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Father of English Hymn
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Isaac Watts
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Reformer in Bohemia
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John Huss
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Painted Sistine Chapel
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Michalanglo
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Founder of Islam
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Mohammed
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Justinian’s wise wife
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Theodora
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Established Mogul Empire
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Babar
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First Roman Emperor to persecute Christians
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Nero
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Father of Dutch Liberties
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William of Orange
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Where the Greek gods supposedly lived.
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Mount Olympus
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Made 3 laws of planetary motion
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Johann Kepler
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Swedish Lutheran warrior king
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Adolphus
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Wrote all music to glory of God
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Bach
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Peice of land in feudalism
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Feif
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Wrote Illiad and Odesy
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Homer
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Founder of the society of Jesus
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Loyola
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Invented printing press
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Johann Gutenberg
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Conqueror who spread Greek culture through empire
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Alexander
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First Roman emperor to make a confession of faith
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Constantine
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Established Persian Empire
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Cyrus
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Won the Peloponnesion War
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Sparta
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Wealthy people of Rome
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Patricians
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French Protestants
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Huguenots
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Ruler by many
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Democracy
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Court of Catholic Church to try heretics
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Inquisition
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Beautiful Greek temple in Athens
Parthenon
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Worn on armor for identification
Heraldry
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Carried Jesus' cross
Simon of Cyrene
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One who worships many gods
Polytheist
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Defeated Sullah in Rome's first civil war
Marius
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Year for beginning of Protestant Reformation
1517
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Influential in forming Royal Society
John Wilkins
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Ended Thirty Years' War
Peace of Westphalia
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Signed Magna Carta
King John
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Wrote Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, promoted a heliocentric view of solar system
Copernicus
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German composer, wrote piano Donita's such as moonlight Sonata. His 5th and 9th Symphonies were his greatest
Beethoven
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Great Dutch painter, greatest painter of all time
Rembrandt Von Rijn
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Child Podigy. Wrote the Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and the Marriage of Figari
Mozart
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Gaspard de Coligny
Protestant leader
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Wrote Don Quixote
Cervantes
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Cardinal Richelieu
Powerful French Cardinal
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Debated Martin Luther
Johann Eck
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First Medieval pope
Gregory I
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Empire ruled by Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
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Discovered Pacific Ocean
Balboa
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Printed first Greek New Testament
Erasmus
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Discovered Brazil
Cabral
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First Pharaoh of United Eygpt
Menes
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Warriors who brought end to Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Hykos
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Greek Father of History
Herodotus
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City that Became center of Egyptian life.
Cairo
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Greatest Ancient Kingdom in central Africa
Cush
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Wrote oldest surviving hymn
Clement
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Greatest ruler of Mali empire
Mansa Musa
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Largest lake of Africa
Lake Victoria
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Belief of natural objects and forces infested with spirits
Animism
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Important center of trade in Mali empire
Timbuktu
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Form of government that means ruled by the best
Aristocracy
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Spartan Slaves
Helots
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Great statesman of Athens
Pericles
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Known for his merciless law code
Draco
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Famed Carthaginian General
Hannibal
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Conquered England in 1016
Canute
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"Father of Modern Science"
Isaac Newton
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"Bloody Mary" killed some 300 people
Mary Tudor
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Ruled India from 1526 to 1700s
Mogul Empire
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Byzantine empire reached its height under him
Justinian I
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Builder of the first World Empire
Nimrod
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Developed woodcutting and painted Praying Hands
Albrecht Durer
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Sumerian writing
Cuneiform
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Ancient Sumer's most important industry
Textiles
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World's oldest literature
Epic of Gilgamesh
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Sumerian word for tablet house
Edubba
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Way of life of people
Culture
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Temple towers of Sumer
Ziggurat
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A transmitting of heritage from one generation to the next
Education
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The Old Testament was written in what type of Hebrew
Classical
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Persian King who established first postal system
Darius
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Ability to read and write one's language.
Literacy
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Second King of Israel
David
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Another name for Israel that comes from Ham's son
Canaan
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Means, Father of a great nation
Abraham
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Nation ruled by God
Theocracy
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In what year did the northern Kingdom of Israel fall
721 B.C.
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China's longest dynasty
Chou dynasty
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Chinese philosopher who taught his followers to respect tradition and family
Confucius
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Oldest surviving religion in Japan
Shinto
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What name did the emperor go by in Japan?
Mikado
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First emperor of United China
Shih Haung Ti
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Established Mongol empire
Genghis Khan
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Catholics killed some 100,000 Protestants
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
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"Invincible Armada" Was defeated by the English
Spanish Armada
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First Protestant confession of faith
Augsburg Confession
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Africa's tallest mountain
Mt. Kilimanjaro
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A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage
Punic Wars
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Adopted Niceness Creed, rejecting the teaching at Arianism
Council of Nicea
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Longest river in the world
Nile
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War between Sparta and Athens from 431 B.C. To 404 B.C.
Peloponnesion War
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Papal certificates that excuses a person from purgatory
Indulgences
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A crusade to take back Spain from the Moors
Reconquista
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An attempt to synthesize Greek Philosophy with Romanism
Scholasticism
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Work of superior excellence that has stood the test of time
Classic
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Where Noah's descendants settled
Plain of Shinar
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West African Empire that arose after the fall of the Ghana Empire
Mali
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Dominated West Africa in the late 1400s to 1500s
Songhai Empire
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Define: Aksum
A kingdom in Sabaea
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Declared Huguenots could live anywhere, but worship only in certain locations.
Edict of Nantes
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The way of life of a group of people
Culture
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Culture that includes a specialized division of labor, a written language, a written law, an organized form of civil government, and the development of the arts and science.
Civilization
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A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single unity.
Nation
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First great civilization in the Western Hemisphere
Mayas
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The most important Indian civilization in South America
Incas
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Most powerful Native American empire at beginning of the Age of Exploration
Aztecs
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Oldest surviving hymn
Shepherd of Tender Youth
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King of Babylon who perfected the existing Sumerian code of law.
Hammurabi
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A great early church father who was martyred for his faith, contended against the heresy of monarchism
Tertullian
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"Morning Star of the Reformation" Gave the English a Bible in their own language
John Wycliffe
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Teenage pharaoh who died at age 18
Tutankhamen
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Ruthless queen who attempted to rule for her sons.
Catherine de Médicis
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Greatest writer of all time.
William Shakespeare
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Outstanding leader of the Scottish Reformation.
John Knox
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Wrote a Book of Martyrs.
John Foxe
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King during the start of the English Reformation.
King Henry VIII
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Noah's sons
Shem, Ham, Japeth
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Employed by Queen Elizabeth to build up England's navy.
John Hawkins
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Wrote the "Hallelujah Chorus"
George Fredrick Handel
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Defeated Harold Godwin at Battle of Hastings, 1066.
William the Conqueror
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Female pharaoh
Hatshepsut
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The greatest of the Carolingian kings.
Charlemagne
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Two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent
Tigris and Euphrates
