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1st semester people and places
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History
7th Grade
01/22/2009

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Isadore of Charax
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wrote letters to help make maps
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Xuanzang
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A Chinese pilgrim who journied over 5000 miles from China to India and back to collect Buddhist teachings.
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Ibn Battuta
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Traveled to the Holy city of Mecca and liked traveling, so he traveled for 3 years going to; Arabia, asia, Africa, and Spain.
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Ceasar Agustus
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adopted by Julius Ceaser and ended chaos and power struggles.
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Diocletian
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in 284 B.C., he divided Rome into 4 parts.
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Constantine
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Made Constantinople. He was a Roman Emperor.
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Constantinople
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Thought as "New Rome". Remained under Constantine untill the Turks captured it.
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Huns
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A fierce group of nomadic warriors.
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Justinian
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He was an emperor during riots, and barely managed to keep the empire alive.
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Mecca
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Muslims believe it is related to Ishmael and Abraham's story. One of the five pillars of Islam say that you have to travel there once in your lifetime.
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Ka'Bah
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A cubed shaped shrine (Muslim's house of worship). Now it has idols that they worship.
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Muhammad
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A meccan who believed that God talked to him through a meditation, and the "revelation" is written down in the Koran.
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Abu Bakr
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Restored calm and faith to muslims after MuMu's death.
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Shiites
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A tribe that thinks that the caliph should be a descendant of MuMu.
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Sunni
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They thought that the Calif could be anyone.
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Umayyads
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Charles Martel
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Abd al Rahman
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Mansa Musa
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Vasco de Gama
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The Great Enclosure
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Mwene Mutapa
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Mbanza
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Genghis Khan
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Kublai Khan
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Timur the Lame
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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1500-1566;(north)hungry, (south)Egypt, (west) Algeria, (east) Mesopotaima
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Istanbul
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capital of the ottoanm empire
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Emperor Wen
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reignited china, and started rebuliding the wall.
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ming dynasty
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1644-1912; 60 million people by 1850 to 450 million
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honshu
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one of the 4 main islands
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