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  1. 4. A Chinese philosophy that focused on the indescribable force of nature that governed the universe
  2. 5. "_ Revolution" - The period of extensive economic change in Europe from 1400 to 1750, characterized by economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism
  3. 8. The beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living that people develop through living together
  4. 10. "Protestant _" -The widespread religious movement that eventually split the Church in Western Europe and created several new churches
  5. 13. A trade route that stretched from China to the Mediterranean Sea
  6. 15. The science or practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the raising of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
  7. 17. Stylized pictures representing words, syllables, or sounds
  8. 18. The stretch of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East
  9. 22. People sent to spread their religions
  10. 23. The representative body in England that advised the king
  11. 25. "_ Empire" - The largest contiguous land empire in history, which stretched from China to Eastern Europe during the 1200s and 1300s
  12. 26. The philosophical and artistic movement in Europe that centered on a revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
  13. 28. A system in which kings and other powerful nobles grant land to other nobles in return for loyalty, military assistance, and other services
  14. 30. Ruler of the Franks from 768 to 814, who expanded the Frankish empire extensively and was eventually named “Emperor of the Romans”
  15. 32. The belief in multiple gods
  16. 33. A Japanese title that means General
  17. 34. A knot system used in Andean civilizations to record information
  18. 36. A unique culture that developed along the East African coast; also a Bantu language with Persian and Arabic influences
  19. 37. The feeling of loyalty to a country as a whole
  20. 38. The name given to the Germanic peoples of Scandinavia
  21. 39. Muslims who believed that consensus of the Islamic community established religious and civil authority
  22. 40. "_ Revolution" - The transformation of thinking that occurred in the 1500s and 1600s that focused on a new system of investigation based on observation, experimentation, and the principle of doubt
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  1. 1. "_ Empire" - Another name for the Eastern Roman Empire
  2. 2. The belief in one god
  3. 3. An economic theory that says a country’s government should do all it could in order to increase wealth, which would increase its power
  4. 6. The way of life in monasteries and convents
  5. 7. A work of art created by arranging or moving objects (usually stones or earth) within a landscape
  6. 9. A period of relative peace and stability across the Mongol Empire between 1304 and the 1360s
  7. 11. The title used by rulers of the Islamic empire, which means “successor to the Prophet”
  8. 12. The name given to the period of deterioration in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
  9. 14. A system in which the ruler, often a monarch, holds all of the political power
  10. 16. The term used to refer to the period before writing
  11. 19. The prophet and founder of Islam
  12. 20. A curve of land in the Middle East stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea where there is a lot of fertile farmland
  13. 21. A family of rulers in which the right to rule passes on within the family
  14. 24. The very wealthy ruler of Mali who brought the kingdom to its peak and made a notable pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324
  15. 27. An important group of Germanic peoples who settled in northern Gaul and began the Merovingian and then Carolingian dynasties
  16. 29. Highly organized societies with complex institutions and attitudes that link a large number of people together
  17. 30. A complete system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that developed during the Zhou dynasty in China and had a lot of important impacts on Chinese society
  18. 31. People who were bound to the land, and who could not leave it without their lord’s permission
  19. 33. A Japanese religion involving prayers and rituals to appease nature spirits
  20. 35. A system involving investment in property and the materials used to make or provide goods and services, wage labor, the use of money to make more money, financial institutions like banks, and complex forms of economic organization