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Section 1 Flashcards

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Artifacts

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Everyday objects, such as art tools, clothing, weapons, and art.

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Hominids

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Human and human like creatures

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Hieroglyphics

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Form of writing develop by people of the Nile river valley

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Cro- Magnons

Magnons

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Made cave paintings in France and Spain

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Nomads

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Moved from place to place to search for food

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Scribes

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Literate government workers

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Ziggurats

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Baked bricked temples

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Irrigation

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Ways to move after to places where there is none

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Cuneiform

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Symbols carved with a stylus

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Culture Diffusion

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Spread of culture and ideas from one area to another

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Amenhotep IV

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Monotheistic pharaoh

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Fertile Crescent

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Runs from the isthmus of sues through Southeast Asia to Persian gulf

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City state

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Form of community created by the Summerians

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Hammurabi

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Powerful Babylonian ruler

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Zoroaster

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Taught about the struggles between good and evil

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Indo Aryan religious text

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Vedas

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Bhagavad Gita

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Epic Poem

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Ancient Harrapan city

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Mohenjo Daro

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Powerful Priests

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Brahmins

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Fierce ruler who became a Buddhist

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Asoka

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Level of percent peace

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Nirvana

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Gaining Salvation in Buddhism

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Four Noble Truths

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Unity of God and Creation

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Monism

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Ancient Civilization in the Indus Riber Valley

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Harrapan

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Living a life of good will, striving for perfection

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Right Intentions

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China Proper

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The heart of china

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Loess

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Yellow soil

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Zhongguo

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“Middle kingdoms”, or center of the world

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Bureaucracy

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Government organized into differ levels and tasks

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Animism

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Belief that spirits inhabit everything

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Oracle Bones

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Used to make predictions

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Autocracy

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Total power for emperor

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Silk Road

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Famous Trade route

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Analects

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Collected works of Confucius

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Laozi

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Found of Daoism

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Linear B

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Early form of greek writing

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Archons

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Nine elected who served one tart terms

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Polis

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City state

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Aristocracy

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Rule by the nobles

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39
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Plato

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Was responsible for the theory of forms

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Aristotle

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Had a special skill for defining and classifying things

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Acropolis

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A large hill on the polis

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Sophocles

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Was responsible for the best tragic play

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Delian League

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Unified city states

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Demosthenes

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Led the Athenian opposition to Phillip 2

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Pericles

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Athenian democracy reached it’s greatest height during his regin

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Solon

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Freed people who had been sold into slavery

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Xerxes

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Led a army to avenge his fathers defeat

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Themistocles

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Led Athenians during Persian wars

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Darius

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Will be defeated at the Battle of Marathon

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Inflation

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Rises in prices due to devalued money

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Aqueducts

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Bridge like structures that carried water from the mountains

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Martyrs

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People who were put to death because of their beliefs

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Constantine

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Supported Christianity

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Pax- Romana y

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Time of peace begging with the regin of Augustus

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Justinian Code

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Byzantine law based on Roman justice

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Iconoclast

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Those against worshiping idols

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57
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Boyars

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Kevian Russian nobles

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Rurik

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Leader of the rus

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Vladimir 1

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Christina Kievean Russian ruler

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Taiga

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A cold rainy agriculture region

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Mosque

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A Muslim place of worship

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62
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Diamond Sutra

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The worlds first printed book

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Du Fo

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Poet during the Tang Dynasty

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Sejong

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Korean ruler who promoted Korean alphabet

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Shinto

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Way of the kami

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Honshu

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Main island of japan of dynasty

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Philip 2

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Kidnapped at an early age

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Herodotus

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Recorded the history of much known Ancient World

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Socrates

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Taught that students should be trained to think for themselves

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Phidias

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Created the statue of Athena that decorated the Parthenon

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Hippocrates

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Founder of modern medicine

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Senate

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Controlled public funds and managed foreign policy

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Praetor

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Commanded armies and oversaw the legal system

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Plebeians

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Made up the population

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Hannibal

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Crossed the alps to attack Italy

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Gaius Marius

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General who created a powerful volunteer army

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Steppe

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Warm, dry agriculture region

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Czar

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Absolute monarch or Cesar

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Ivan 1

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The first great prince

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“Third Rome”

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Moscow

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Beoudins

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Nomadic Arab herders

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Mecca

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Center of trade and religion

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Hijrah

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Flight to Yathrib

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Qur’ran

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Book of religious beliefs and instructions

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Jihad

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Struggle to defend faith

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Caliph

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Successor to the prophet

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Sunni

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Believe on rule of the prophet

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Sufi

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Taught simplicity in life

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Shi’ah

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Believed on rule of imams

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Yi Dynasty

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Powerful Korean dynasty

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Fujiwara

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1st family to gain control over the central government in japan

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Khmer empire

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Controlled much of southwestern Asia

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Bushido

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“Way of kami”

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Daimyo

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Powerful local lord

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Urban 2

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Said “God wills it”, in trying to gain favor for the 1st crusade

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John Wycliffe

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Preached that everyone had the right to interpret the bible for themselves

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Henry Tudor

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Married a a daughter from the rival family house of York

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John Hus

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Was speaking out against the church at the university of Prague

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Philip 2

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Turned his army away from the 3rd crusade to gain back native lands

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Saladin

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Allowed Christina’s to worship freely in Jerusalem

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Joan of Arc

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Had visions from God and inspired and led the French soldiers into battle

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Helped legitimize Vernacular languages

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Innocent 3

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Ordered the 4th crusade and was one of the most powerful popes in history

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Edward 3

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Was an English king and a French Vassal at the same time

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Seljuq Turks

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Captured the holy land

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Market economy

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Individual control of land labor and capital

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Great Schism

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Period Where there were several Popes at the same time

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Merchant guild

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Given the sole right to trading the specific town

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Domestic system

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Manufacture of a product at home

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Usury

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Church prohibited this at first but will later allow it

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Babylonian Captivity

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The church was central located in France during this period of time

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Hanseatic League

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Created to protect trade

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Craft guild

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Established rules and training for skilled workers

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Scholasticism

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Attempt to bring faith and reason together

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Preach that some were destined for salvation

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John Calvin

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Founded the Jesuits

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Ignatius de Loyola

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Wrote the book of courtier

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Baldassare Castiglione

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Dutch scholar was one of the first to criticize the church

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Writer who argued the rulers should only pursue power

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Niccilo Machiavelli

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Created movable type printing press

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Johannes Gutenburg

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Wrote the 95 thesis

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Martin Luther

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Artist that used science to make his paintings more realistic

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Created the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel

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Michaelangelo

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Wrote romantic poems about an imaginary ideal women

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Francesco Petrarch

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Humanists

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People who study history poetry rhetoric, grammar etc

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Perspective

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Used to make paintings more realistic

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Henry VIII

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Was given the title defender of the faith

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Johan tetzel

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Was ordered to raise funds for the church

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Theocracy

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Government ruled by religious leaders

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Thomas More

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Stated the individual ownership of land was evil

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Huldrych Zwingli

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Was calling for religious reform in Switzerland

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Indulgences

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Main complaint of the protestant reformers

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William Shakespeare

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Took classic stories and transform them into dramatic stories

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Charles V

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Tried to stop the spread of Protestantism in Germany

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Scientific method

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Reaching conclusions threw observing measuring and testing

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Subsides

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Government support of domestic industry

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Heliocentric

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Centered theory

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Triangular trade

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Exchange of goods for slaves

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Francis Bacon

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Believed no assumption could be trusted without repeat experimentation

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America Vespucci

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Believe that Columbus did not land in Asia

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Philip II

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Spanish ruler lost the Netherlands

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Mercantilism

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Stated it was responsibility of government to increase wealth

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Johannes Kepler

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Used mathematics to prove Copernicus was right

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Columbian exchange

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Trade between Europe and the Americas

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Edward VI

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Son of Henry VIII

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Cardinal Richlieu

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Believed that the hugenots posed a threat to national unity

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Elizabeth I

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Protestant English queen

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Frederick William

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Known as the great Elector

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Peter I

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Created the city of St. Petersburg

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Henry VII

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First tutdor king

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Philip V

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Louis XIVs grandson

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Frederick I

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First Hohenzollern king

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Henry IV

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First bourbon ruler

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King James I

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Created a new translation of the Bible

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Louis XIV

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Built the palace of Versailles

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Frederick II

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Didn’t want to become king when he was young

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Jean Baptiste Colbert

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Expert in finance

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Maria Theresa

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Inherited Hasburg lands due to pragmatic sanction

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Mary Stuart

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Queen of Scotland

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Louis XII

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Needed able advisors to rule effectively due to illness

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Peter III

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Unpopular czar, nursery by nobles

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Fredrick William I

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Required that all children must attend school

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Catherine II

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Supported the arts theater and literature

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Mary I

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reigning queen of England

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