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first known Greek-civilization who lived on the island of Crete

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minoams

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first major battle fought in the Greco-Persian War

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marathon

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in which war did Hannibal invade Italy

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second

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who inaugurated India’s “Golden Age” ?

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Guptas

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Which of the following is NOT a Flavian emperor: Claudius, Domitian, Titus, or Vaspian

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Claudius

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what social class began ruling over Japan after the mikado lost its power?

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shogun

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what time period lasted from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1500

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Medieval Period

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what political office was headed by a monarch who represented the plebeians

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Tribune

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the first triumvirate was made up of Pompey, Crassus, and ____

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Julius Caesar

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rule by a few

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oligarchy

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what world empire conquered the southern kingdom of Israel

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Neo-Babylon

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what is the term for the common Roman language

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Vulgar Latin

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by what year did rome control the entire mediterranean world

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133 BC

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what Roman law refers to laws relating to numerous cases

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Equity

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having the ability and permission to rule others

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government

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Athens and their empire was known as _____ League

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Delian League

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the Greek word for witness

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martyr

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underground chambers used to bury bodies

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catacombs

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the king of Sparta and leader of the three famous Spartans

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Leonidas

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the Germanic tribes that invaded Italy and brought the majority of the western empire under their control

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Visigoths

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date of Julius Caesar’s assassination

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March 15, 44 BC

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gentiles who converted to Christianity

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proselytes

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Diocletian ruled in Eastern Rome while _____ ruled Western Rome after the empire was divided in Ad 284

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Maximian

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leader during the Pax Romana

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Augustus

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greatest of the church fathers
Augustine
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destroyed the temple in Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
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"the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church"
Tertullian
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developed the world's first postal system
Darius
22
started the 10th and greatest persecutions of christians
Diocletian
23
issued the edict of milan
constantine
24
greatest of the apologists
Justin Martyr
25
greatest poet of the Golden Age of Latin Literature
Virgil
26
first leader of the middle kingdom of Egypt
Mentuhotep II
27
the great sphinx bears his image
Khafre
28
builder of the world's first great library
Ashurbanipal
29
first great emperor of the Eastern Roman empire
Constantine
30
wrote On the Commonwealth
Cicero
31
made Christianity the state religion of rome
Theodosius
32
first recognized as supreme over the Catholic church
Leo I
33
first great king of england
Alfred the great
34
leader of the jesuits
Ignatius Loyola
35
led Portugal in its greatest days of glory
John I
36
started the Holy Roman empire
Otto the Great
37
first Archbishop of Canterbury
Augustine
38
"Morningstar of the Reformation"
John Wycliffe
39
carried out the Babylonian Captivity of the papacy
Phillip IV
40
started the English reformation
King Henry VIII
40
set up Model Parliament
Edward I
40
first Protestant king of France
Henry IV
41
what peninsula do Spain and Portugal share
Iberian
42
What treaty formed the modern nation of France and Germany
The Treaty of Versailles
42
who wrote Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
43
what country became the music center of the world
france
44
who painted the sistine chapel
Michelangelo
44
who won the English Civil war
Roundheads
45
what composer was a child prodigy
Mozart
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who won the Boer war
the British
47
who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe
Sir Francis Drake
47
Henry VIII's only son
Edward VI
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first black bishop of the church of england
Samuel Crowther
49
made France the most powerful nation in Europe
Louis IX
50
first Tudor king
Henry VII
51
Who led the Protestants in Scotland?
John Knox
52
Who was the Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus
53
founded quebec
champlain
54
father of the English hymn
Isaac Watts
55
started plantagenet line of kings
Henry II
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Last stuart monarch
Queen Anne
57
best known evangelist of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
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What is the term for withdrawing in society and living in solitude
Monasticism
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what industrial giant founded the largest steel company in the world
Andrew Carnegie
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earliest known inhabitants of the British isles
celts
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Who was Henry VIII's daughter who was a beloved queen of England
Elizabeth I
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Who gave us the Law of Universal Gravitation
Sir Isaac Newton
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What battle was Napoleon's final defeat
Battle of Waterloo
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the first medieval university
Salerno
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natives of Australia
Aborigines
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natives of New Zealand
Māori
65
conquered the Aztecs
Cortes
66
south African Dutch farmers
Boers
67
first Protestant University in Europe
University of Wittenberg
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king of France at the start of the french revolution
Louis XVI
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John Bunyan wrote ______, England's greatest allegory.
Pilgrim's Progress
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The storing of the ____ initiated the French Revolution
Bastille
70
discovered hawaii
Captain James Cook
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establishment of colonies to benefit an empire
imperialism
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father of American missions
Adoniram Judson
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first Independent African republic
Liberia
74
donating of money to social issues to help the less fortunate
Philanthropy
75
discovered Australia
James Cook
76
in what year was King James Bible authorized
1611
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inventor of the steel plow
John Deere
78
invented a coal-burning steam engine
James Watt
79
invented the first practical steamship
Robert Fulton
79
first steam-powered locomotive
Stephenson
80
germ theory of disease
Louis Pasteur
81
"Father of French Romanticism"
82
dictator of France
83
wrote the "Hallelujah Chorus"
84
leader of the Ironsides
85
famous missionary explorer
85
"Father of Modern Missions"
86
wrote Paradise Lost
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first ambassador to Japan
88
"Father of Anatomy"
89
led the committee of public safety
89
greatest naval hero
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"Prince of Preachers"
91
wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England
92
"Father of Anatomy"
93
popularized the theory of evolution

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