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Test 6 Semester Exam Flashcards

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the Crusades revived interest in trade with

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the Orient

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Hugh Capet’s rule marked the beginning of this nation

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French

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the “Morning Star of the Reformation”

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John Wycliffe

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Sumerians divided by the number

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60

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rallied England to defeat the Spanish armada in 1588

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Elizabeth I

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Vasco de Balboa discovered this ocean

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Pacific Ocean

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Christopher Columbus’s voyages were sponsored by the king and queen of

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Spain

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the number of people who saw the resurrected Christ

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over 500

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Hieroglyphics refers to whose writing

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Egyptian

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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the New World. who settled it?

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the English

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Scottish preacher

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John Knox

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Viking explorer

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Leif Ericson

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defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours

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Charles Martel

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reformer in Zurich

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Ulrich Zwingli

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discovered Florida

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Ponce de Leon

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famous Greek philosopher

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Aristotle

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man for whom America is named

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Vespucci

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Pharaoh’s chief assistant

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Joseph

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great Athenian statesman

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Pericles

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led the building of the Tower of Babel

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Nimrod

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Greek conqueror of Persia

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Alexander

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founder of Islam

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Mohammed

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wrote History of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides

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great Frankish king

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Charlemagne

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father of the nation of israel

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Abraham

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a group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit

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nation

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Who was Confucius?

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Chinese philosopher

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the agreement that ended the Thirty Years’ War

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Peace of Westphalia

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the edict, issued by Constantine, that granted Christians the freedom to worship

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Edict of Milan

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founded China Inland Mission

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J. Hudson Taylor

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the year the King James version of the Bible was completed

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1611

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the belief in a continuous process of rebirth

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reincarnation

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the crusade that captured Asia Minor and Jerusalem

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First

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the man credited with creating the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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the king who, when offered whatever he wanted from God, asked for wisdom

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Solomon

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founders of Rome

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Latins

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sea-traders near Israel

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Phoenicians

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followers of Wycliffe

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Lollards

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lived on crete

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Minoans

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Arab nomads

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Bedouins

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the ancient empire founded by Hammurabi

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Babylonian

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built the “hanging gardens” for his wife

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Indians

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Hernando Cortes

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the first great king of England

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Alfred

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the Roman emperor who was first to persecute Christians

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Nero

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the French explorer who founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the New World

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Samuel de Champlain

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the country that developed the caste system

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India

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the river whose name means “arrow”

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Tigris River

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probably controlled more of the surface of the earth than any other human being in history

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Philip II

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considered the greatest English author of all time

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Shakespeare

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European who landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, starting the settlement of New World

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Christopher Columbus

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invented the movable-type printing press c. 1440

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Johann Gutenberg

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the year the Protestant Reformation began

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1517

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Hebrew chief adviser to Nebuchadnezzar

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Daniel

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the first European to travel the length of Asia

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Marco Polo

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the god of the Muslims

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Allah

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Carthaginian general who marched elephants across the Alps to attack Rome

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Hannibal

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the world’s longest fortification

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Great Wall of China

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the Greek city-state whose citizens constantly trained for war

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Sparta

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philosophy that puts man in place of or above God

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humanism

World history 7th Grade (16 decks)

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