Final Exam Review !!

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  1. 3. This city ruled a large part of Europe up to the 5th century AD. It would continue to be the power center of western Christianity beyond the Middle Ages
  2. 4. A part of Western Europe that was dominated by an Islamic caliphate through most of the MIddle Ages
  3. 6. This valuable mineral would be traded for gold in West Africa making kingdoms like Ghana and Mali very wealthy
  4. 7. While primarily responsible for maintaining Christianity, this class of post-classical Europeans were the primary record keepers and intellectuals of Medieval Europe
  5. 10. When this Frankish leader forced his men to accept this, he began the process of using Christianity as a way to unite and rule Germanic peoples who followed the fall of Rome
  6. 11. an architectural expression of the strong faith ingenuity and growing economies of towns of Europe in the High Middle Ages
  7. 12. This east African cultural region grew wealthy on Indian Ocean trade. The SPICE that developed here was a rich blend of Bantu African and Arab culture and Islam would have a strong influence in this region.
  8. 15. self sufficient economic units where serfs worked the land to produce the goods people needed to live.
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  1. 1. The governing class of Europe's feudal order. They did not engage in the production or exchange of goods. They lived on collecting taxes from the peasantry.
  2. 2. The conquest of this city would be the focus of most of the Crusades beginning in 1096 AD.
  3. 5. Continent from which our species began. Migrations from here as early as 80,000 years ago would people the earth.
  4. 6. A peasant bound to the land in the Middle Ages. While he was not a slave who could be bought or sold, he was under the direct control of a local lord for whom he owed service and obedience
  5. 8. Fierce seafaring marauders who attacked WEstern Europe and would eventually reach and settle Iceland, Greenland and even Newfoundland in the Middle Ages.
  6. 9. This “maid of Orleans” claimed that God commanded her to save France and its monarchy who were facing English forces in the Hundred Years War. While she initially helped the French forces claim vistories, The English would capture her and burn her at the stake as a witch.
  7. 13. The ___ road was navigated by merchants with camels and would connect the societies of sub-Saharan Africa with the Mediterranean coast.
  8. 14. Head of the Christian church in the west. Was the nearest thing Western Europe had to the old Roman emperors