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Freshman World History Allen Spring Semester Final
Freshman World History Allen Spring Semester Final(Faith Christian School)
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9th Grade
05/24/2011

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What did Wilhelm do?
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invented calculus
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what did Descartes do?
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"I think, therefore, I am."
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What did Harvey do?
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Described the human circulatory system
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What did Newton do?
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laws of motion and gravitation
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What did Copernicus do?
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challenged Ptolemy's geocentric theory
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What did Kepler do?
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used math to test Copernicus' theory
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What did Hooke do?
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identified cells in living matter
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What did Boyle do?
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founder of modern chemistry
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what did Galileo do?
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published "Dialogue on the two Great Systems of the world"
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What did Vesalius do?
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he pioneered the study of anatomy
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Where did Amerigo Vespucci sail?
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to America; he questioned Columbus landing in Asia and stated that it was in fact not Asia, but instead a new undiscovered land, America was also named after him
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Where did Vasco Nunez de Balboa sail?
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crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached the South Sea
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where did Ferdinand Magellan sail?
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crossed the Atlantic Ocean and into South America and discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Where did Juan Sebastian de Elanco sail?
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led Magellan's crew and sailed the ship back to Spain after Magellan died
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where did Juan Ponce de Leon sail?
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he sailed to Florida
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where did Nunez cabeza de Vaca sail?
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explored the southern coast of North America, the southwest, and Mexico
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Where did Hernan Cortes sail?
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sailed to the Yucatan Peninsula, and traveled to Mexico
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where did Franciso Pizaro sail?
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he sailed to south america
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Where did Bartholomeu Dias sail?
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he sailed around the cape of good hope around the southern tip of Africa
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where did Vasco de Gama sail?
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across the Indian Ocean and into India
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The Treaty of Tordesillas
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The treaty that moved the border line drawn by Pope Alexander VI further west
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the passage of history through songs, poems, and stories
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oral tradition
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through whom a matrilineal society traces one's heritage and transfers one's property
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the mother
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where ancient sub-saharan people generally lived
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independent villages
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whether or not ancient sub-saharan people believed in only one god
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they were polytheistic; they believed in many gods
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what gold was often traded for in Saharan Africa
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salt
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from which historic era the renaissance developed
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middle ages
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from what country the renaissance first originated
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Italy
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the general philosophy of life the renaissance promoted
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humanism
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the names of the two families in england that were at odds with one another
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Yorks and Lancasters
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the two armies that joined together to fight the Muslims in the second crusade
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France and Holy Roman Empire(Germany)
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the two branches of the French Royal family that began to fight with each other during the 100 years' war
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Burgundy and Orleans
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the name of the agreement that allowed German rulers to choose the religion for their respective state
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peace of augsburg
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The people group that emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, who are considered the forerunners of modern Mexicans
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Aztec
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THe people group known as the "children of the sun" who occupied modern day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile
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Inca
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What were calvinists in France known as
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Huguenots
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what contributed to the emergence of the Renaissance
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trade routes, Roman empire ruins, Byzantine scholars, Crusades
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what contributed to the decline of Kiev
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Kievan princes fighting amongst themselves, Italian trade routes, Polovstian raids
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which of the Germanic tribes became the most influential
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Franks
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Why Charlemagne's empire collapsed
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his successors were weak leaders
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what change king William made to the feudal system after assuming the throne of England
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he took power away from the nobles by establishing fiefs directly with the common people
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what King Philip IV of France did to anger Pope Boniface VIII
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demanded the Catholic Clergy to be taxed
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what is true about Charlemagne
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he was religious, intelligent, he united most of Europe, and he was known as emperor of the Romans
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the people group led by its military class who invaded central Mexico and built pyramid shaped buildings
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Spaniards
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the agreement that was signed establishing the Pope as having spiritual authority and the king as having political authority
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concordat of worms
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who were the first to begin questioning the Catholic Church at the beginning of the era known as the reformation
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humanists
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who the first European was to use movable type for printing
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Gutenberg
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what the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history were called
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the humanities
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a phrase that best describes the period known as the "renaissance"
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rebirth, a season of new beginnings
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whether or not the arts became an important way of communicating ideals during the Renaissance
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yes, the arts were very important
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the two primary countries of the "Holy Roman Empire" and the "Roman Empire" that never united
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Italy and Germany
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why the king of england decided to separate the country from the Catholic Church
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so he could divorce his wife
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the diet of worms
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meeting of the Holy Roman Empire where Martin Luther was restrained
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what women could not bear a son for the king of England
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Catherine of Aragon
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the new church formed in England as a result of the break away form the Catholic Church
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Anglican
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who ultimately gave the king of England the right to divorce his wife
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himself; the king of England
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whether of not a type of "reformation" began in England long before Martin Luther's reforms in Germany
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yes, there had been previous reformations
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mercantilism
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when a country exports more goods than it imports to increase wealth of the nation in order to improve the standard of living
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the technological advances of the Age of Exploration
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maps, ship building, astrolabe, and compass
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who the founder of the Jesuits was
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Ignatius de Loyola
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What Pope started the Catholic Reformation
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Pope John Paul III
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who came from France to continue the work of the reformation in Switzerland after Vicar of Zurich
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John calvin
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what authority Protestantism is based upon
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Calvinism
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did Calvinism or Arminianism believe in pre destination
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Calvinism
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what the Great Schism is
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two Popes existed in a divided papacy, one in France, the other in Italy
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the name of a very advanced culture that occupied the Yucatan peninsula
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Mayans
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the name of the document King John was forced to sign in response to what his actions that changed England forever
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Magna carta
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What the Catholic Church would issue that would shut down all churches and church services in a particular area
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interdict
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what the Kievan economy was primarily based upon
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agriculture and trade
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what caused the Christian Church to finally split in 1054
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the Pope's declaration that iconoclasts were heretics
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the Triangular trade system
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the atlantic slave trade
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What was the second phase in the triangular trade system?
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European ships brought slaves to America
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The Colombian Exchange
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interaction between the so-called old and new worlds
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the importance of colonies in mercantilism
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they often had raw materials that was not grown in the home nation
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in the guild system, what a person could be called after he completed the second stage of training
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journeymen
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what groups were involved in the Third Crusade
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Holy Roman Empire, arab-Muslims led by Salah-al Din, French, and English
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What significant problem was encountered after the anglo-saxons defeated the Vikings and Edward the Confessor became the King of England
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Edward was part Norman
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Why the Catholic Church had so much power during the Middle Ages
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no central government
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the civilization in Africa that became an important center of Christianity for 400 years
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Aksum
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What influence Pagans and Muslims had on weakening the Catholic Church
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created skepticism
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the Social-economic system that came about after the collapse of Charlemagne's empire
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feudalism
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what the Russians called Moscow after the defeat of the Mongols
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Third rome
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What Russian ruler finally overthrew the mongols
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Ivan III
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Why Vladimir I chose Eastern Orthodox Christianity over Roman Catholicism and Islam for himself and his nation
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alcohol, anna, and his envoys chose it
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what dominated Kievan culture
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religion and religious themes
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what an opinion that conflicted with official Church doctrine and teaching were called
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heresy
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what are icons
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holy pictures that were used as a focus of worship
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what the primary leaders of the Christian Church were called
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patriarchs
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the name of the capital new capital city formed as a result of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
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Constantinople
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what kingdoms were established in britian after the anglo-saxons invaded it
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northumbria, mercia, wessex
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What started the Hundred years' war between England and France
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King Edward III of England claimed French property
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the name of the contract between a lord and a vassal
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fief
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who received a grant from someone else in the feudal system
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vassal
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who granted land to someone else in the feudal system
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lord
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who started conflict that eventually led to the crusades
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muslims
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the name of the action taken by the church against heresy
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excommunication
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who the Pope sent to northern Germany in search of resources for his project
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johann tetzel
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the earliest known culture (people group) in Mexico, who left eight very large stone heads made of basalt form mines 50 miles away
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Olmec
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what englishman began to question the wealth and immortality of the Catholic clergy, and eventually translated the Bible from Latin to English
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John Wycliffe
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Why it was so difficult for the Holy Roman Empire to maintain power
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with so many Germanic tribes the position was designed for more prestige than power and control
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the English dynasty that was begun as a result of the family wars in England
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Tudor
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why trade nearly died out in western Europe during the age of feudalism
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manors were self-sufficient
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what occurred as a result of the Crusade
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the decline of feudalism
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who won the third Crusade
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Muslims
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What project the Pope commissioned to distract people from those who were criticizing the church
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rebuild st. peters basilica
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the eventual victor of the second crusade
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Muslims
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why Christians warriors were called "crusaders"
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the crusaders wore crossed on their clothing. the latin word cruciata means marked with a cross
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who asked the Pope for help against Muslim invaders
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French and Norman nobles
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the difference between the "Roman Empire" and the "Holy Roman Empire"
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Roman empire is Italy, and Holy Roman Empire is Germany
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who invaded Constantinople and the Holy Land, which in turn resulted in the First Crusade
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Muslims
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what king John did that changed England forever
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taxed the nobles
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which of the three kingdoms in great Britain became the most influential
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Wessex
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How the Habsburg family affected the Holy Roman Empire
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they were emperors and they created the Habsburg monarchy
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the name of the vast areas of relatively dry grasslands dotted with a few trees and bushes
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savannah
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the group of closely related languages that spread across central and southern Africa
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Bantu
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what contributed to the revival of trade in northern Europe
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Viking trade routes
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why did trade begin to revive in Italy
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the church kept feudalism from completely taking root and italy was geographically awesome because it is surrounded by water
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what the markets were called that were designed to meet the increasing demand for good from other areas of Europe and Asia
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fairs
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what animals were the carries of the diseases that caused the Black Death during the Middle Ages
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rats
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what traveling poets and singers were called during the Middle Ages
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troubadors
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why the desire for education increased in the Middle Ages
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they wanted to learn how to read and write on their own
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what caused independent nations and states to rise up in Europe after the decline of feudalism
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kings started to build up kingdoms
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what the king of England needed most to sustain his war with France
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money
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the means by which the king of England could get what he needed to sustain his war with France
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taxes
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the name of the 16-year-old girl who claimed to hear form God that she was to defend the city named after her branch of the royal family
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Joan of Arc
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What Martin Luther did when Johann Tetzel started to sell indulgences
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posted his protests on the church doors
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the popes response to the 95 theses
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excommunication of Martin Luther
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what the 95 theses were
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Martin Luther's list of grievances against the Catholic Church
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who banished Martin Luther from the Holy Roman Empire
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the Pope, Pope Leo X
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How Johann Tetzel secured the money for the Pope's project
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indulgences
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the influence of the Hohenzollerns
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to seek more power and influence in Europe
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What factors contributed to Russia's isolation form western Europe
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mongol domination,western civilization from Constantinople, Eastern Orthodox Religion, Cyrillic alphabet, landlocked
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where Louis XIV built his palace
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Versailles
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