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14599592514What is the time period of the Dark Ages?600 to 1450 CE0
14599596170What two eras is the Dark Ages between?Roman Empire era and Modern Ages era1
14599598426Why was it called the Dark AgesThere was no creativity/enlightenment in Europe2
14599661706True or False: Outside of Europe, it was an Age of EnlightenmentTrue3
14599758781During the Middle/Dark Ages, Europe had _______ trade and cultural impactless4
14599808669With fewer powerful governments, wars were ___________________, which was one reason why living during the Dark Ages had a better life expectancysmaller5
14603526992Instead of centralized governments, Europe in the middle ages had feudalism, a political system based onreciprocal relationships between lords - who owned the land and vassals - who protected the land and were loyal to their lords6
14603528364True or False: A lord can also be a vassalTrue - The lord may be a vassal to an even more important lord7
14603537026The highest level/class in the feudal system was the....king8
14603647271Aside from being a political system, Feudalism is also an ____________________ systemeconomic9
14603676740How does the feudal economic system function?The peasants work the land and keep some of the production to feed themselves, while giving the rest to landowners whose land they work on10
14603686901True or False - There was a lot of freedom and social mobility with the feudal systemFalse - there was absolutely no social mobility and freedom with the feudal system11
14603690645Europe was dominated with ______________________ and ______________________ debate during the Dark/Middle Agessuperstition, religious12
14603693927________________________________ ____ _________________ invented the morality play genreHildegard of Bilgen13
14603700849In the Islamic world or Dar-al-Islam, the Ummayad Dynasty had expanded the empire west to ______________Spain14
14603705659The Ummayad Dynasty also moved the capital to _________________________Damascus15
14605409040The Ummayads kept the Arabs from fraternizing with ____________________ through the empirenon-Arab muslims16
14605429057Later on in 750 CE, a majority of Arabs (non-muslims) .........overthrew the Ummayads17
14605433383The successor to the Ummayads was the .....Abbasids18
14605435088The Abbasids came from the _________________ province of the Islamic empireeastern19
14605438066The Abbasids moved the political center of their empire toBaghdad20
14605437095The Abbassids were conquered by the _____________________ in 1258Mongols21
14605443652True or False: Abbasids were very open to new ideasTrue22
14605446651Some of the Achievements of the Islam...-Baghdad became the center of scholarship with it's immense library. -Arabic replaces Greek -Muslim scholars translated works of Aristotle and Plato -Translated Buddhist and Hindu Manuscripts -Adopted mathematical concepts -adopted the 023
14605454400Ibn SinaThe famous Islamic scientist and philosopher who organized the medical knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs into the Canon of Medicine (standard of medical text books)24
14605456693In Spain, the Islamic _________________ became the center for arts especially architectureCordoba25
14605458729The ___________________________________ ______ ___________________________ was built by Abd-al-Rahman in 785-786Mosque of Cordaba26
14605478186Tang Dynasty(618-907 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was much like the Han, who used Confucianism. This dynasty had the equal-field system, a bureaucracy based on merit, and a Confucian education system.27
14605480411The Tang Dynasty made the Chinese government more of a ______________________meritocracy28
14706383142Abbasids fought Tang Dynasty for Land in Central Asia in what important BattleBattle of the Talas River29
14706389843Who won the Battle of the Talas RiverAbbasids30
14706393952How long did the Song Dynast Last960-125831

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