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The Mongol Script that Chinggis Khan ordered created was based on

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Uighur script

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Central Asian nomads' trade good included

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horses

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Many positions in the Mongol Empire's administration went to

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Uighur

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The Khmer Empire was centered in modern day

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Cambodia

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During the rule of Khubilai in China

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the Chinese were treated as legally inferior to all non-Chinese

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According to Al-Biruni, one of the two most important barriers to Hindu-Muslim communication in India was

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language

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A specialist profession among the Mongol people was the

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black smith

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The most important weapon Mongol boys trained with was the

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Compound bow

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At the death of Chinggis Khan his empire

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was divided into four parts among his descendants

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The Mongols own purpose in pursuing conquest was

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to seize loot in the form of land, riches and people

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Mongol children learned to ride on

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goats

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The Turkish shamanistic religion included worship of

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horses

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Political organization among nomadic herding peoples was generally based on

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clan ties

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The Eastern Turks

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frequently raided into China

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In China the Mongols system of tax farming

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sold tax licenses to Central Asian Muslim merchants.

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The most popular form of Buddhism among the samurai

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Zen

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What invention helped to improve the education and scholarly culture of Song China?

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Printing of books

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The immensely learned Zhu Xi is generally credited with the

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full development of Ne o-confucianism

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How did the Song prevent the Khitans from invading

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Paying them tribute to prevent attacks

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Taizu became the first emperor of the Song when chosen by

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the army

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For the samurai, the term "Bushido" referred to

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a code of conduct by which they were to live their lives.

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The system of rule in which Japanese emperors abdicated but continued to exercise power through surrogates is called

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cloistered government

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Men such as Ouyang Xiu, Sima Guang, Su Shi, Shen Gua were all

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Chinese scholar officials

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By the end of the thirteenth century, most land in Japan was

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untaxed but controlled by lords

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Koryo built a wall at the Yalu River in the eleventh century to help keep out

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Kihitans

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The first Kamakura shogun was

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Yoritomo

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Pure land Buddhism appealed to ordinary people becuase it

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taught that simple faith was enough for salvation

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In the first half of the Song period, what linked Kaifeng to the south

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Grand Canal

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The Kamakura government was weakened by

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Mongol invasions

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In the eleventh, century, Fujiwara Michinage left the Heian court, which he controlled to

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join a Buddhist monastery but continue to run Japan.

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The primary principle of the Magna Carta is that

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all Englishmen, except those in the church, must obey the law

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Why did the marauding Magyars

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The were believed to be returning Huns.

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Christian expansion into Spain was facilitated by

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civil wars between the Muslim regions

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What is the demesne

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The lords portion of the land

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Chivalry

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a code of conduct

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What was the basic unit of medieval rural life

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the manor

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A cathedral was officially the seat of whom

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A bishop

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In 1358 the French peasantry exploded in an uprising known as the

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Jacquerie

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The hanseatic League was

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a trading union of northern European cities

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Which nation won the Hundred Years War, in part thanks to the efforts of Joan of Arc?

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France

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Henry II England claimed lordship over the Aquitaine through

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marriage to Eleanor

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The most powerful position a woman could hold in medieval society was

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abbess

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Medieval university students were considered a part of what class

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Clergy

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The term Middle Ages

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describes a period historians consider to be barbaric

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Medieval people blamed whom for causing the Black Death

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Jews

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Pluralism was the practice of some Catholic priest to

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have more than one benefice

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Rich individuals sponsored artist and works of art

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to glorify themselves and their families

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One cause of the Low Countries rebellion against the Habsburg dynasty was

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the spread of Calvinism and Philip II inheritance of the Low Countries

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One of the new roles for women in the Protestant world was to represent

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the superiority of marriage over celibacy

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The Edict of Nantes

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granted the Huguenots the right to public worship in 150 towns

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Fifteenth-century Renaissance paintings of religious or classical themes often featured

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living people used as models

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The text cities Francesco Petrarch as an example of

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humanist who sought to reconnect with the classical past

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During the Renaissance, in the field of art

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portrait paintings became more realistic in style.

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As a result of the Renaissance

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the gulf, between the learned minority and uneducated majority increased

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The Geneva Consistory was

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Calvinist pastors and laymen who monitored citizen behavior

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One territory in which Henry VIII Protestant agenda led to severe division was

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Ireland

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Using similar moves of power consolidation, Henry VIII of England and Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain diminished the power of the

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aristocracy

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What happened to the last Arab-held territory in western Europe in 1492

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It was captured by the Spanish

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In general divorce in the early Protestant world was

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rare

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According to the Dutch humanist Erasmus, the key to moral improvement was

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education for women

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