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237282416Gregory of Toursbishop of Tours in central Gaul; composed The History of Franks0
237282417Beneficereward for a retainer1
237282418Benedict's ruleset of regulations about monastic religion; created by St. Benedict; yr. 5292
246661555calpulliMexica community groups3
246661556Kings of Ghana controlled ___&___ tradegold&salt4
246661557Islam brought Holy Wars to who?children NOT of the book5
246661558Koumbiancient capital of Ghana6
246661559Sahelgrasslands7
246661560largest Mali trading centerTimbuktu8
246661561Mansu MusaMali's greatest ruler; devout Muslim; VERY wealthy9
246661562Moroccans also known as ___Berbers10
246661563most prosperous East African Bantu port cities __,___,&___Kilwa, Gedi,& Mombasa11
246661564Shonafirst group of Bantu to inhabit the Zimbabwe plateau12
246661565Genghis Khanled the Mongols; did NOT conquer China13
246661566Kublai Khansucceeded Genghis; founded Yuan dynasty; conquered northern China; moved capital to Beijing; when died, his empire was divided between his 4 sons14
246661567Mongols brought __&__disease& trade15
246661568Polo wrote 2 books about his travels in Beijing, etc. ___&____The Million & Travels of Marco Polo16
246661569Marco Polo was a ___ traderVenetian17
246661570Mongols captured and looted ___Baghdad18
246661571Sui inventions include... 3matches, gunpowder, porcelain pottery19
246661572Sui collapsed because of... 3peasant rebellions, failed military campaigns,financial problems20
246661573___ dynasty lasted for only 30 yearsSui21
246661574equal field system developed byGaozong22
246661575MeritocracyBureaucrats are hired and advanced according to their performance23
246661576last Tang emperor abdicated his throne in..90724
246661577China's main 3 commoditiestea, salt, and porcelain25
246661578starting in 955..Buddhists were persecuted in northern China26
246661579Song Dynasty time960-127927
246661580flying cashput money in some place and use it somewhere else - "bank"28
246661581fast ripening rice1000; brought from Cambodia29
247669906St. Thomas Aquinas"Father of Scholastic Movement"30
247669907Hanseatic League"free trade agreement"31
247669908Otto 1Otto of Saxony; former kind of Germany; first emperor of Holy Roman Empire-96232
247669909Frederick Barbarossaknown as "the red beard"; reigned from 1152-1190; vigorous emperor33
247669910St. Dominicorganized movements to champion spiritual over materialistic values; Dominica friars "beggars"; worked with St.Francis34
247669911Capetian DynastyHugh Capet started the dynasty; reigned after the Carolingians died35
247669912Saladina Sunni who was persecuted by the Crusades36
251105174jizyaa per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim citizens, who meet certain criteria.37
251105175axuma city in northern Ethiopia which was the original capital38
251105176Shariathe moral code and religious law of Islam39
251105177Aztecs located in the...Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico40
252774391ProcopiusByzantine historian41
252774392toltecatlcraftsman42
252774393family clansayllus43
252774394huey tlatoanmost powerful mesoamerincan ruler and ruled over the triple alliance44
252774395ever 52 years"binding up of years"45
252774396floating cardenschihampas46
252774397aztec had terrace faming and...shifting cultivation47
252774398aztec ball gameTLACHTLI48
2527743994 steps to aztec conquest1. asked city to join 2.if no, sent weapons 3.attacked 4.soldiers sacfriced49
252774400ghana fell too....mali50
252774401mali grew under leadership of ...sundiata51
252774402capital of maliniani52
252774403sunni ali's son was overthrown and replaced iwth...askia muhammed53
252774404vasco de gamaexplored africa54
252774405askumits were very....cosmopolitan55
252774406mbanzacapital of kongo56
252774407timur the lame founded....mongolian timurid dynasty57
252774408umayyad dynasty temp. solved...problems of succession58
252774409ummayyad is older thaaan...abbasid59
252774410ulamapeople with religious knowledge60
252774411gadisjudges61
252774412africa ruled locally by...ulama and gadis62
252774413main sources to form morale guidelinesquran and sharia63
252774414350 yrs of turmoil afterrrthe han ended64
252774415sui yangdi was assassinated in..61865
252774416dharma to dao asnirvana to wuwei66
252774417corpus iuris civilisthe body of the civil law67
252774418provinces (____) under generalsthemes68
252774419____ used for mass entertainment during the byzantinehippodrome69
252774420schism in 1054 between...eastern orthodox and roman catholic70
252774421____ capture Constantinopleottoman turks71
252774422islamic law, inspired by quransharia72
252774423shi suppport..ali and descendents as caliphs73
252774424movement that sought to eliminate distinctions b/w hindu and islambhakti movement74
252774425harsha reigned in...india after the gupta75

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