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The Mayagers
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were origionally from western asia
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the "hierarchihiical" fief holding system in which vassals in turn had vassals owing their services was known as
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subinfeudination
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new technalogical developments in agricultural included
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iron hoes, the use of a carruca, the use of horseshoes, and the use of the three field system
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manoralism in the eleventh and twelth centuries
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meant serfs could not leave the estate without the lord's permission
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the basic staple of the peasant diet was
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bread
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in medieval society, who could become a knight?
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the sons of nobility
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justinian's conquests
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restored the imperial mediterranean world
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justinian's most important contributation to wester civilization may have been his
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coidification of law
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the byzantine empire by the year 1025
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reached its largest territorial size since the seventh century
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pope urban II at the council of clermont in 1095:
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promiced remissions on sins for all men who joined the crucades
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leaders of the second crusade:
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emperor conrad III of Germany, King Louis VII of france, and saint bernard of Claivaux
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consequences of the fourth crusade:
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the byzantine empire was eventually restored into mediterranean power, the city of constantinople was sacked by the crusaders, the cenetians managed to destory their economic competition
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overall, the crusades
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failed in their efforts to keep the Holy Land for Christians
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what was the manner of political/economic orginization of the arabs who settled in the arabian peninsula in the 7th century?
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a loosely connected tribal society who shephereded or raided trading bands
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the cardinal principal of the islamioc faith is that there is only one God and ___ is his most important and final prophet
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Muhammad
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Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 is known as the
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Hegira
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the successors to Muhammad's leadershiop of the Muslim world were known as
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caliphs
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the islamic city in spain that served as the umayyad capital was eyrope's largest city after constantinople was
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cordoba
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what were the two divisions of islam?
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shi'ites and sunnies
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what did abu abase do to the umayyad dynasty?
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ended the dynasty and began the abbasid dynasty
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the reforms of the gaius and tiberius gacchus
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resulted in further instability and violence as the conflict erupted between different social groups
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sulla's legacy and importance was
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that he became the example of how the army could be used to wield political power in rome
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what were some results of the roman wars of 43-41 b.c.?
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the defeat of caser's assassins, the demise of republican institutions, and the rule of octavian
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constantine's most enduring reform, and his biggest project was
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creation of a "new rome" on the bosphorus
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the____rule became the fundamental form on monastic life in the western church:
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benadictine
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western europe monasticism was NOT characterized by
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the monks living in great wealth
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after the death of clovis
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his son charles martel came to the frankish throne
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guilt under the germanic customary law was determined by
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compurgation and ordeal
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pope gregory the great
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created the foundation for an independent papal state
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the primary instrument of pope gregory for converting the pagen peoples of germanic europe was
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monasticism
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the coronation of charlemagne in the year 8-- as emperor of the romans:
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symbolized the foundation of a new european civilization
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charlemagne's carolingian renaissane was charaterized by:
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the religous works produced by the benedictine monastic scriptoria
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monasteries in the early middle ages were well known for
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providing hospitality and shelter to weary travelers
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the counterpart to the pope in rome
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the patriarch
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the idea that divine forces would protect the innocent
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ordeal
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wergeld
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the amount of money paid by a wrong doers family to the victim
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compurgation
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trial by jury, you say what you think happened, 12-15 people had to agree
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which group of people had most lasting germanic kingdom
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the franks
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who established the frankish kingdom
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clovis
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what helped to alieviate hard life from peasantss
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feast days from clergy , holy days
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what three groups created feudalism?
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vikings, muslims, and the manguers who were people from hungary
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atilla
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leader of the huns
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missy domunichi
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messengers of the frankish empire
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who called for crusades to take place?
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pope urban II
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what is the holiest city in islam?
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mecca
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who wrote the rules of living a monk life?
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st. bonedict
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the name for writing rooms in monastaries
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scriptorios
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who were the heads of christian communities
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abbots
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the name of an unbeliever
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infidel
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a heavy wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
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carruca
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the practice of living life as a monk
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monasticisim
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the basis of feudalism
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minorialism
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the name of the pilgrimage to mecca
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the hajj
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the name of the journey of muhammed and his followers
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the hegira
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the first frankish king to be annointed in a holy ceramony by the pope was
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charlemagne
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statements about the vikings:
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christiniaty assimilateed them into european civilization, their raids and settlements aided the growth of fief holding, and their weapons and superior shipbuilding were largely responsabile for their sucessful raids
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feudalism of medieval europe was primarily
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a rigid hierarchial system that varried from place to place
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the lord vassal relationship of medieval europe
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was an honorable relationship between free men based on loyalty
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the aristocracy of the middle ages
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was reguarded was the "defender of Christian society"
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the must lucrative (money making) industry in constantinople was
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silk
