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Crusaders Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries that fought for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims Gothic a style of architecture developed in…

Johannes Gutenburg Developed printing press John Cabot first European to discover Newfoundland in 1497 Bartolomé de las casas Dominican priest who preached against Spanish abuses of Indians Samuel de Champlain…

Capitalism/Democracy To have the right to vote for your country’s leaders and have a free market. Communism a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership Containment the US trying to…

Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein’s ideas about the interrelationships between time and space and between energy and matter. Quantum Physics Branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of…

True T/F- It is possible for a single case of a disease to represent an epidemic True T/F-The history of epidemiology originated as early as classical antiquity. True T/F-Robert Koch…

In sociologist Daniel Rossides’s model of the class system of the U.S., which social class contains the smallest portion of the population? upper class Karl Marx argued that social, economic,…

c Which of the following statements about species, as defined by the biological species concept, is (are) correct? I. Biological species are defined by reproductive isolation. II. Biological species are…

Proletariat Working class. Bolsheviks Pro-communism revolutionaries. Led by Lenin, later on by Stalin. Formed the Red Army. Lenin Leader of the Bolsheviks. Ruthless. Bloody Sunday January 22, 1905. Over 200,000…

What inspired the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen? A.) the Magna Carta B.) the Atlantic Charter C.) the American Declaration of Independence D.) the Seneca Falls…

Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution the succession of technological innovation and changes in human organization that led to the development of agricultural (8500-3500) aristocracy a form of government in which power is…

Geologic time scale The division of Earth’s history into smaller units makes up the _______ _____ _______. eras, periods, and epoch. Geologic time is divided into subdivision: Eras major subdivisions…

Columbian Exchange A dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, and ideas between the American, African, and Eurasian continents following the Christopher Columbus’ voyage to America…

Classical Civilization that was located in modern day Iran and spread throughout “Greater Mesopotamia”. Give both of its names. Persian / Achaemenid Empie What was a satrap in the Persian…

The economy of 16th century Europe was characterized by: increasing population, fixed food supplies, and stagnant wages. The troubles of the late 16th and early 17th centuries: caught most Europeans…

Age of Exploration Time period during the 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for easier trade routes to China and India. Resulted in…

The source of inspiration for Charles Ives’s music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America? New England Ruth Crawford was trained mainly in Europe. False Charles Ives…

Attrition Also known as dropout Can occur in any research study Comparative studies Examine the differences between intact groups on some dependent variable of interest. There is no manipulation of…

the main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how recently in time the languages were once the same a group of languages that share a…

anointed one What does the title Christ literally mean? Martin Luther Who emerged as the leader of the reform movement in the sixteenth century? Sacrament In Christianity, a sacred rite…

Friedrich Miescher extracted a substance he called nuclein from white blood cells Frederick Griffith demonstrated that DNA was the genetic material by injecting smooth virulent bacteria and rough bacteria into…