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Ruled much of the Middle East from 226 A.D. to 651 A.D.
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Known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems
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The empire in southeastern Europe and Asia Minor formed from the eastern part of the Roman Empire
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The former name of Istanbul until the capture of the city by the Turks in 1453.
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The Qur'an began with revelations on Muhammad's divine revelations.
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Sunnis and Shiites became split because of the argument on the caliphate selection.
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The second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muhammad, ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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The conquered territory becama part of the expanding Umayyad Empire
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The third of the Islamic caliphates.
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A tribe of Tartars from Central Asia who established a powerful empire in Persia in the 11th century
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The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars launched by the Christian states of Europe against the Saracens.
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Mongol emperor and military conqueror, who ruled the largest empire ever formed.
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Succeeded in uniting various parts of the Middle East and Mesopotamia and in overtaking the Christian armies of the early crusades.
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Invasion by the Mongols resulting in the vast Mongol Empire covering much of Asia and Eastern Europe
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The various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India.
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A document that King John was forced to signing. It greatly reduced the power he held as the King of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliament
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Slave boys of the Abbasid caliphs of the Islamic Empire
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The emperor of Malian Empire. The weathiest ruler of his day.
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Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia.
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A series of wars between England and France.
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The Renaissance was a cultural an intellectual movement in the arts, NOT a historical period.
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One of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history,
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A Hui-Chinese mariner who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa.
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The Aztec civilization was a highly advanced and filled with unique customs, a comprehensive language, and amazing technology.
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Gutenberg discovered the concept of movable type printing which facilitated the printing press itself.
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The Renaissance was a cultural an intellectual movement in the arts, NOT a historical period.
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The grand duke of Moscow and the creator of the consolidated Muscovite state.
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Inca history is difficult because the Incas had no written language and passed their history down orally from one generation to the next.
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A short-lived Chinese Dynasty which unified China in the 6th century.
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Under the tang, China becomes the superior in East Asia and the world with links east to Korea and Japan and west, along the Silk Route
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A ruling dynasty in China that succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. First goverment in world history to issue paper money
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The king of Franks, who expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe.
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A medieval Slavic state that was the forerunner of modern Russia.
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The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of Central European territories, ruled first by Frankish and then by German kings.