WH midterm review/study guide

Question 1

Beginning of recorded history (4000 B.C.) Fall of Rome (AD 500)

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Ancient history

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Fall of rome (A.D, 500)- Protestant Refromation (A.D. 1517)

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Medieval History

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The beginning of the protestant refromation to present time

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Modern History

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Man “evolved” from animals: removes God as creator

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evolution

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God’s supreme power over all nations,rulers,and individuals of a government

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God’s Sovreignty

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the attempt of man to exalt himself over God

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Humanism

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large group of people that think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity

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Nation

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the focal point of all history

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life of Christ

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what is the location of the garden of eden

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fertile cresent

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what people were the first to use education

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sumerians

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the way of life of a group of people

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culture

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what was the sumerian writing before written language

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cuneiform

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greek name for the “land between the rivers”

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mesopotamia

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First to rule after Sumer; Central portion of the Fertile Crescent

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Old Babylonian

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rule officially started the old Babylonian empire

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Hammurabi

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First empire to use iron weapons

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Hittites

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Captured Northern Kingdom of Israel

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Assyrians

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built the world’s 1st great library

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Ashburnipal

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conquered the Fertile Crescent & Southern Israel

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Nebuchadnezzer

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what nations ruler was under the law

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persia

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conquered Babylon

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Cyrus the Great

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was a main highway for trade & travel

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Israel

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Father of the nation of Israel

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Abraham

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2nd King of Israel (after Saul)

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David

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David's son

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Solomon

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the religon of mohamed

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islam

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the "god" of islam

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Mohammed

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largest continent

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asia

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subcontinent

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india

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mountain range that surrounds india

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Himalayas

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First people of india

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aryans

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the religon of india in which Becoming one with the spirit of Brahma, the of universal soul of all living things is the goal

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hinduism

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the system of classes in india

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caste system

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native indian family that controlled india from 321 bc to 184 bc

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Mauyra

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greatest leader of the maurya

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ashoka

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who created buddism

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Siddharthu Gautama

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indias "golden age" empire

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gupta

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Who was the first to rule over a united china

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Shih Huang Ti

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What was the largest continental empire

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Mongal

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brought egypt to the height of its power

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Amenhotep

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who gave egypt its nicknames

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herodotus

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the greatest ancient civilization in Africa’s interior

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cush

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The greatest ruler of the Mali Empire

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Mansa Musa

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the belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits

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aminism

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First important post-diluvian civilization in greece

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minoans

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what people grouped lived on mycenae on the main land

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Mycenaeans

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whose stories and ideas became the basis of greek religon

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homer

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General who blocked the persians for a while with 300 men

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Leonidas

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who brought true democracy to athens

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pericles

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Sparta V. Athens

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Pelopennesian war

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city state

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polis

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aristotle's student

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Alexander the great

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last stretch of wars before rome became the greatest nation

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punic wars

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man that attempted to use elephants in war and attacked rome from the north

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hannibal

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guy that was scared of julius

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pompey

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the new testament called octavian what

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ceaser augustus

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ruled the empire during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and at the time of the Savior’s death, resurrection, and ascension around A.D. 30

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Tiberius

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the 200 years of roman peace

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pax romana

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who won the civil war after diocletian died

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constantine

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who burned rome then blamed the christians

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Nero

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bishop of Antioch, who was taken to Rome in A.D. 110 and thrown to wild beasts in the Colosseum

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ignatious

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declared: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”

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tertullian

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formed the eoc

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Byzantine

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1st great emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire

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Justinian I

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1st recognized as supreme over the Roman Catholic Church (445)

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Leo 1

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Translated the Bible from Latin into English

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John Wycliffe

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used christianity as a political tool

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clovis

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first empire in europe after the fall of rome

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Franks

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Crowned Emperor of the New Roman Empire on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III

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Charlamagne

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Crowned Emperor of the Romans in 962 starting the Holy Roman Empire

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Otto the great

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wrote Divine Comedy about a vision he had of heaven, hell, & purgatory

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dante

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Catholic professor from Bohemia

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John Huss

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Catholic church meeting that executed

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Council of Constance

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king of wessex who defeated the danes and confined them to danelaw, 1st great king of england

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alfred the great

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grandson of Henry I who started the Plantagenet Line of kings

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Henry II

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Arrested Boniface which began the “Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy”

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Philip IV

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argued with Philip the fair for land in france

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Boniface VIII

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started a school for navigation and exploration

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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taught that the Catholic church was “distorting” God’s Word

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erasmus

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French Protestant Reformation leader

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John Calvin

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Son of Charles V Fanatical support of the church led to his failed invasion of England (1588)

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Phillip II

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led Protestants in their fight vs. the Catholics

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Gaspard de Coligny

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aided the protestants during the 30 years war

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Gustavus Adolphus

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peace treaty that ended the war in 1648; did not change anything from before the war

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Peace of Westphilia

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German astronomer who discovered 3 laws of planetary motion

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Johanes kepler

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“Father of Microbiology

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Anton von Leeuwenhoek

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best known for the oratorio, Wrote the Messiah

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George H. Handel