Economics
When the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied, you have this.
What is a shortage?
Muslims are called to pray this many times towards Mecca each day.
What is 5?
Economic and social system based on loyalty that developed in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
This tall Frankish king, who later was crowned holy Roman emperor, has a mixed legacy with both positives and negatives.
Who is Charlemagne?
Trade between two states in the U.S. would be considered this.
What is domestic trade?
The price at which the quantity demanded and quantity supplied meet.
What is the equilibrium price? (Also accept market-clearing price.)
According to the fourth pillar of Islam, Muslims are called to fast during this month.
What is Ramadan?
People that were bound to the land of their lord during the Middle Ages. They provided food to their lord in exchange for land to farm on and protection.
What are serfs?
English nobles forced this man to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
Who is King John?
This device that was an innovation during the Islamic Golden Age was used by Muslims to pinpoint their location and figure out which direction Mecca was.
What is the astrolabe?
According to the Law of Demand, this word describes the relationship between price and quantity demanded.
What is inverse?
Muhammad fled to this city after facing backlash to his teachings in Mecca.
What is Medina?
The black egg sized swellings that people developed after becoming sick during the Black Death.
What are buboes?
Some historians call this man "the Savior of Christianity" for his efforts leading the Franks to victory over the Moors at the Battle of Tours.
Who is Charles "The Hammer" Martel?
Violence and discrimination against Jews, called this, was widespread in Europe during the Crusades and Black Death
What is antisemitism?
A good produced in China and then sold in the United States would be considered this type of good for the U.S.
What is an import?
Islam first began in Mecca, which is located on this piece of land, centrally located near three continents--Asia, Africa, and Europe.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Pope Urban II called for the Crusades to begin soon after this group of Muslims took control over Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
Muslim mathematician that became known as the "Father of Algebra" during the Islamic Golden Age.
Who is al-Khwarizmi?
While nearly all economies in the world today are mixed, North Korea, with its intense government control, would be considered close to having this.
What is a command economy?
A tariff imposed by the U.S. government on shoes produced in China would benefit whom?
Who are domestic shoe producers?
Division over who should succeed Muhammad as the Islamic leader led to the religion's split into these two main groups.
Who are the Sunnis and Shias?
The signing of the Magna Carta stripped English monarchs of this.
What is absolute power?
Who is Abu Bakr?
The fall of the western Roman Empire created this in Europe at the start of the Middle Ages, where many different kingdoms fought for control.
What is a power vacuum?