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3rd Nine Weeks Test Flashcards

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“Land between rivers”

Tigris and Euphrates river

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Mesopotamia

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Where the 1st cities were

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Sumer

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Sumerian writing

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Cuneiform

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Founder of the Akkadian empire

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Sargon

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1st person to unite Mesopotamia

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Sargon

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One of the oldest literatures

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Founded the 3rd dynasty of ur

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Ur Nammu

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Founder of the old Babylonian empire

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Hammurabi

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Made the 1st comprehensive law code

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Hammurabi

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Founder of the Assyrian Empire

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Tigelth pilsaer

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Founder of the new Babylonian empire

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Nabopolassar

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Responsible for Babylonian captivity

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Nebuchadnezzar

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13
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Founded the Persian empire

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Cyrus the great

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Nile river

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Egypt

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1st to unite Egypt

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Menes

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16
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Taught us how to read hieroglyphics

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Rosetta Stone

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17
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Only full pharaoh tomb that we have

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King Tut

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18
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Chief Egyptian god in the Middle Kingdom

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Amon ra

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19
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Where the great pyramids were

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Giza

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20
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Made Aton and switched capitals to become more powerful

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Amanhotep

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Wrote the Iliad and the odyssey

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Homer

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22
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Democracy of Greece

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Athens

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23
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Soldier state

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Sparta

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Turning point in history, when people’s focus goes from Mesopotamia to Greece

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Battle of salamis

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Led the Spartans to the battle of Thermopylae

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Leonides

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26
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Led Athens at Salamis

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Themestoycles

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27
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Spread Hellenism throughout the world

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Alexander the Great

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28
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Leader of Athens during the golden age

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Pericles

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29
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Rome defeated Carthage to dominate the Mediterranean world

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Punic wars

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30
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Led Carthage in the 2nd Punic war

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Hannibal

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31
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Assassinated by the Roman senate because they were afraid he would start a monarchy

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Julius Caesar

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32
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1st emperor of Rome

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Augustus

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33
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Half the city burned and he blamed the Christians

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Nero

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34
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Moved the capital to Constantinople, first Christian emperor

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Constantine

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35
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Spread Christianity throughout Rome

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Peter and Paul

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36
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Eastern Roman Empire

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Bizzentyine empire

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37
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1st Great bizzentyine emperor

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Justinian I

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38
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3 monotheistic religions came from him

Christianity, Judaism, Islam

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Abraham

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39
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Led the Israelites in the exodus and wrote the 10 commandments

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Moses

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40
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1st king of Israel

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Saul

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41
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Moved the capital to Jerusalem

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David

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42
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Built Solomon’s temple

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Solomon

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43
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This part of the kingdom was Babylonian captivity

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Southern

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44
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This kingdom was dispersed by the Assyrians

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Northern

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45
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China

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Hwang ho and Yangtze

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46
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1st unite China, built the Great Wall

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Emperor chin

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47
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Built the world’s largest empire

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Gangus khan

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48
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Major religion in India

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Hindu

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49
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Siddartha god

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Buddha

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50
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Won India’s independence from peaceful protest

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Ghandi

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51
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Founded the frank empire

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Clovis

52
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Mayor of the palace that won battle of tours

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Charles Martel

53
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Stopped the Muslims advance into Europe

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Battle of tours

54
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1st Carolingian king

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Pepin the short

55
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Built the largest empire since the fall of the Roman Empire, pope crowned him Charles Augustus

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Charlemagne

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Divided the frank empire between Charlemagne’s children

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Treaty of verdun

57
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Way of life based on the ownership and use of land

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Feudalism

58
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1st English king

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Alfred the Great

59
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Brought feudalism to England, doomsday book, and won battle of Hastings

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William the conqueror

60
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Fought in the 3rd crusades

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Richard the lionhearted

61
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Forced to sign the Magna Carta

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John I

62
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In 1215 put the king under the law

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Magna Carta

63
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2nd Tudor king who made the English reformation

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Henry VIII

64
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Known for her brutality to change England back to Catholicism

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Mary I

65
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Queen during Shakespeare and Spanish Armada and the virgin Queen

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Elizabeth

66
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1588, marked the decline of Spain and rise of England

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Spanish Armada

67
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Greatest okay right in English history

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Shakespeare

68
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New translation of the Bible

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James

69
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Longest reign of England

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Victoria

70
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Chief prophet of Islam

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Muhammad

71
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Invade Rome and ended the Roman Empire

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Itila de hun

72
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Bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholicism church

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Pope

73
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Christians attempt to capture the holy land

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Crusades

74
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Sukarno first Egypt, united the Muslims world in 3rd crusade

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Saladin

75
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Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe

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Bubonic plague

76
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King of Spain that sent the Spanish Armada

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Phillip II

77
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Capital of the old kingdom

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Memphis

78
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Why are they on river?

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Communication 
Fertile soil
Fishing
Sanitation
Irrigation
Free time
Hygiene
Transportation
79
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King of Persia; builds the royal road

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Darius

80
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Greek hero in the Trojan war

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Achilles

81
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1st Great European civilization; peaceful

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Minoans

82
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2nd Great European civilization; warlike

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Myceneans

83
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Greek city state

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Polis

84
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First to unite Greece

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Phillip of Macedonia

85
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God of the sea

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Poseidon

86
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King of the gods

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Zeus

87
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Wrote the republic; taught Aristotle

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Plato

88
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Greeks v. Persians

300 Greeks blocks Persians but they still won

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Battle of Thermopylae

89
Q

One of the largest pyramids is his tomb

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Khufu

90
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Capital of the old kingdom

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Memphis

91
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Middle Kingdom capital and new kingdom

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Thebes

92
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When Israel became a nation

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1948

93
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Communist

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Mao-the-tung

94
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Nationalist

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Chang-Kari-shek

95
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Hero of the 100 Years war

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Joan of arc

96
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Arrived Catherine de Medicis; leader of Huguenots

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Henry IV

97
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Sun king

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Louis XIV

98
Q

Prison that was stormed on bastille day

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Bastille

99
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Head of the committee of public safety and wanted to eliminate everything from the old regime

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Maximilian Robespierre

100
Q

Known as the savior of the republic and become emperor of France

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Napoleon

101
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Where Napoleon is finally defeated

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Waterloo

102
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King of Spain during the Spanish Armada

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Phillip II

103
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Followers were called Lutherans

Nailed the 95 theses

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Martin Luther

104
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When did Martin Luther nail the 95 theses

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1517

105
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Allied powers

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Russia, France, England, U.S.

106
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Central powers

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Austria Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria

107
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His death started WWI

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Archduke Ferdinand

108
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When was Ferdinand assassinated

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1914

109
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What front was all trench warfare

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Western

110
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When the armistice was signed and Germans resign

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November 11, 1918

111
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Takes over Russia and becomes communist

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Lenin

112
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War between the Muslims and Christians to take back the holy land

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Crusades

113
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Killed 1/3 of Europe

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Black Death

114
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Invented the movable type printing press

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Gutenberg

115
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When did Hitler invade Poland

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1939

116
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How did WWII begin

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Invasion of Poland

117
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German lightning warfare

Used it to invade Poland

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Blitzkrieg

118
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Supreme allied commander in the southwest Pacific Ocean

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MacArthur

119
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Supreme allied commander in Europe

Organized D-Day

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Eisenhower

120
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German Marshall
Most decorated
Lost operation torch

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Rommel

121
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Japan attacks on December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

122
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U.S. marches into Europe

Largest amphibious assault in history

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D-Day invasion

123
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When was the D-day invasion in Normandy

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June 6, 1944

124
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U.S. project to build an atomic bomb

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Manhattan project

125
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Where does Truman drop the 1st atomic bomb

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Hiroshima

126
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Jews were forced to live in the ghetto
Lost all citizenship
Eventually sent to concentration camps

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Holocaust

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