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During the Kamakura Shogunate, Buddhism was spread to ordinary Japanese people by energetic preachers. One new sect of Buddhism was [BLANK-1] named after the preacher who lived from 1133-1212 and who argued that paradise could be reached through simple faith in the Buddha and repeating the name of the Buddha Amitabha. This was also known as Pure Land Buddhism.

The Black Death was a destabilizing event in Europe and significantly altered the social behavior of the people it affected. The Florentine Humanist Giovanni Boccaccio the crisis in his Effects of the Black Death in Florence (ca. 1352). His account of the plague described a sense of normlessness or lack of social mores among the populace and a complete collapse of social structures – an effect that later historians and social scientists would term [BLANK-1]. Boccaccio described husbands abandoning wives, parents abandoning their children, strangers wandering into random houses, people fleeing into the hillsides, merrymaking and bacchanalia in some corners of the city and cloistered shut-ins in other corners. Women laughing at funerals and losing all modesty in regard to exposing their bodies were among the social mores broken during the time of the plague.

After Temujin’s death, the Mongol Empire was divided into smaller states ruled by his heirs. These states were loosely connected to one another and were known as [BLANK-1].

One of the preconditions for the success of the Printing Press and the Printing Revolution was the prevalence of [BLANK-1] in Europe. From the mid-fourteenth century onward, these industries were common in Europe and produced massive amounts of cheap products necessary for printing. These industries had originated in China and were spread to Europe from Muslim Spain, but became commonplace in the continent.

At the end of the twelfth century, the Muslim scholar Maulana Burhān ud-dīn Marghīnānī wrote [BLANK-1]. In this text, he discussed the rules regarding Muslim marriage and stated that Muslim men could practice polygamy and marry as many as four wives, as that number was explicitly expressed in the Qur’an. The wives could be free women or slaves and he argued against an older Muslim scholar named Shāfi’ī, who claimed that only one of the wives could be a slave. According to Marghīnānī, any number of the four wives could be slaves or free women.

Literally named after university professors, [BLANK-1] was an intellectual movement that was part of the Twelfth Century Renaissance in Europe. Universities, such as the University of Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Bologna, were hotbeds of this intellectual movement that sought to apply logic and reason to faith. The two most famous practitioners of this intellectual movement were Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas.

The Plantagenet Dynasty came to an end during the War of the Roses in 1485, when Henry Tudor defeated [BLANK-1] (the last of his line) at Bosworth Field. Henry would reestablish a strong monarchical line and begin the Tudor line of kings (including notable monarchs like Henry VIII and Elizabeth I).

Homer files a suit against Bart.  Before going to trial, the parties meet to try to resolve their dispute without the involvement of a third party.  This is

Multiple Answers below. Spelling counts as this is auto-graded. There’s a few acceptable answers here depending on whether you use spaces in your answers.  What kind of fault is this? [fault1] What would you label the RIGHT side of this fault? [fault2] Describe the type of forces that are creating this fault. [fault3]

There’s multiple types of rocks in this one sample. What is the darker portion called with the “holes”? In the next question, you can answer my question in the video for extra credit.  Igneous