall Return
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76k American and Filipino troops surrender
The Bataan Death March
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Japanese Navy is stopped in the attempt to capture Port Moresby
Battle of Coral Sea
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Commander and CHief of the US Pacific fleet during WWII
Chester W. Nimitz
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Supreme allied commander in the Pacific Theatre during WWII
Douglass MacArthur
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Led air raid on Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle
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Americans at home followed the war
Newsreels
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Were placed in the windows of Americans who lost loved ones during the war
Gold Stars
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It is the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
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1st land victory for America in the pacific
Battle of Guadalcanal
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Most famous image of WWII classic flag raising on Mt. Suribachi
Battle of Iwo Jima
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1st assault on the japanese home islands
Battle of Okinawa
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Kamikazes
Divine wind
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Code name for the atomic bomb project
Manhattan Project
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1st nuclear explosion was on US soil July 16, 1945
Trinity
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On August 15, 1945 Japan Surrenders
VJ-Day
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Will be the Military Governor of occupied Japan
General Douglas MacArthur
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The internment of the japanese americans
Japanese Americans were ytargeted as potentially disloyal. They were viewed as potential spies for the Japanese Government
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Which offered the benefit of free college education to returning veterans
G.I. bill of rights

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