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1
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What do we know about the historical Jesus

A

Not much

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2
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What are the sources for Jesus’s life

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Historians
Dead Sea scrolls
Gospels

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3
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How were the Dead Sea scrolls found

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In cave in Israel in jars

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4
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What branch of the Jewish faith caused the most trouble to the Christians

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Zealots

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5
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Sir/St. Thomas Moore

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Wrote utopia

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6
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Francesco Petrarch

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Father of Humanism

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7
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Dante Alighieri

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Wrote Divine Comedy

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8
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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wrote Canturbury Tales

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9
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Giotto di Bondone

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Created Scrovengi Chapel

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10
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Donatello

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Create first here at bronze statue David

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11
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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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Made Gates of Paradise

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12
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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Modern Political Theory
Wrote the prince

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13
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Raphael Sanzio

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Great at painting
Paint School of Athens

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14
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Gutenberg

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First moveable type Printing press

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15
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Andreas Vesalius

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Write The Fabric of the Human Body

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16
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Baldassare Castiglione

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Wrote The book of the Courtier

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17
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Titan

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Painted Assumption of the Virgin

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18
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Bernini

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Greatest Sculptor
Apollo and Daphne

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19
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Bellini

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Painted Agony in the Garden

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20
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Botticelli

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Primadonna
Birth of Venus

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21
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Pieter Bruge

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Paint Peasents in Northern Europe

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22
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Bosch

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Garden of Earthly Delights

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23
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Albrecht Durer

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Use initials to sign works

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24
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Peter Paul Rubens

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Really big works of art
Buff people

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25
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Galileo Galilei

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Everything around sun
Write Starry messenger
Laws of inertia and falling objects

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26
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Modern day microscope

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27
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William Harvey

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Everything connected: circulatory system

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28
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Robert Boyle

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Modern chemistry

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29
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Christine de Pizan

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Write manual for warfare and how soldiers supposed to use weapons

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30
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Isabella d’este

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Powerful, people want to be like her, host big parties

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31
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Sofanisba Anguisola

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Trained by Michelangelo, really good painter, first successful female artist

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32
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Artemisia Gentilleschi

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Portray women always up to something, a lot of blood and heads

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33
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Martin Luther

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95 Theses

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34
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John Wycliffe

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First to translate bible into English

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35
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John Huss

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Say need to change things in church, burned at steak

36
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Desiderius Erasmus

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Write In Praise of Folley

37
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John Calvin

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Think church should take things REALLY seriously

38
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Johann Tetzel

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Biggest helper with indulgences, enemy to Martin Luther

39
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Pope Leo X

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Medici
Cardinal at 10
Love fancyness
Lots of enemys

40
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Ferdinand and Isabella

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The Catholics
Power couple
Helped Columbus
Inquisition

41
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King Charles 1 or Charles 5 Holy Roman Emperor

A

Spain
Abdicate and join Monestary

42
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Philip 2

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Spain
Try to invade England when Elizabeth queen
Doesn’t go well

43
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Henry 2

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France
Crummy Job

44
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Louis 13

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Advisor help him rule
Live in hunting cabin

45
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Louis 14

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France
Make Versaillais
Very extravagant

46
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Henry 8

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England
6 wives
Anglican Church

47
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Peter the Great

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Russia
Mimic Western Europe

48
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Catherine the Great

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Russia
Gained ukrain

49
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Maria Theresa

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Austria-Hungary
Mother of Marie Antoinette
Play politics

50
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Fredrick 2 “Fritz”

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Prussia
Great military strategist
Loved dogs

51
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Gustavus

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Sweden
Military guy

52
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William of Orange

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Netherlands
Successor of Elizabeth 1

53
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John 5

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Portugal
Port wine

54
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Philip 4

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France
Try to tax the church’s land

55
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Vikings

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Head into the West

56
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Chinese

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Explore around the Pacific 

57
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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portugal
Start transporting slaves from Africa 

58
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Bartolemeu Dias

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Portugal
Go around southern tip of Africa, to India 

59
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Christopher Columbus

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Spain
Go to the Americas 

60
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Vasco DaGama

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Portugal
Go to India and bring back stuff to sell 

61
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Cabbot Bros

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England
Go to Canada

62
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Vespucci

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Portugal
Map maker
America named after him 

63
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Cabral

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Portugal
First to sail across Atlantic

64
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Albuquerque

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Portugal
Take a lot of land in India and spice islands

65
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Balboa

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Spain
First Spaniard to see the Pacific Ocean 

66
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de Leon

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Spain
Find Florida peninsula 

67
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Cordova

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Spain
Find Yucatán peninsula

68
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Cortez

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Spain
Encounter Aztec empire 

69
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Magellan

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Portugal
Find the pacific ocean 

70
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Verrazano

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France
First to sail through New York harbor 

71
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Pizarro

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Spain
Encounter the Incas 

72
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Cartier

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France
Build fort now Montreal 

73
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Ulloa

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Spain
Explore Baja 

74
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Desoto

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Spain
See Mississippi river 

75
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Coronado

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Spain
See Grand Canyon

76
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Alarcon

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Spain
Go up Colorado river 

77
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Aviles

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Spain
Establish first city in America 

78
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Francis Drake

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England
Circumnavigate world again 

79
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Sir. Walter Raleigh

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England
Set up colony on Roanoke island 

80
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Champlain

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France
Sea great lakes 

81
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John Smith

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England
Set up Jamestown 

82
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Henry Hudson

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England
Try to go around north of America
Mutiny 

83
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Joliet & Marquette

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France
Fur trapper and Priest
Explore great lakes 

84
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la Salle

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France
Louisiana 

85
Q

What were some things that were good about the Middle Ages?

A

First Universities
Get payed for your work
First cities

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