Name: _________________________ Chapter 9‚ 10‚ 11‚ 12‚ 13 Grade Booster AP World History All questions are multiple choice. Please circle the correct answer. 1. Out of the following statements‚ which was NOT a result of the Black Death? a. Rise of feudalism in western Europe b. Population decline in China. c. Scarcity of goods throughout Europe. d. Labor shortages in agriculture and industry in England. 2. One of the following statements is a true statement about the Heian period
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read this article‚ about the history and beauty of Machu Picchu‚ a historical monument located in Cusco Region‚ Urubamba Province‚ Machu Picchu District in Peru‚ I wondered how much effort it would have taken to build it. We know as a fact that the Incas did not have any type of advanced technology to help them carry this heavy rocks. It also surprised me the organization they had. Each “area” was directed for one purpose for instance: farming‚ building‚ hunting‚ etc. On paragraph 11‚ they talk
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Name: John Kindley | Class: GH AP Y (Even) | Date: November 3rd‚ 2012 | Chapter 12‚ Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas‚ 200 - 1500 | Pages 306 - 331 | | Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica‚ 200 - 900: | | * Remarkable civilization created | | * Different language + politics‚ but unified by material culture‚ religious beliefs + practices‚ and social structure | Classic Period | * Classic period (built upon Olmec and other civilizations) | | * Social
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Tarek Sahyoun AP World History Unit 3 Vocabulary * Bedouins are pretty much the stereotypical Arabs because of their culture based on herding camels and goats * I would have liked to be a Shaykh if I lived in a Bedouin society because they usually possessed large herds. * It is a Muslim practice to pray toward the city of Mecca. * I was surprised to hear that Muhammad’s flight to Medina began the Muslim calendar. * The Umayyad clan dominated Mecca‚ and later became a Muslim
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coast‚ has an average February high temperature of 80˚F and in August low of 58˚F. Culture Peru has a long history that dates back to the Norte Chico civilization (a complex pre-Columbian society) and the Inca Empire. The Spanish landed on the territory in 1531 and discovered the Inca civilization. In the early 1530’s the Spain’s Francisco Pizarro (Spanish conquistador) began searching the area for wealth and by 1533 had taken over Cuzco. In 1535 Pizarro founded Lima and in 1542 a viceroyalty
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Alaska during the Ice Age. Though they were hunters at first‚ by 5000 BC‚ they had become hunter-gatherers with a diet of basically corn. Great pre-European Indian cultures included the Pueblos‚ the Iroquois‚ the Mound Builders‚ the Mayans‚ the Incas‚ the Aztec‚ and the Sioux‚ among others (map of tribes on pg. 8). The Indians revered nature and land‚ and didn’t carelessly
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Final Paper: Peru GEO 102 [pic] (fig. 1) Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city‚ high in the Andes of Peru. The Republic of Peru‚ (Spanish: República del Perú)‚ or Peru‚ is a country located on the western edge of South America. It borders Ecuador and Colombia to the north‚ Brazil to the east and Bolivia and Chile to the southeast. Peru has a complex geography dominated by the high and rugged Andes and the Pacific currents‚ which create climates and landscapes as
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Machu Picchu is an absoultely stunning travel destination. Why? The stonework is some of the finest. The location was once a mystery and what it used to be is exhilarating. And last‚ there is just such beautiful artwork. One of the the amazing things is that the stoneworks at Machu Picchu is in the finest quality. In the article The Stones of Machu Picchu‚ Duane Damon states‚ "...walls of white granite ashlars [stone building blocks] carefully cut and exquisilely bitted together" (Damon). What
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Born in Blood and Fire: Latin American Voices Essay Assignment A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Bartolome de las Casas Las Casas’ account depicts the terrible and inhumane actions that the Spaniards inflicted upon the indigenous people. He made it very clear that the indigenous people were far from deserving of this torturous treatment. He describes them as “among the purest‚ the most innocent‚ and the most intelligent.” (p.9) Las Casas points out that other Spaniards had similar
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Charles Purkerson Jr His 108 8/27/14 Zinn Chapter 1 Zinn Q and A Q: 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History Of The United States? A: 1. Zinn’s main purpose was to give a detailed account of American history from the victim’s point of view or present the history from the point of view of the common people Q: 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? A: 2. Zinn’s thesis is that Christopher
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