ss Unit 5, Chapter 14, Lesson 4
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cahb8989 on October 10, 2008
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ss vocabulary, louisiana edition, ss the world, lomschool
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Palestine | a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Medeterranean Sea |
| Rome | a city near the middle of the western coast of Italy |
| Chang'an | a capital city in Central Asia on the Silk Road |
| Dunhuang | a Chinese sity on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert |
| Genoa | a seaport town in Italy |
| Alexis Comnenus | 1408 - 1118 Byzantine emperor who appealed to the pope for Christian knights to fight against the Turks |
| Urban II | c. 1035 - 1099 pope who issued a plea to free the Holy Land Palestine from the Turks, launching the Crusades |
| Marco Polo | c. 1254 - 1324 Venetian merchant, world traveler, and writer who remained in China as a guest for 17 years |
| epidemic | a disease that spreads quickly |
| Crusades | major military expeditions by Christians to win back control of Palestine (Holy Land) and to protect the Byzantine Empire |
| Silk Road | a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire with China |
| Plague | an attack of bubonic plague that killed about 25 - 30 % of Europe's population from 1347 to 1352 |
| bubonic plague | an epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rats |
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