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100
What form of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchy
100
Who developed legions?
the Romans
100
List three ways in which the Muslims improved mathematics.
They developed an algebra textbook, Arabic numerals, and the concept of zero.
100
What is the plague and how did it spread? What was its nickname?
It was a disease that spread from Europe to Asia along the Silk Road killing half of the population. It was sometimes called the Black Death.
100
What was the system that kept the three branches of government from having more power than the other.
Chicks and Balances
200
Which document gave more power to the people and less to the king? Where was it written and signed?
The Magna Carta. It was written and signed in England.
200
What is the name of a holy war?
a crusade
200
List two of the Greek inventions.
Astrolabe, wooden screw, columns, casting iron, pulley block. (any of these work)
200
How did Feudalism have an effect on the Middle Ages?
It allowed the people to have a system of protection.
200
In what year did the Ottoman Turks take over Constantinople?
1453
300
AWho protected Japan's feudal system?
The samurai.
300
What was the name of the peasant group that rebelled against the Mongols?
the Red Turbans
300
What are the four Roman inventions?
Aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheaters, and roads.
300
What did the do to people that died from the plague?
They catipulted them over the wall around what ever city it was.
300
How did Genghis Kahn unify the Mongols?
He split up the different tribes into units. He did this to insure loyalty and trust to his eventual dynasty.
400
List two reasons why the Roman Empire fell.
The Germanic Invasions and there were dishonest government officials.
400
What happened to the Mongols and Koreans of their journey to attack Japan?
A storm wiped out their ships.
400
Lost two ways in which the Muslims improves medicine.
Hospitals, surgeries, medications.
400
What was the lowest class in the social pyramid? What was their job?
Peasants. They provided food, tools, and labor.
400
What was an invention of the red turbans?
the first gun
500
Explain how Athens government worked. What form of government did Athens use?
They had an assembly and they allowed the people to vote on issues. They used a direct democracy.
500
In what crusade did the Christians completely turn on their allies in Constantinople and burn it to the ground.
the Fourth Crusade
500
What is the golden age?
It was a time in the Middle East in which many ideas and inventions were developed.
500
Give the order from greatest to least of the classes on the feudalism social pyramid.
Monarch, lord, knight, peasant.
500
Who was allowed to be a citizen in Athens? Who was not? What are two rights that were given to citizens?
The free men were citizens. Women, slaves, and children were not. They citizens had the right to own property and freedom of speech.