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Test 11. Ch 12 Flashcards

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Roman Emperor who made it a crime to be a Christian

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Nero

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First great missionary of the Christian church

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Paul the apostle

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An early Christian martyr who refused to blaspheme God

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Polycarp

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Roman Emperor who gave Christians freedom to worship

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Constantine

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First man to translate the entire Bible into English

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Wycliffe

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A Bohemian burned at the stake for preaching that only Christ could forgive sin

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Huss

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The man who invented the printing press

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Gutenberg

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An armed man who fought other men in the Colosseum for sport

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Gladiator

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Christians who were willing to give up their lives rather than denying the Lord

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Martyrs

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Underground cemeteries beneath the city of Rome

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Catacombs

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Huge outdoor arena in Rome

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Colosseum

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Tribes that invaded Rome

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Visigoths and Vandals

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A special court set up to try and punish heretics

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The Inquisition

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The head of the Roman Catholic Church

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The pope

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New capital of the eastern Roman empire built by Constantine

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Constantinople

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The land owned by a lord during the Middle Ages

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Manor

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Trained warriors who promised to help the Lord by his enemies

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Knights

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The efforts to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks

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The Crusades

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The event that began the Middle Ages

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The fall of Rome

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Men who lived in monasteries and copied Scriptures by hand

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Monks

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A long trip taken for religious purposes

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Pilgrimage

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The country where the Protestant Reformation began

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Germany

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People who worked the Lord’s land

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Peasants

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Most important invention in history of the world

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The printing press

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The Ninety-Five Theses was nailed to the church door by this man

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Martin Luther

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The largest country in the world

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Russia

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World’s largest lake

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Caspian Sea

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Highest mountain in the Alps

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Monte Blanc

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The only continent with no large desert

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Europe

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Europe’s most important inland waterway

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The Rhine River

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Highest spot in Europe

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Mount Elbrus

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Europe’s largest mountain system

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The Alps

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Read about the tropical rain forest and remember five interesting facts that you can put into paragraph

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Read about the rain forest

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Study state locations on a map

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Especially do these:
Washington, Minnesota, Alabama, California, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Colorado, New York, Maine, Texas, Tennessee, Wyoming, Alaska, and Nevada

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