1) Islam means A) "dedication to Allah." B) "victory." C) "peace." D) "people of the book." E) "submission." 2) The political and theological faction within Islam that recognized only Ali and the descendants of the family of Muhammad as rightful rulers was called A) Fiqhs. B) Kharij. C) Sunnis. D) Shi’is. E) Sufis. 3) One difference between classical China and the earlier Hwang Ho river-valley civilization was that in classical China‚ A) irrigation was widely practiced
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English III AP - AP( English Language and Composition Course Overview The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods‚ disciplines‚ and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board‚ AP( English Course Description‚ May 2007‚ May 2008‚ p. 6). Students are expected to read critically‚ think analytically
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Ch. 34 The great depression was a time of pessimistic views‚ the rise of physics and psychology‚ and the rein of a great power. Key concept 6.1 states “Researchers made rapid advances in science that spread throughout the world‚ assisted by the development of new technology.” Many advanced people of history lived in this time like Einstein who contributed to technological advances in physics. Belief systems‚ philosophies and ideologies played a major role in this time period (Theme 2) Einstein
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AP Psychology Free Response Questions Sample The following questions are samples of the free response questions from past AP Psychology exams. The free response sections are worth 33 1/3 percent of the total grade. Students have 50 minutes to answer two questions. The key to successfully answering these questions is to: completely define the terms using appropriate psychological terminology and then critically apply each term. Many students concentrate their efforts on the multiple-choice
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At the beginning of the 1500s‚ Indians suffered the deadly epidemics which took from Europeans‚ however‚ they believe that is god’s willing to punish them. After that‚ European countries were trying to brake Indian people. The Native population of North America fell by more than 70 percent between fifteenth-century and nineteenth-century. Europeans judged Native people by Europeans values‚ social orders and gender assumption caused the policy of removing Indian people from east to west. Indians
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Spodek Guided Notes Chapter 1 A. The Dry Bones Speak I. Human Origins in Myth and History - Paleoanthropology - A student of the earliest humans and the setting in which they lived. - Humans all over the world made stories to explain origin (Before diggers came with interpretations and cussing). o They tell how and why humans came to Earth. a. Early Myths - Myth – An interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep moral message. - Caste – Social‚ economic
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including Islamic leaders in the government‚ but extreme violence committed by both parties in the conflict has made a peaceful solution difficult to achieve. This violence has claimed the lives of an estimated 100‚000 people in the years between 1990 and 2002. The Roots of Anger The clash between the fundamentalists and the military government stems from Algeria’s experimentation with political liberalization. The attempt to create more points of view and more political parties in the government
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married a wealthy widow‚ Khadija‚ in 595 Became a merchant at age thirty and was exposed to various faiths Muhammad’s spiritual transformation at age forty There was only one true god‚ Allah ("the god") Allah would soon bring judgment on the world The archangel Gabriel delivered these revelations to Muhammad The Quran ("recitation")--holy book of Islam Followers compiled Muhammad’s revelations Work of poetry and definitive authority on Islam Other works include hadith (sayings and
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1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China; territories as faw west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227‚ prior to conquest of most of Islamic world 3. Ghaznavids: ). Established by Alptigin‚ a Turkish soldier of Samadid rulers‚ who captured Ghazni (Afghanistan) in 962 and began establishing his own state. Grandson‚ Mahmud marked high point of regime. Between 1001-1024‚ led 17 campaigns into India
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AP World History Must Know Dates Timeline To 600 B.C.E. 8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture 3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s 18th C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code 1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script 1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age 10th-7th C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire 600 B.C.E. - 600 CE 6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha‚ Confucius‚ Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism‚ Buddhism‚Taosim) 5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers. 323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great 221 B.C.E. - Qin unified
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