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| What does the term Paleolithic mean? |
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| The Neolithic revolution occurred first in what part of the world? |
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| Describe the characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization |
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| Tightly organized City State |
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| The Son of Heaven concept was designed to promote what ideas/concepts? |
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| A Divine and Everlasting Emperor |
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| What was a Dynasty in Chinese History? |
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| Who were the the lowest in official chinese social hierarchy aside from Mean people? |
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| How did the Indian Caste system serve as a political instituition? |
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| Where you were on the caste system determind what rights you had |
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| Compared to China, how did indian social and economic structure treat merchants? |
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| Which society had more contact with the outside world, China or India? Why? |
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| India, China was blocked in by natural landforms |
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| Explain why india was more often invaded than china? |
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| The Socratic method emphasized the importance of what? |
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| If the greek genius was politics, the roman genius was? |
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| How did the Roman Empire treated local politicians and local religions? |
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How did the Roman emperors try to content the masses? |
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| The spread of buddhism to china is an example of what idea? |
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| What was one important early sympton of Rome's decline? |
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| Declining populations, weakening economy |
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| Everywhere it spread, Buddhism stressed what idea? |
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| The Possiblity of Salvation |
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| Which continents were affected by Islam in the millenium after 600 AD? |
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| What was the principle advantage of the Islamic concept of the Ummah? |
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| What was Muhammad's teaching with respect to the revelations of other monotheistic religons? |
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| That all other religions were something of a prelude to islam. |
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| The office of the political and religious succesor of Muhammad was called? |
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What accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasaid Empire? |
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| In what year was Jerusalem captured by the Christian Crusaders? |
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| What was the impact of the Christian Crusades of the Christian West? |
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| What was the impact of the Crusades on Islam |
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Smaller that on the Christian West |
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| What does the phrase "equality before god, inequality before men" mean? |
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| What accounts for the success of the First Crusade? |
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| One way cultural exchange |
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| What does the term "Demographic Transition" mean is happening to society |
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The Byzantine Empre Lasted from when to when? |
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| What Civilization/Country was the most important stepchild of the Byzantine civilization? |
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| The Capital of the Byzantine empire and it's commercial center was located where? |
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| What was the great church built in Constantinople by Justinian? |
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Starting with the reign of Justinian, what was the offical language of the eastern empire? |
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| After the seventh century, what group posed the greatest threat to the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire? |
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| What issues were cuases for the split between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches after 1054? |
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| Why did Vladimire the first prefer Orthodox Christianity to Roman Catholicisim? |
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| He felt RC had too much influcence. |
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What group of peoples were responsible for the conquest of Kievan Russia in 1236? |
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What were signs of vitality/growth in the medieval western culture following the Roman Empire? |
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| Increasing Populations and Economy |
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| Following the Fall of Rome, where was the center of the Post-Classical West? |
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The system that described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers was called? |
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| Relationships between members of the military elite based on a reciprocal exchange of land for Military service and loyalty was called? |
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| What belief did the conversion of Germanic kings create among western religous leaders, particularly the pope? |
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| That they had a seperate, superior, power |
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| Pope Gregory VII decreed the practice of Invesituture invalid. What is invesiture? |
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| What was the main threat to Western Vitality at the end of the middle ages? |
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