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  1. 2. served as emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565. Justinian is best remembered for his work as a legislator and codifier
  2. 3. This refers to the relative peace that a large portion of Euroasia experienced during the 13th and 14th centuries due to the unity of the Mongolian Empire.
  3. 5. was the ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. During his reign, Mali was one of the richest kingdoms of Africa
  4. 8. a trading empire that ruled in West Africa from about 830 to 1235
  5. 9. a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s
  6. 12. trading empire that flourished in western Africa from the 13th to the 16th century
  7. 13. a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century
  8. 20. religious wars undertaken by Christians
  9. 21. pilgrimage to Mecca which is the holy city of Islam Muhammad
  10. 23. , a 6th-century Byzantine empress married to Emperor Justinian I, is remembered for being one of the most powerful women in Byzantine history. She used her power and influence to promote religious and social policies that were important to her.
  11. 24. generally regarded to mean “successor of the prophet Muhammad
  12. 26. the period in European history froMiddle Ages on in the 5th century CE to the period of the Renaissance
  13. 28. the knightly class of feudal times
  14. 29. believe that the Prophet did not explicitly declare a successor.
  15. 30. greatest medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous travel books
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  1. 1. the conqueror Duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England
  2. 4. a religion in which they believe in one god called Allah
  3. 6. a group of people in Asia who were known for being ruthless during combat
  4. 7. holy book of islam
  5. 10. a major Abbasid public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad or to a large private library belonging to the Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age.
  6. 11. a national heroine of France. She was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans
  7. 14. The resulting split divided the European Christian church into two major branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
  8. 15. intermittent struggle between England and France in the 14th–15th century over a series of disputes, including the question of the legitimate succession to the French crown
  9. 16. the supreme court under the ancien régime in France. It developed out of the Curia Regis
  10. 17. brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia under the rule of himself and his family in a rigidly disciplined military state.
  11. 18. the creator of Islam
  12. 19. a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land, known as a fiefdom or fief, in exchange for service or labour.
  13. 22. was he first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law
  14. 25. the Islamic creator and judge of humankind.
  15. 27. believe that the Prophet publicly designated his cousin and son-in-law