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| In what ways is Islam an ethical religion? In what ways is it a missionary religion? |
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The spread of Islam came from Muhammad and those who followed him. The missionary movement peaked during the Islamic Golden Age. The diety, ethical demands but promises eternal life.
It is concerned with individuals as ethical agents. |
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| Descrive how feudalism worked. |
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| Land owners are people who own land. Serfs are slaves. Land owners have serfs to work on their land so they don't have to. Serfs don't own land but have housing on the land owners property. |
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| Describe the artistic achievements of the Renaissance |
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| What was the "Columbian Exchange"? |
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| Until the European explorations, the civilizations of the Americans, Eurasia, and Africa had had no significant contact with each other. Native Americans had no immunity to several significant European deseases, so many died. Exchanges of plants and animals agriculture. |
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| What was the method of scholasticism? |
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| Study based on logic and dialectic that dominated the medieval schools. It assumed that truth already existed, students had only to organize, elucidate, and defend knowledge learned from authoritive texts. |
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| Describe the significance of Magna Carta |
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| The "Great Charter" limiting royal power that the English nobility forced kingdom to sign. Document that reaffirmed traditional rights and personal liberties still enshrined in English law. |
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| Descrive the significance of Charlemagne's reign |
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-Charlemagne's empire covered much of Western Europe
-Improved education and Church discipline |
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