Final Review IV

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  1. 4. As trade grew in Europe’s High and Late Middle Ages, this institution developed to hold and loan capital to support peasants who moved to the city and wanted to build businesses.
  2. 6. A Roman town that was buried by a volcanic eruption and thus was well preserved for historians.
  3. 7. The Mali King ____ Musa was said to be the richest man on earth when he ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th Century
  4. 9. King of the FRanks, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. He tried and failed to rebuild unity in Europe as his kingdom would be divided by his grandchildren
  5. 10. A rule of law based on Islamic scriptures.
  6. 11. This capital of the Mali Empire was a center of Islamic learning in West Africa
  7. 12. Home of the Islamic house of wisdom, it was a center of learning and the capital of the Abbasid caliphate
  8. 15. The ___ Ages of European History are also known as the Early Middle Ages and are marked by a decline of interdependence following the fall of the WEstern Roman Empire
  9. 16. Following the oral tradition of story-tellers, these important people of post classical African societies connected their audiences with history of their society
  10. 17. Site of the Kaaba, all Muslims are required to pray in the direction of this city 5 times a day
  11. 19. The type of alphabet used in most western civilizations today
  12. 20. One of the 5 pillars of Islam, this is the required pilgrimage to Mecca made by Muslims
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  1. 1. Meaning “middle time” in Latin, this was the period of European history when European nations began to form.
  2. 2. A political system built on personal ties of loyalty that are exchanged for a specific right to a piece of territory. It helped govern societies where distant central governments were not effective during Europe’s High Middle Ages.
  3. 3. A state ruled under the law of Islam
  4. 5. Roman architectural structures made for staging gladiatorial contests. The Colosseum in Rome is perhaps the most famous example of this
  5. 8. Traversed by camels, the ___ road was a trade route that connected sub Saharan African societies with the Mediterranean Sea
  6. 13. A number system that came to the west through the Middle East, it is used around the world today and uses a base 10 system.
  7. 14. The Islamic traveler Ibn _____ was sad to have traveled throughout the Islamic world from China to West Africa a century before Marco Polo’s famous journey to China
  8. 18. The Arabic word for God