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Western Civ Midterm
Shelton
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History
9th Grade
12/18/2007

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* German Princes met at Worms to
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Force Luther to recant his criticism of the the papacy
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Petrarch famous for writing
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sonnet
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* predestination
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god determines the fate of every person
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
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John calvin
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Italian interest in classical tradition was fueled by
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roman heritage in Italy and contact with Byzantine scholars
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* Europe from the 1500s on could be roughly described as
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divisions between the Protestant North and the Catholic South
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Rabalias is best know as the author of
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comic tales, satires and parodies
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Zwinglis defeat by the Catholics ended his hope of creating a theocracy in
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Zurich
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* Opponents of Catholic rituals in the Protestant English Church became known as
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puritans
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*Martin Luther criticized the sale of
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certificates of indulgence
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*Ties between the Catholic Church and England were weakened by
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Henry VIII decision to marry Anne Boleyn
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* THe purchase of a certificate of indulgences was supposed to provide
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a redeuction of punishment for sins
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* Lutheranism emphasized all of the following EXCEPT:

- the importance of occupations outside of the church

- the use of the Bible as the sole source of religious truth

- the achievement of sa

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NOT the use of Latin in church services
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* During the 1540's, Catholic Church leaders
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embarked on an ambitious reform program
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* The Renaissance begain the city-state of
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Italy
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*The author of the Prince
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Machiavelli
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* Excommunicated Luther
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Leo X
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* Inventor of the movable type printing press
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Gutenburg
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* His divorce precipitated English/Catholic rift
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Henry VIII
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* author of Utopia
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Thomas Moore
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* painted the Last Supper
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Leonardo da Vinci
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* Founder of the Jesuits
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Ignatius of Loyola
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* Rejected Catholic rituals in the English Church
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Puritanism
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* Blended Protestant beliefs and Catholic features
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Elizabeth I
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* Designed dome for Cathederal of Florence
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Brunelleschi
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* a church-run state
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theocracy
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Luther posted his theses on a church here
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Wittenberg
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* Site where Anabaptists briefly gained power
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Munster
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All of the following occurred duing the reign of Catherin the Great EXCEPT:

 

- the release of nobles from government service

- the freeing of Russian serfs

- the acquisition of prev

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NOT - the freeing of Russian serfs
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The czar who built St. Petersburg and endorsed wester European customs was
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Peter I
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* The long-ruling French monarch known as the Sun King
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Louis XIV
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* All of the following groups were religious minorities EXCEPT

 

- Protestants

- Marranos

- Moriscos

- Castilians

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Castilians
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* After achieving control of the government, Cardinal Richelieu set out to
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build an absolute French monarchy
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* Mary Queen of Scots was exececuted after
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being accused of plotting with foreign Catholics
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* The Edict of Nantes decreed that
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people of all faiths were guaranteed complete religious freedom ???
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The theory of divine right proposed that
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a ruler derived absolute authority to rule from God
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Spanish Jews who converted to Christianity
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Marranos
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* Founder of the Bourbon dynasty
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Henry IV
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* Spains' most powerful Monarch
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Philip II
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* Advisor to Louis XIII
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Richelieu
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* England's ruling dynasty from 1485 to 1603
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Tudor
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* First Tudor monarch
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Henry VII
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* Resented Castilian dominance
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Aragon
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* Russia's "window to the West"
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St. Petersburg
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* Monarch that refused to marry
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Elizabeth I
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* Dynasty that ruled Russia until 1917
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Romanov
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* succeeded the Tudor dynasty
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Stuart
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* Location of Louis XIV's palace
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Versailles
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The representatives ofthe plebians were called
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tribunes
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Diocletian issued the Edict of Prices in an attempt to
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control severe inflation
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Early Rome was divided into two main social classes:
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slaves and free citizens
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Tiberius Gracchus was killed after proposing a law to
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reduced provencial taxes
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In 49 BC,Julius Caesar began a civil war by
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leading his troops across the Rubicon RIver
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THe first Punic War began when Rome resisted
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Carthage's attempt to seize the Strait of Messina
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In 60 BC, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus formed a governing group called
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triumverate
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The first emporor of Rome toot the tile
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Augustus
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The growing success of provincial and mainland latifundia resulted in
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the migration of landless farmers to Rome
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The Visigoth chief who captured Rome in AD 410
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Attila
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Overthrew the Etruscans
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Latins
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Originally Byzantium
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Canstantinople
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assinnated Caesar
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Brutus and Cassius
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led by Attila
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Huns
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one of the good Emperors
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Marcus Aurelius
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one of Rome's legendary twins
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Remus
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Aphrodite to the Greeks
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Venus
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Roman soldiers
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legionaries
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island southwest of the Italian Peninsula
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Sicily
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defeated Hannibal near Carthage
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Scipio
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Rome's upper class
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patricians
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Rome's German ruler
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Odoacer
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refused to fight in the army
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plebians
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Spartan society was notable for
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an emphasis on military and atheletic ability
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All of the following are charcteristic of Greek religion EXCEPT

- belief in gods with human forms and characteristics

- use of oracles to predict the future

- a belief in the existence of powe

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- NOT Earth Mother
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The public square where the Peloponnesian War by an alliance led by the
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agora
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Athens was defeated during the Pelopennesian War by an alliance led by the
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Spartans
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Spartan society was notable
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emphasis on military and athletic ability
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Hellenic traditions and stories were recorded in epic poems composed by
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bards
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Words such as police and politics derive from the Greek word polis, meaning
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city-state
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The Iliad tells the story of
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war between Trojans and Mycenaens
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Farmers on the Greek mainland could concentrate on growing export crops because
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Two Aegean civilzations that preceded the Greeks were the
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Minoans and Mycenaeans
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From 500 BC and 336 BC, many Greek city states were rulled by a small group of wealthy people. Such a political systems are referred to as
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oligarchies
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legendary blind poet
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Homer
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site of devistating defeat for the Persians
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Marathon
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Paid for Spartan naval fleet
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Persia
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Famous temple of Athena
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Parthenon
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anti-Persian aliance
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Delian League
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head Greek god
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Zeus
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Hill in the center of Greek city
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acropolis
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Akbar's rule was marked by
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religious tolerance between Islam and Hinduism
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The sankin-kotai system ensured
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the loyalty of daimyos by requiring service in Edo
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The rise of Hong Wu to emperor was unusual because he was
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of paesant origin
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The Shiite form of Islam was practiced by the
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Safavids
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During the Ming dynasty, the rules of China were
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Chinese
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single braids worn by the Chinese
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queues
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the Ming dynasty navy was made up of these
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junks
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Islamic rulers of northern India
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Moguls
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the eyes and ears of the state
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metsuke
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first Jesuit in Japan
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Francis Xavier
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Peasants were enticed to join the Crusades for all of the following reasons

EXCEPT

- freedom from feudal bonds

- the promise of immediate salvation if killed

- the possibility of wealth

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NOT the opportunity to become noblemen.
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The Hundred Years' War was fought between:
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France and England
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By the end of the Hundred Years' War,
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the use of feudal soldiers had mad national armies obsolete.
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Reviewed the policies of Spanish monarchs
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Gregory XI
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Those not bound to the land
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freeholders ????
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Forced Jews and Muslims out of Spain
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Crusaders
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Supported the Lollards
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Richard I
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