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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

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Parthenon

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Worn on armor for identification

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Heraldry

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Carried Jesus’ cross

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Simon of Cyrene

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One who worships many gods

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Polytheist

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Defeated Sullah in Rome’s first civil war

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Marius

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Year for beginning of Protestant Reformation

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1517

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Influential in forming Royal Society

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John Wilkins

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Ended Thirty Years’ War

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Peace of Westphalia

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Signed Magna Carta

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King John

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Wrote Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, promoted a heliocentric view of solar system

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Copernicus

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German composer, wrote piano Donita’s such as moonlight Sonata. His 5th and 9th Symphonies were his greatest

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Beethoven

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Great Dutch painter, greatest painter of all time

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Rembrandt Von Rijn

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Child Podigy. Wrote the Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and the Marriage of Figari

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Mozart

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Gaspard de Coligny

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Protestant leader

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Wrote Don Quixote

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Cervantes

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Cardinal Richelieu

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Powerful French Cardinal

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Debated Martin Luther

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Johann Eck

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First Medieval pope

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Gregory I

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Empire ruled by Nebuchadnezzar

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Babylon

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Discovered Pacific Ocean

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Balboa

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Printed first Greek New Testament

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Erasmus

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Discovered Brazil

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Cabral

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First Pharaoh of United Eygpt

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Menes

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Warriors who brought end to Egyptian Middle Kingdom

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Hykos

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Greek Father of History

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Herodotus

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City that Became center of Egyptian life.

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Cairo

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Greatest Ancient Kingdom in central Africa

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Cush

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Wrote oldest surviving hymn

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Clement

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Greatest ruler of Mali empire

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Mansa Musa

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Largest lake of Africa

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Lake Victoria

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Belief of natural objects and forces infested with spirits

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Animism

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Important center of trade in Mali empire

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Timbuktu

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Form of government that means ruled by the best

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Aristocracy

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Spartan Slaves

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Helots

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Great statesman of Athens

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Pericles

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Known for his merciless law code

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Draco

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Famed Carthaginian General

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Hannibal

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Conquered England in 1016

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Canute

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“Father of Modern Science”

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Isaac Newton

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“Bloody Mary” killed some 300 people

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Mary Tudor

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Ruled India from 1526 to 1700s

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Mogul Empire

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Byzantine empire reached its height under him

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Justinian I

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Builder of the first World Empire

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Nimrod

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Developed woodcutting and painted Praying Hands

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Albrecht Durer

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Sumerian writing

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Cuneiform

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Ancient Sumer’s most important industry

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Textiles

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World’s oldest literature

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Sumerian word for tablet house

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Edubba

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Way of life of people

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Culture

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Temple towers of Sumer

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Ziggurat

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A transmitting of heritage from one generation to the next

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Education

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The Old Testament was written in what type of Hebrew

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Classical

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Persian King who established first postal system

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Darius

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Ability to read and write one’s language.

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Literacy

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Second King of Israel

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David

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Another name for Israel that comes from Ham’s son

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Canaan

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Means, Father of a great nation

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Abraham

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Nation ruled by God

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Theocracy

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In what year did the northern Kingdom of Israel fall

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721 B.C.

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China’s longest dynasty

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Chou dynasty

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Chinese philosopher who taught his followers to respect tradition and family

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Confucius

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Oldest surviving religion in Japan

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Shinto

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What name did the emperor go by in Japan?

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Mikado

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First emperor of United China

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Shih Haung Ti

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Established Mongol empire

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Genghis Khan

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Catholics killed some 100,000 Protestants

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St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

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“Invincible Armada” Was defeated by the English

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Spanish Armada

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First Protestant confession of faith

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Augsburg Confession

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Africa’s tallest mountain

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Mt. Kilimanjaro

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A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage

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Punic Wars

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Adopted Niceness Creed, rejecting the teaching at Arianism

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Council of Nicea

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Longest river in the world

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Nile

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War between Sparta and Athens from 431 B.C. To 404 B.C.

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Peloponnesion War

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Papal certificates that excuses a person from purgatory

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Indulgences

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A crusade to take back Spain from the Moors

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Reconquista

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An attempt to synthesize Greek Philosophy with Romanism

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Scholasticism

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Work of superior excellence that has stood the test of time

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Classic

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Where Noah’s descendants settled

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Plain of Shinar

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West African Empire that arose after the fall of the Ghana Empire

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Mali

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Dominated West Africa in the late 1400s to 1500s

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Songhai Empire

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Define: Aksum

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A kingdom in Sabaea

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Declared Huguenots could live anywhere, but worship only in certain locations.

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Edict of Nantes

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The way of life of a group of people

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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.

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Civilization

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A large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single unity.

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Nation

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First great civilization in the Western Hemisphere

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Mayas

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The most important Indian civilization in South America

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Incas

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Most powerful Native American empire at beginning of the Age of Exploration

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Aztecs

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Oldest surviving hymn

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Shepherd of Tender Youth

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King of Babylon who perfected the existing Sumerian code of law.

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Hammurabi

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A great early church father who was martyred for his faith, contended against the heresy of monarchism

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Tertullian

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“Morning Star of the Reformation” Gave the English a Bible in their own language

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John Wycliffe

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Teenage pharaoh who died at age 18

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Tutankhamen

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Ruthless queen who attempted to rule for her sons.

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Catherine de Médicis

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Greatest writer of all time.

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William Shakespeare

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Outstanding leader of the Scottish Reformation.

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John Knox

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Wrote a Book of Martyrs.

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John Foxe

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King during the start of the English Reformation.

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King Henry VIII

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Noah’s sons

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Shem, Ham, Japeth

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Employed by Queen Elizabeth to build up England’s navy.

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John Hawkins

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Wrote the “Hallelujah Chorus”

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George Fredrick Handel

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Defeated Harold Godwin at Battle of Hastings, 1066.

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William the Conqueror

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Female pharaoh

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Hatshepsut

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The greatest of the Carolingian kings.

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Charlemagne

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Two important rivers in the Fertile Crescent

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Tigris and Euphrates

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