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Ming Dynasty - Answer Bounce Back () 20 million people, civil service exams, centralization Civil Service Exams - Answer Everyone takes them as many times as they want to see what they do in life Forbidden City - Answer Capital City of Beijing at center, has layers higher people can go closer and closer to the center. Administrative heart of the Ming, Emperor is at the center The Middle Kingdom - Answer the idea of China as the center/heart of the world Silver - Answer ...

BC - Answer Before Christ AD - Answer "Year of Our Lord" CE - Answer Common Era BCE - Answer Before Common Era Van Sertima - Answer Had the theories of transatlantic contact before 1492 Cuneiform - Answer First form of writing developed in Sumeria, impressed on clay with a reed City-State - Answer Large and independent city Monotheistic - Answer Religion with only one god Abrahamic Religions - Answer Judaism, Christianity, Islam Christi...

Christianity - Answer -foundations lay in a direct confrontation with Roman imperial rule: the trial of Jesus -arose in Judea -took shape in a richly pluralistic world -found guilty of sedition and sentenced to crucifixion -Paul of Tarsus wrote of Jesus as "the Anointed One" -preached about Jesus to communities that also adopted the name for Jesus -only decades later did letters written by the people who had heard the word of Jesus from Paul become known as the Gospels -appeal...

Confucius - Answer (551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history. Axial Age - Answer A period of history (around 600 BCE) when a lot of religious leaders and thinkers came about, "Turning Point" Second-Generation societies - Answer emerged in India, China, and Mediterranean Europe. These societies built on the foundations of their ancestors but made a crucial NEXT STEP into a new phase ...

BCE - Answer Before Common Era CE - Answer Common Era Ecumene - Answer the known world "history" v. "the past" - Answer past doesn't change, however history may change due to new discoveries Revisionist history - Answer corrects what we "knew" as history Primary sources - Answer official records, diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, etc. Secondary sources - Answer analysis, synthesis, or argument collected and presented by a histori...

Tacitus: Germania - Answer - Tacitus: important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at the end of the first century - Germania: written by Tacitus, an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside of the Roman empire Comitatus - Answer - closely associated with the chief in some tribes - "war band" - swore loyally to the chief and fought alongside him in battle Wergeld - Answer - Violence and Justice: Tribal feuds and settlements ...

Microorganism - Answer A general term for living organisms that cannot be seen without a microscope, even though some people include viruses and prions in the group. "Ubiquity of Microorganisms" - Answer The concept that microorganisms are everywhere. It is virtually true but not quite. Where are microorganisms not found? - Answer Only places where we intentionally exclude them. Where do we intentionally not allow microorganisms to exist? - Answer Blood, cerebrospinal ...

Who developed the concept of medical statistics? - Answer Florence Nightingale What is the basis for the modern smallpox vaccine? - Answer cowpox virus In the three-domain model, the bacterial ancestor of mitochondria derives from ancient: - Answer respiring bacteria What is used to focus the beam of electrons in an electron microscope? - Answer electromagnets Microbes include members of which of the following groups? - Answer Bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses Rober...

Macronutrients - Answer nutrients that are required in large quantities - major elements in cell macromolecules (C, O, H, N, P, S) - ions necessary for protein function (Mg^2+, Ca^2+, Fe^2+, K^+) What are the 6 macronutrients that make up carbs, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins of the cell? - Answer carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur What are the 4 macronutrients that are cations and serve as cofactors? - Answer Mg^2+, Fe^2+, K^+, Ca^2+ Cofactor -...

Microbe - Answer living organism that requires a microscope to be seen Groups of microbes - Answer bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, protozoan Criteria of microbes - Answer - range in size from millimeters to 0.2 micrometers - some consist of single cell (exceptions, but majority) - each contains, in its genome, capacity to reproduce its own kind (doesn't apply to viruses) Exceptions to microbial criteria - Answer - not all microbes are microscopic - not all microbes ...