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How do historians create history?

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Documents, artifacts, etc

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What is a primary source?

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Something written that was written during the big event.

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What is secondary source?

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It’s when someone writes about something that happened already.

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What is a artifact?

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A document, letter, photo, object, fossil

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What is radiocarbon dating?

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Testing artifacts and finding what century it came from

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What is the difference between history and the past?

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History is our interpretation of the past braised on artifacts and documents and fossils. The past is everything that has happened up until now.

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What is a city-state?

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A city that rules themselves

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What is siege?

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When you surround the enemy until the town gives up

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What is cavalry?

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Horseback

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What is infantry?

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On foot

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What is fortification?

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When u make something stronger

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What is a republic?

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A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

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What is a monarchy?

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Ruled by a king or queen

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What is direct democracy?

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When the people have the power to make laws and vote

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What is a theocracy?

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a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

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What is monotheism?

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When you worship and believe in one God

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What is polytheism?

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When people worship and believe in many gods

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What is sovereign?

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A supreme ruler especially in monarchy

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What is secular?

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denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

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What is revolutionary?

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engaged in or promoting political revolution.

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What is reactionary?

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(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform

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What’s conservative?

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Values tradition

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What’s liberal?

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Values change

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What is a classical civilization?

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The study of the history and culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Course offerings cover every aspect of life in the ancient world, including politics, warfare, law, slavery, gender and sexuality, religion and magic, sports and leisure, death, drama and philosophical though

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What is the medical era?

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The dark ages when the classical eras knowledge was lost and the Black Plague began

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What are the crusades?

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a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries

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What is gothic architecture?

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a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture

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Who are the Byzantines?

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Was the eastern Roman Empire found in Constantinople fell by the Turks ruled by Theodosius believed in polytheism then ruled by Justinian

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Who are the moors?

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were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta. From North Africa, the Moors invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 711, calling the territory Al-Andalus, which at its peak included what is today most of Spain, Portugal, and Septimania

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What is a Protestant?

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a member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches

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What is indulgence?

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(in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages

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Who is Martin Lutheran

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A monk in a monastery

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Who is pope Leo X?

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Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici, was Pope from 9 March 1513 to his death in 1521. The second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of the Florentine Republic, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1489

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What is Counter Reformation?

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Such reforms included the foundation of seminaries for the proper training of priests in the spiritual life and the theological traditions of the Church, the reform of religious life by returning orders to their spiritual foundations, and new spiritual movements focusing on the devotional life and a personal relationship with Christ

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What is the Index of Prohibited Books?

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A list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and therefore banned by the Catholic Church

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What is inquisition?

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a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation
Example: Renaissance

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What is heretic?

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a person believing in or practicing religious heresy

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What is heresy?

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belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine

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Who is Lorenzo de Medici?

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Lorenzo de’ Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance

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Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

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He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer which made him a renaissance man

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Who is Michelangelo?

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was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art

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