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8277014871What happened in 100 BCE to 900 CE?Silk Road in use linking China and Rome0
8277034573What is ummah?Arabic word meaning "community".1
8277110724What did the invention of dhow ships and lateen sails allow?The movement of goods over long distances in the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.2
8277261079The city-states traded with inland kingdoms like Great Zimbabwe to obtain what?Gold, ivory, and iron.3
8277307894What is Sharia?The Migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622, marking the founding of Islam.4
8309791568600-1450 CEEra of forging new and strengthening old connections between various regions throughout the Afro-Eurasian World.5
8309851076What are the five pillars of Islam?Shahada: Faith, Salat: prayer, Zakāt: charity, Shawn: fasting, Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca6
8309886894What are shi'ites?An adherent of the Shia branch of Islam7
8309898059What is Qu'ran?Holy book of Islam8
8309918723Who is Umayyad?member of a Muslim Dynasty that ruled the Islamic world from AD 660 (or 661) to 750 and Moorish Spain from 762 to 1031. The Dynasty claimed descent fro. Umayya, a distant relative of Muhammad9
8309949065What is the caliphateThe rule of reign of a caliph or chief Muslim ruler10
8374782803Who were the two fighting in Hundred Years' War?France and England11
8374849605What were the years of the Hundred Years' War?1337-1453 (116 years)12
8374993324Who was Joan of Arc?A national heroine of France, at age 18 she led the French army to victory over the English at Orléans. Captured a year later, Joan was burned at the stake as a heretic by the English and their French collaborators13
8375129203How did Joan of Arc die?She burned alive14
8416058921Slash and burn (shifting) agriculture terraced farmingMaize, cotton, cacao15
8416098980Classical Mesoamerica: Maya: name 2 things about when preists constructed elaborate calendars1. Solar based on agricultural cycle (365 days) and ritual (260 days) 2. wrote inscriptions on temples/monuments and books on paper or vellum16
8416252812Who was the first to unify central Mexico after the people of Teotihuacan?Toltecs17
8416261139Who were the two rulers?Most famous was Topiltizin, a present acossiated with god Quetzalcoatl (forced into exile)18

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