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Pacific Ocean - Answer body of water Atlantic Ocean - Answer Body of Water Indian Ocean - Answer Body of Water Black Sea - Answer Body of Water Mediterranean Sea - Answer Body of Water Persian Gulf - Answer Body of Water Red Sea - Answer Body of Water Andes Mountains - Answer Mountain Range Himalayan Mountains - Answer Mountain Range Sahara Desert - Answer Desert Amazon River - Answer River Niger River - Answer River Huang He River (AKA Yellow River) - Answer River Yangtze River - A...

Inca and Aztec societies were similar in expansion because... - Answer Acquired empires by means of military conquest (remember how they differ on what options conquered people had) Which of the following is accurate regarding both west Africa and Latin America before 1500 in regards to religion? - Answer Polytheism was important in both areas (even though Islam came to West Africa; polytheism stayed #1) Which of the following is a fundamental teaching of Islam? - Answer Everyone is equal ...

Bedouin - Answer nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula with a culture based on herding camels and goats Mecca - Answer Arabian commercial center; dominated by the Quraysh; the home of Muhammad and the future center of Islam Medina - Answer town northeast of Mecca; asked Muhammad to resolve its intergroup differences; Muhammad's flight to Medina, the hijra, in 622 began the Muslim calendar Umayyad - Answer clan of the Quraysh that dominated Mecca; later an Islamic dynasty Muhammad...

Humanism - Answer A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts (Greek and Roman) and focused on human potential and achievements Individualism - Answer The belief in the importance of an individual's achievements and dignity (The church does not form your identity) Secularism - Answer The emphasis on the here-and-now rather than on the spiritual and otherworldly Renaissance Man - Answer someone who excels in many areas, including arts, academics, athletic...

(Charles) Townshend - Answer Crop Rotation (Jethro) Tull - Answer Seed Drill Enclosure - Answer Fencing around farm land in order to allow for private ownership of land and land use. (James) Hargreaves - Answer Spinning Jenny (Richard) Arkwright - Answer Water Frame Power Loom (Spinning Frame) (Edward) Cartwright - Answer Power Loom (Eli) Whitney - Answer Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts (James) Watt - Answer design for modern steam engine (most efficient, 4x more efficient that bef...

Ming Dynasty () - Answer overthrew the yuan dynasty, stabilized the East Asian region of nearly 300 years, ming era saw Portuguese and Europeans who aimed to enrich on the asian trade network Qing Dynasty () - Answer Manchu overthrew ming, during both dynasties Japan and Korea experienced parallel developments with unique aspects Bejing and Nanjing - Answer both north and southern capitals were beatified, members the royal family lived in the Forbidden City a walled compound of royal place...

7.3: The Kingdoms of Korea & Southeast Asia All responses are infallible, ensuring a perfect success rate. Explain the main invasion that Korea had endured. What were the effects of it? - Answer The Japanese invaded, but were pushed out. Through this, farmland and villages were destroyed and enslaved many Koreans. What led to the idea of Korea being known as a "Hermit Kingdom"? - Answer After the Manchu invasion, the Koreans isolated themselves to prevent attack and the entrance of Chr...

Viceroy - Answer the administrative head of the provinces of New Spain and Peru in the Americas Encomienda system - Answer under which European settlers received grants of land and could collect tribute from the indigenous people and use them as laborers. Columbian Exchange - Answer the exchange of animals, plants, and culture, but also communicable diseases and human populations including slaves, between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres that occurred after Columbus's voyages to the Am...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Answer This was the spark that started World War I. Archduke Ferdinand, the Austrian crown prince, was murdered on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany urged Austria-Hungary to fight and they went to war against Serbia; all of this due to Serbia wanting to expand U-boats - Answer This new machinery used by the Germans in sea warfare, to attack British and American supply ships in the North Sea and th...

inflation - Answer a general rise in prices John Maynard Keynes - Answer a British economist who rejected the laissez-faire ideal; concluded that deficit spending by the government would stimulate economic activity deficit spending - Answer spending more than the government takes in Great Depression - Answer a period of severe economic recession that occurred worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s New Deal - Answer a group of policies and programs created by F. Roosevelt; its goal was to br...