which was occupied by the Islamic Empire. For example: In Northern Europe lived the Vikings. The Vikings were actually very advanced people. They could travel from Greenland to Iceland without a compass. They used the stars to travel around the seas. They also made very advanced boats. The boats (Viking Longboats) they made actually had a special shape that allowed them to slide through water very quickly. As the Vikings moved through Europe to trade and steal‚ they learnt even more scientific knowledge
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enslaved by Scandinavian settlers known as the Vikings. The enslavement of the Slavs‚ created the western term of slave. The Vikings arrived in Russia via the Volga River basin. They came mainly from frozen Sweden‚ seeking better lands to pillage and farm. Russia turned out to become an extremely fertile land‚ in which they enslaved the natives and gave it the name we still call it in modern times. The name of Russia comes from the term the Vikings gave themselves‚ which was ‘Rusk‚’ or ‘one who rows
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Chapter 7 Define: * Plateau: a relatively high‚ flat land areas * Desert * Savanna: broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs Define: * Animism: * Griot: a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history * Subsistence Farming: the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use‚ not for sale * Matrilineal: tracing lineage through the mother rather than the father * Patrilineal: tracing lineage through the father Know
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Monarchies. 835 - Vikings from the Scandinavian lands (Denmark‚ Norway‚ and Sweden) begin to invade northern Europe. They would continue until 1042. 896 - Alfred the Great‚ King of England‚ turns back the Viking invaders. 1066 - William of Normandy‚ a French Duke‚ conquers England in the Battle of Hastings. He became King of England and changed the country forever. 1096 - Start of the First Crusade. 1189 - Richard I‚ Richard the Lionheart‚ becomes King of England. 1206 - The Mongol Empire is founded
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ability as horsemen sustained their successes. Around 1200 CE‚ a Mongol khan (clan leader) named Temujin unified the clans under his leadership. His acceptance of the title Genghis Khan‚ or "universal leader" tells us something of his ambitions for his empire. Over the next 21 years‚ he led the Mongols in conquering much of Asia. Although he didn’t conquer China in his lifetime‚ he cleared the way for its eventual defeat by Mongol forces. His sons and grandsons continued the conquests until the
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together. Without economy‚ nobody would be able to get what they needed to survive. Government is really important. The Vikings had a government where everyone got together and voted. These meeting were led by chiefs or kings. At the meeting people who broke laws could be punished and new laws could be created. Without the Viking government there was nothing to stop Vikings from doing evil deeds and chaos would probably break out. In ancient China
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Silk Road‚ the Indian Ocean‚ the trans-Saharan trade route‚ and the Mediterranean Sea led to the spread of ideas‚ religions‚ and technology. During the period known as Pax Mongolia‚ when peace and order were established in Eurasia due to the vast Mongol Empire‚ trade and cultural interaction were at their height. • Major technological developments such as the compass‚ improved shipbuilding technology‚ and gunpowder shaped the development of the world. AP EXPERT TIP When you are reading about
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The world experienced many changes through the years of 300 to 1500 C.E. The first empires rose‚ and when they fell new ones were ready to take their place. These empires became even more connected through trade routes. With trade came the spread of religion‚ culture‚ and ideas. The spread of religion also lead to today’s widespread world religions. Trade was not always a good thing‚ though‚ it also spread deadly diseases that reduced populations and caused the fall of empires. The three classical
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Caliphates in Persia. Only India did not return to an over reaching centralized empire. During the post-classical Dar el-Islam united much of Eurasia with a single religious adherence to Islam. Also‚ the largest empire the world was ever to see‚ the Mongols‚ rose during the post classical period. These large‚ complex empires altered governments and economies‚ more by scale than bringing about any revolutionary changes. Culturally people became more urban and with that urbanization the trends toward the
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the previous era? Enlarging networks advanced greater inter-regional borrowing while at the same time sustaining regional diversity. The enlargement of existing including China‚ the Byzantine Empire‚ and the Caliphates. Also new empires like the Mongols facilitated trans-Eurasian trade and communication as new people were drawn into their conquerors’ economies and
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