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279813734Zhao Kuangyin_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ founded the Song Dynasty.0
279813735Charles Martel_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, meaning Charles the Hammer, was mayor of the palace (or chancellor) of Austrasia, which was the eastern part of the Frankish kingdom. He restored a united Frankish kingdom and established a power base on which the Carolingian empire was founded. In 732 he defeated the invading Muslims at Poitiers and stopped further Muslim expansion into Europe.1
279813736Constantine I_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Constantine is best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor.2
279813737Justintian_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 483-565, Byzantine emperor. He had the wars of reconquest.3
279813738Five Pillars of Islam_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are the five basic acts in Islam.4
279813739Muhhammad_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ran away to Medina when exiled from Mecca.5
279813740Abbasid DynastyThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ replaced the Umayyad's in 750 AD. They concentrated more on controlling the plains rather then the coast. They were the third caliph, the second great one.6
279813741TaoismPeople who practice _ _ _ _ _ _ like to be governed with the least number of rules.7
279813742Ulrich Van Liechtenstein_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, was a man who practiced Courtly Love. He cut off his finger, drank dirty bath water, jumped into the moat, and fought to the death for a woman.8
279813743Saladin and Richard the Lionheart_ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ were very good leaders in there time.9
279813744IconoclasmThe breaking of religious statues or paintings is called _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.10
279813745declineThe Kievan Rus and the Byzantine Empire were connected by their _ _ _ _ _ _ _.11
279813746Footbinding_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was the process of making your foot smaller for attractiveness. This took place in china.12
279813747Wendi_ _ _ _ _ was the great founder of the Sui Dynasty.13
279813748BoyarsRussian _ _ _ _ _ _ were Russian nobles.14
279813749Humanism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.15
279813750Pugachev_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was responsible for the serf uprising in the 1770's.16
279813751Peter the Great_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was a tsar in Russia. Western European technology was imported by Peter in the late 1690s and continued until his death in 1725. Peter visited the Netherlands, France, England, and some of the German states hiring skilled craftsmen to come to Russia especially in areas such as ship building. Russia under Peter built its first navy. He also made his nobles cut their beards.17
279813752Greek Fire_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was a tool used against the Arabs by the Byzantine Empire.18
279813753Courtly_ _ _ _ _ _ _ Love was how a man courted a woman in the Middle Ages.19
279813754IslamicThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Origins can be traced back far, making it the earliest great world religion. It was founded by Muhhammad.20
279813755Classicism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the following of ancient Greek or Roman principles and style in art and literature.21
279813756Hagia SophiaThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the church Justintian built to make Byzantine more beautiful.22
279813757Christian_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Origins was founded by Jesus Christ. One of the Major Religions.23
279813758ThreeThere are _ _ _ _ _ major world religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.24
279813759LawThe Three forms of _ _ _ for the Classical Roman Civilization is the of legis actiones, the formulary system, and cognitio extrarodinarem.25
279813760Religion of Kievan RusThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is Slavic Paganism and Orthodox Christianity.26
27981376111th CenturyThe Byzantine Empire declined in the _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, because the Seljuk Turks kept taking over their land and invading on them.27
279813762DemocracyThe rise of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ traces back to Athens to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day28
279813763Charlemagne_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ united much of the old Roman empire in Europe. He converted to catholic, because of this Pope Leo III named him emperor.29
279813764Battle of ToursThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ occured in 732 when the Frankish army confronted the Muslim army to stop their spread in western Europe. Lead by Charles Martel.30
279813765CrusadesThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ were a series of religious wars.31
279813766FirstThe _ _ _ _ _ Crusade was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the reconquering of Jerusalem.32
279813767FactorsThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that led to the Crusades. While many social, political, and economic factors contributed to the First Crusade, certainly one of the most important was the role religion played in the daily life of the population.33
279813768FoundationsThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of the Hindu faith have been laid on the bedrock of spiritual truths.34
280000471CanterburyThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.35
280000472Beowulf_ _ _ _ _ _ _ is an Old English epic poem celebrating the legendary Scandinavian hero.36
280000473Southernization_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the movement of ideas and technologies from south Asia.37
280000474Confucianism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.38
280000475Buddhism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century B.C.39
280000476TangThe _ _ _ _ Dynasty was a dynasty that was characterized by such strength and brilliance that it is unprecidented by any other.40
280000477Song_ _ _ _ Dynasty artwork was mostly landscapes.41
280000478MeccaA city in western Saudi Arabia, an oasis town in the Red Sea region of Hejaz, east of Jiddah, considered by Muslims to be the holiest city of Islam; pop. 618,000. The birthplace in ad 570 of the prophet Muhammad, it was the scene of his early teachings before his emigration to Medina in 622 (the Hegira). On Muhammad's return to _ _ _ _ _ in 630 it became the center of the new Muslim faith42
280000479Medina_ _ _ _ _ _ is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam.43
280000480KaabaThe _ _ _ _ _ is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Qur'an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Allah.44
280000481Jerusalem_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the holy city of the Jews, sacred also to Christians and Muslims, that lies in the Judaean hills about 20 miles (32 km) from the Jordan River; pop. 562,000. From 1947, the city was divided between the states of Israel and Jordan until the Israelis occupied the whole city in June 1967 and proclaimed it the capital of Israel although it is not accepted as such by the United Nations. It is revered by Christians as the place of Christ's death and resurrection and by Muslims as the site of the Dome of the Rock.45
280000482RomanovThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ dynasty was the second and last imperial dynasty to rule over Russia.46
280000483TsarThe _ _ _ _ (Also spelled Czar) was the absolute Monarch of Russia, not bound by any code of laws, and in no way Socialist.47
280000484Martin Luther_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wrote the 95 thesis which changed the way the church worked.48
280000485Issac Newton_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ created calculus and wrote the Principia Mathematica.49
280000486Temujin_ _ _ _ _ _ _ was related on his father's side to Khabul Khan, Ambaghai and Hotula Khan who had headed the Khamag Mongol confederation.50
280000487seppukuThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was a ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society.51
280000488RenasissanceThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ means a rebirth/a renewal/a revival of humanism in the 14th-16th century Europe.52
280000489RoleThe _ _ _ _ of noble woman in the 11th century was getting less lenient.53
280000490PopulationThe effect of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ growth on the 10th century economy was it made people need more things.54
280000491Feudalism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which land granted by the Crown to the nobility.55
280000492Manorialism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the political, economic, and social system by which peasants of medieval Europe were doing all the work and were at the bottom.56
280000493Song of RolandThe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is the oldest surviving major work of French literature.57
280000494The Great Schism_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ asted for about 68 years, during which time there were two popes claiming authority over the Catholic Church.58

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