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(Extra Credit)- 15 points extra credit in your homework grade- (the items in parentheses count as extra credit
terms if you write about each of them) You may do all or part of this study guide for extra credit. Due on the day
of the final.
High and Late Middle Ages
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Characteristics of the Early Middle Ages
Characteristics of the High Middle Ages
Characteristics of the Late Middle Ages
What led to the High Middle Ages?
Chivalry
Scholasticism
Benefits of Crusades for Europe
Effect of Crusades on Islam
Crusader States
4th Crusade/Sacking of Constantinople
William the Conqueror (+England)
Magna Carta
Black Death (+effects)
Hundred Years War (+Joan of Arc)
Relationship of Russia and Byzantines (+Eastern Orthodox)
Renaissance and Reformation
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Causes of the Renaissance
Ideals of the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
The Medici Family
Significance of Guttenberg Printing Press
Causes of the Reformation
Martin Luther (+95 Theses)
John Calvin (+Predestination)
Henry VIII and the English Reformation (+Anglican Church)
Catholic Reformation (+Jesuits)
Nation Building
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French Civil War (+Huguenots +Ultra-Catholics)
Elizabeth I v. Philip II (+Spanish Armada)
30 years war (+causes +effects +national sovereignty)
English Civil War (+Parliamentarians/Roundheads +Cavaliers/Royalists +Oliver Cromwell)
Glorious Revolution (+Causes +William and Mary +English Bill of Rights +Toleration Act)
Louis XIV (+Versailles)
Peter the Great (+Westernization)
Hobbes v. Locke (+social contract)
Early Modern Art (+Mannerism +Baroque +French Classicism)
Age of Exploration
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Motives for exploration (+3 Gs +Mongols +Plague)
Spice Trade (+Portugal +Dutch +English +Companies)
Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco de Gama
Magellan
Factors which helped Southeast Asian nations resist imperialism
Isabella and Ferdinand
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Conquistadors (+Hernan Cortes- Aztecs +Francisco Pizaro- Incans)
Reasons for the ease of European colonization of the Americas (+disease +technology +alliances)
Encomiendas
Columbian Exchange (+disease +potato)
PortugalSpainthe NetherlandsEngland
Triangular Trade (+Middle Passage +raw materials +manufactured goods)
Reason why imperialism was limited in Africa (+malaria +geography)
Islamic Empires
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Gunpowder Empires
Ottoman Empire
Janissaries
Safavid Empire (+Shi’ism +Theocracy)
Mughal Empire
Akbar
Sikhism
English East India Company
Marathas
Reasons why the empires declined (+dependency on Europe +succession)
Early Modern South East Asia
62. Ming Dynasty (+ interaction with Europe + fall)
63. Qing Dynasty
64. Population boom in China in the early modern period
65. Civil War in Japan
66. Tokugawa Shogunate
Present Day
67. Conflict in the Balkans
68. Women in Iran
69. Women in India
Geography (Make a map, or several maps!)
Aztec Empire (+Mexico), Incan Empire (+ Peru), original English 13 colonies in the Americas, Brazil,
Caribbean Islands, Meso-America, Latin America, Atlantic Ocean, slave coast, Sahara Desert, India (+Mughal
Empire), Iran (+Safavid Empire), Turkey (+Ottoman Empire +Istanbul +Byzantine Empire +Constantinople),
Southeast Asia, Philippines, Spice Islands, Indian Ocean, East Asia, Japan, China, Russia (+St. Petersburg),
Mongolia, Italy (+Rome), Spain, Portugal, Balkans, England, France, the Netherlands, Germany (+Holy Roman
Empire), the Holy Lands (+Jerusalem)
Dates (To get points for this make a nice multi-colored timeline or flashcards)
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Beginning of the High Middle Ages (1000)
Normandy Invasion (1066)
First Crusade (1096)
Mongol invasions (1200s)
Magna Carta signed (1215)
Black Death in Europe (1348-1351)
Renaissance (14th-17th century)
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans (1453)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue & Jews kicked out of Spain (1492)
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (1517)
Cortez defeats the Aztecs (1519)
Queen Elizabeth’s reign (1558-1603)
Akbar’s reign (1556-1605)
Spanish Armada (1588)
30 Years War (1618-1648)
Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires at their height (16th -17th century)
Increased centralization of European governments and the rise of absolutism in Europe (16-17th century)
Islamic empires decline- Mughal and Safavid end (18th century)
Year the Ottoman Empire was dismantled by Allied forces (1922)