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    was a period of rebirth and light for a country once consumed by darkness during the time known as the Middle Ages. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 brought into Italy an influx of Byzantine scholars that sparked a refocus on such liberal studies and humanities that restructured the general governance of Italy for centuries to come. Before the fall of Constantinople‚ Italy was governed by the ideal laws set forth and insinuated by Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica. This scholastic work was considered

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    The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest lived of the great empires of the Middle East. The Ottoman Empire survived for more than four centuries until it was finally dismantled at the end of World War I in 1918. The Ottoman Empire provides a direct link from the early modern period. At its height of power‚ the Ottoman Empire controlled a huge amount of territory‚ in the Middle East‚ North Africa and southeastern Europe including Greece‚ Hungary‚ the Balkans‚ Romania and Bulgaria. The

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    “Now shalt thou feel the force of Turkish arms which lately made all Europe quake for fear.” This was true throughout the mid-fifteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century‚ when the Ottoman empire became a real threat to global civilization. The Ottoman empire left a significant impact on global civilization‚ differentiating their view of the world from the rest of the world. As a result‚ the Ottoman empire reformed beliefs like Muslim and Islam‚ controlled and threatened the world by expanding

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    B - After the Western Roman Empire fell‚ European society became organized under feudalism. Feudalism is a system in which a king rules over all people‚ and has nobles or knights that own portions of land‚ in which the taxes are given to the king. Underneath both the king and the nobles are the common people‚ who work for the nobels. This system benefitted European society as it had an economic use‚ a political use‚ and a social use. D - On Christmas Day in 800 CE‚ Charlemagne was named the first

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    38. A society is almost certainly a civilization if.. It is agricultural 39. The Neolithic Revolution occurred first in The middle east 40. Which of the following is not a feature of Sumerian Civilization? A simplified alphabet of 22 letters 42. Jewish monotheism.. - emphasized the power and abstraction of God 43. the development of writing.. - helps explain why government could become more formal and bureaucratic 44. the "son of heaven" concept was designed to promote all

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    Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources Second Edition Chapter 12 The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century Copyright © 2013 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. The Shapes of Human Communities A. Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America 1. Gatherers and hunters have a history‚ too: While non-literate and non-urban‚ these societies did change over time; we just don’t have written records of it. 2. Manipulation of the environment and trade: In Australia‚ aboriginal

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    The Fall of the Roman Empire • Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned A.D. 161-180) – the end of his reign caused a loss of peace and prosperity: the Pax Romana • Tribes outside boundaries and pirates in the Mediterranean disrupted trade • Had no new sources of silver and gold and as a result the government raised taxes • Government starts minting coins with less silver and made more money with the same amount of metals which caused inflation- a drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise

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    Chapter 11 Mongol armies besieged the Genoese trading on Black Sea in 1346 Damaged trading links between East Asia and Mediterranean bubonic plague Geneose merchants and soldiers withdrew‚ taking germs with them reached Messina‚ Sicily‚ half were dead and rest dying went port to port‚ spreading the germs killed one third of European population land and sea trailes of human voyagers became accidental conduits for deadly microbes devastated societies more than Mongol warfare “murderous

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    Turkic peoples‚ including the Ottomans who dominated the rest‚ flooded into the area. By the 1350s‚ the Ottomans were advancing from their Asia Minor strongholds. Under Mehmed I‚ they conquered a large part of the Balkans‚ and‚ in 1453‚ they captured Constantinople of the Byzantine Empire under Mehmed II‚ “The Conqueror‚” thus establishing an empire from the Balkans that included most of the Arab world. Like the Ottomans‚ the Safavids arose from struggles of rival Turkish tribes. In the fourteenth

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    OUTLINE I. Introduction – The Renaissance was a period of time when great changes occurred across the world that changed the way people lived and how they thought. The Renaissance was a period of time spanning over several centuries. It affected the entire world at different times and in different ways. Europe and England were also greatly influenced as part of the Renaissance Many outcomes developed as a result of the Renaissance. II. The Renaissance was a period of time spanning over several

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