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| Marco Polo | ________________________ visited the court of Kublai Khan in the late 13th century and wrote the first book about China, his name is also a famous swimming pool game. |
| Monotheism | The religious belief in one God, basic to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and others, is called ________________________________. |
| Muhammad | Islam is a religion based on the teachings of the prophet ______________________. |
| Muslim | A ____________________ is a believer in Islam, and their house of worship is called a mosque. |
| Pope Urban II | The Byzantine emperor in 1095 requested help from _____________________ in order to defend Constantinople from Turkish invaders, even though 40 years earlier he had excommunicated him. |
| Martin Luther | The Ninety-five Theses, written by ___________________________________ questioned what he called the Catholic Churches greedy and corrupt behavior, this “protest” started the Protestant Movement or Reformation. |
| Feudalism | _______________________ was a social and political system in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire wherein individuals turned to powerful landowners for protection. |
| Stories | In ancient West African _____________________ were used to entertain, explain, and teach and this is how the village lore (history) was passed from generation to generation. |
| Hajj | It is a Muslim goal to make a pilgrimage, or ________________, to the city of Mecca at least once; this journey involves elaborate rites that take place over many days. |
| Printing Press | The invention of the _______________________ in 1450 helped to spread the ideas of the Reformation and weaken the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe. |
| Hernando Cortez | The Spanish explorer, _____________________, was initially accepted into the Aztec world because he resembled one of their gods; however, he ended up destroying the Aztec civilization. |
| Mayan | The early ___________________ civilization developed the first annual calendar based on 365 days; each of these days was ruled by a separate god, unlike our calendar, they had 18 months, 20 days each. |
| Vertical Economy | High in the mountains of South America the Inca civilization created a _______________________________ using complex architectural structures to create terrace farming on the sides of mountain. |
| Leonaedo da Vinci | Being an inventor, artist, writer, sculpture, and scientific thinker, _______________________ was the ideal Renaissance man in the 1400’s. |
| Michelangelo | During the Renaissance the style of art known as realism was made famous by the painter, sculptor, _________________________________. |
| Telescope | In 1609 Galileo proved the theories of Copernicus with a ______________________ that showed that the sun was the center of the universe not the earth. |
| Isaac Newton | __________________________ used his powers of observation, such as an apple falling from a tree, to develop the theory of gravity. |
| Johannes Kepler | The theory of the orbits of the planets around the sun being circular was disproved by ________________________, who proved in the 1600’s that the orbits are elliptical or oval. |
| Arabic | _____________________ is the main language spoken by those of the Muslim faith. |
| Republic | A government wherein elected representatives vote for the citizens is called a _____________________, and was first used in the Roman Senate. |
