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| What tribe invaded Europe? | Franks because they were the most powerful |
| What is Clovis's grandsons name? | Charles Martel who drove out Muslims out of France (Battle of Tours 732) |
| Who was the next king? | "Pepin the Short" was the third condolidated and legitinized power by driving Lombards away from Italy |
| What was the land called that Pepin gave to the pope? | "Donation of Pepin" |
| What does this land become? | it becomes the Papal State, this causes the relationship between Franks & Church |
| Who was Pepin's son? | Charlemagne "Chaz the Great"-was a ruthless conquerer |
| What territories did Charlemagne conquer between 768-814 AD? | he conquered France, Italy, and Germany: under power defeated Lombards, Saxsons, and wars of central Europe, also Muslims |
| What happened on X-ma day in 800 AD? | Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo the third |
| What was significate of the church? | it unified and Charlemagne gave out land for the lords to govern |
| Who is Missi Cominic? | "Lords Messengers"; made sure decrees were carried out and listened to complaints, reviewed laws |
| What happened about taxes? | government had no direct taxes on lands because of Charlemagne estates money |
| Who served in the army? | everyone |
| Who is Alciun? | scholar who set up school at Aachen because model for later schools, had bibles written, libraries of Roman Grekit |
| What happened after Charlemagne died? | Charlemagne dies in 814 AD, grandsons foung over empire, made Treaty of Verdun in 843, split kingdom and weakened it |
| What did the Muslims terroize? | the terroized the Med. coast, Sicily, Saradnai, Corscia |
| What was at the east? | Slavs |
| What was at the north? | Vikings, most feared, enjoyed battles and wars |
| What did the Vikings do to help the trade routes? | they opened trade routes that linked Northern Europe and with the Med. lands |
| What year did the Maya civiliztion begin? | 750 AD |
| What era of history was Europe in at the time of the Maya? | Dark Ages |
| What was Tecab? | thriving metropolis |
| How did the Maya disappear? | they deserted their own land |
| Who are the ancestors of the Maya? | Asiatic People |
| What are the dates for the Classic Maya Period? | 250-900 AD |
| Who first discovered and wrote about the classic Maya? | John Lolyd Stephs |
| Why were the books of Maya burned? | they were the books of the devil |
| What other science was Maya math tied to? | astronomy |
| What was the other purpose of Maya pyramids? | time counter |
| What did the Maya time machine look like? | 3 wheels with acient writing |
| When did the Maya think that the world would end? | Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 |
| What practices did the Maya do that we would not do today? | blood shedding |
| What discovery did American Filmmake Giles Healy make that shattered previous ideas of the Maya? | they were fierce warriors, and the had blood shedding scrafices |
| Why were the people unwilling to see the Maya this way? | they thought they were peaceful and thought it was a joke with someone putting paint on the walls |
| Describe some of the things the hieroglyphics said when they finally sloved them | when people died and were born, kings and queens, Maya royality names |
| What did the people think the sacrifice of blood brought to them? | power, sum to rise, rain to fall, and the corn to grow |
| What was the purpose of the Maya ball game? | to sacrifice bodies to their god, the losers were sacrificed |
| Why did Christianity nmake sense to the Maya? | devine kind to shed blood for his people |
| Why did the Maya disappear into the Jungle? | lost faith in their kind and lost power |
| What is Islam? | a religion that emerger in Arabia in 632 AD |
| What is the geography of the Middle Ages? | their resources included dense forests that covered most of the N, spread with rich black earth soil, seas were used to fish and trade |
| What was the rainforest? | 5% is tropical rain forest, near equator |
| What is the savannah? | largest area or grasst plains, cattle raising is the primary occupation, has fertile soil but is subject to large droughts |
| What is the Dry Steppes? | long dry grasslands |
| What are the two major deserts? | Sahara and the Kabhari & Nambib |
| What is at the Med. Coastline and the Southern tip of Africa? | fertile farmland |
| What are the geographic features? | acted as barriers to prevent and easy movement of people and goods |
| Cont'd? | few harbors, dangerous rivers, high plateaus, and deserts: people used rivers to travel within Africe, traveled across the Savannah |
| What are there resources? | salt, iron, gold, copper/traded in acient time:modern day = diamonds, gold, and oil |
| Where did the people migrate? | rift valley of Africa is home of the earliest people, 5500 BC, Neolithic farmers present |
| What happened to the west African farmers? | they migrated and cultrally diffused informaiton and technology throughout Africa |
| What happened to the Kingdom of Ghana? | neolithic villages evolved over time and grew into farms:created a trade network that linked, sent goods through the Sahara to Med to the Middle East |
| What dominated trade? | gold and salt |
| Why salt? | it was used to preserve food, and to retain body mositure |
| Where was Ghana located in 800 AD? | located vetween Niger and Senegal Rivers |
| How many trade routes converged at Ghana? | 2 trade routes |
| What did the Emperor do? | elaborate ceremonies and were considered semidivine:his power rested on gold trade:owned all gold mines |
| How were women treated? | they had a high statue:held some positions of power |
| Why was Ghana overwhelmed? | they were overwhelmed by the Muslim invaders in 1050 AD and became an Islamic Kingdom |
| What type of history did the Ghana people have? | had an oral history |
| Who helped Charlemagne to read and write? | Aachen |
