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Mr A's People and places
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19
History
7th Grade
01/22/2009

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Isadore of Charax
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wrote Parthian Stations
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Xuanzang
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traveled 5000 miles from China to India collecting Buddhist teachings
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Ibn Batuta
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Pilgramiged to Mecca but kept on travelling
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Caesar Augustus
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Put an end to chaos and power struggle in Rome
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Diocletian
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Divided rule of Rome and its capital into four
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Constantine
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chose Byzantium as capital of Rome
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Constantinople
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Byzantium renamed; Constantin's city
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The Huns
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group of nomadic warriors who entered Rome conquering
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Justinian
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Roman emporor politacal king
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Mecca
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Muslim holy city Muslims had to journey there once
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Ka'bah
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Muslims believed Abraham to have built this shrine to God
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Muhammad
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believed to be last and greatest prophet of God
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Abu Bakr
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Restored calm and faith to Muslims
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Shiites
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Alis followers
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Sunni
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those who claimed to follow the Sunna
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Umayyads
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took control and worked to conquer East
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Charles Martel
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continually hammered Muslim armies
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Abd al Rhaman
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he enforced a common language a common coinage and religious architecture
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Mansa Musa
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capital city
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