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History
10th Grade
01/13/2009

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Catal Huyuk
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a village in Southern Turkey that became a civilization in 3000 B.C.E
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barbarians
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a greek word meaning uncivilized
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Sumerians
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Group that developed the cuneiform alphabet, which was the first human writing.
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Hammurabi's code of law
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rules of procedure for courts of law and regulated property rights and duties of family members, harsh punishments for crime
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Shi Huangdi
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a brutal chinese ruler who made the great wall of China
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Kung Fuzi
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the name of Confucius the philosopher who wrote the book analects and had a system of ethics for all levels of social class.
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Laozi
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a popular daoist who stressed that nature contains a divine impulse that directs all life.
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five classics
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a set of historical treaties, speeches, and other political materials in the Zhou dynasty
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ashoka
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chandraguptas grandson who improved trade and communication and extensive road network in India
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reincarnation
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the thought that souls do not die, but pass into other beings.
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Buddha
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the starter of Buddhism called the "enlightened one"
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stupas
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spherical shrines to Buddha
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Pericles
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a famous Greek political figure who helped to restrain agressive views of Athenian democrats.
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Hannibal
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a Carthage general who defeated the Romans in the second Punic war and led elephants over the Himalayas
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doric, ionic, corinthians
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types of columns
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Cicero
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a leading politician in the Roman Senate and a major Latin writer
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shintoism
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Japanese religion that involves worshipping many gods and spirits of nature
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Islam
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a major world religion started by Muhammad
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diocletian
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The Roman ruler that persecuted Christians that ruled before Constantine
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Justinian
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the Roman emporer that made a code that bore his name
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Khadijah
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the wife of Muhammad
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zakat
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a tax for charity
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Abu bakr
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one of Muhammad's closest friends who worked as a merchant and a military commander
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dhimmi
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"people of the Book"
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Saladin
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a strong Muslim leader that reconquered most of the crusade outposts
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shah-nama
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an epic poem called "the book of kings" written by Firdawski.
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Muhammad ibn Qaism
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an arab general who was successful in battle and declared the indus valley as Ummayad territory
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kabir
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a muslim weaver who composed many poems
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sundiata
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a musmlim leader whose exploits were celebrated in a great oral tradition
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timbuktu
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a port city on the Niger river
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Sunni Ali
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a dynamic leader of the Songhay empire
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Great Zimbabwe
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a large site that housed local rulers and subchiefs
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Hagia Sophia
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a church built by Justinian's builders
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Cyril and Methodius
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orthodoz missionaries sent to Czech and Slovak republics to convert others to Christianity.
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Vladimir I
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a Roman prince that forced subjects into Roman Catholicism through military action
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boyars
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russian aristocrats
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William the conquerer
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a french duke that uphelp a strict feudal system
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Gregory VII
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pope that tried to break the church from interference from feudal lords
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Peter Abelard
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wrote the treatise "yes and no"
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guilds
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grouped people in the same business or trade in a single city
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aztecs
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the civilization in the Americas in the 1100's along with the Incas
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calpulli
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a kin group
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chinampas
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a system of agriculture that involves beds of aquatic weeds,mud, and earth put into frames and surrounded by water
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tambos
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roads or way stations
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Yangdi
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the son of Wendi who murdered his father to get to the throne
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neo-confucians
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revivers of ancient confucianism teachings
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footbinding
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the practice for chinese women to make their feet smaller
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Li Bo
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the most famous poet of the Tang era
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