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Who is the sixth king of the Amorites and wrote code of laws?

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Hammurabi

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Who was sent by God to the promised land?

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Abraham

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Who was the emperor who ruled the New Babylonian empire and reached its heights?

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Nebuchadnezzar

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Who was the greatest Persian conqueror who ever lived?

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Cyrus/Darius

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Who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey?

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Homer

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Who was the influential leader of Athens?

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Pericles

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Who was one of the greatest military leaders and strategists in world history?

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Alexander the Great

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Who lived in Athens in their golden age and devoted his life to seeking truth?

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Socrates

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Who established the school of philosophy and science in Athens, and wrote Republic?

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Plato

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Who was the Greek philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great, works on logic?

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Aristotle

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Who was the military genius who defeated the Roman army?

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Hannibal

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Who was the nephew of Marius, a military hero in Gaul and Britain?

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Julius Ceaser

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Who was Julius Ceaser’s nephew and avenged Julius Ceaser’s death and divided Rome?

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Ceaser Augustus

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Who was considered the greatest missionary?

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Paul

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Who was the official persecutor of Christians?

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Nero

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Who passed the Edict of Milan, and legalized Christianity?

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Constantine

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Who was the first Christian king of Aksum?

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King Ezana

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Who was Chandragupta Maurya’s grandson, and greatest ruler?

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Asoka

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Who was the first emperor of the Qin, who formalized Chinese writing?

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Qin Shi Huang

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Whose chief objective was to restore the greatness of the Roman territory?

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Justinian/Theodora

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Who claimed to be the last and greatest prophet of Allah?

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Muhammad

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Who was the exception of the Dark Ages, built an empire centered around France and crowned the Holy Roman Emperor?

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Charlemagne

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What was the group of invaders above France?

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Vikings

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Who was considered the strongest and most powerful pope?

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Pope Innocent the 3rd

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Who wrote the Common law and established circuit courts?
Henry the 2nd
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Who was viewed as a great crusader but gone from the kingdom too much and taken as captive?
Richard the Lionhearted
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Who lost lands in France and had to submit to the pope as a vassal, signed the Magna Carta?
John
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Who wrote that understanding truth requires Reason and faith, Summa Theologica?
Thomas Aquinas
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Who were the couple from Spain who talked people into fighting each other and conquering the opponent?
Ferdinand and Isabella
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Who made the Sistine Chapel depicting scenes from creation to Redemption?
Michelangelo
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Who made the Last Supper, Mona Lisa, a true Renaissance Man?
Leonardo da Vinci
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Who was the morning star of the Reformation and translated the Bible into English?
John Wycliffe
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Who was from Germany and became a monk after a close call with death, wrote the 95 Theses?
Martin Luther
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Who was from Geneva and wrote the institutes of the Christian Religion?
John Calvin
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Who tried to invade England in 1588, and lost against the Protestant Wind?
Philip the 2nd
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Who was from Zurich and rejected the Pope's authority, and argued against corruption in the church?
Zwingli
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Who was from Scotland and established a Presbyterian church in Scotland?
John Knox
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Who reaffirmed the Act of Suprememcey and allowed some tolerance for the Roman Catholic Church, persevered England from Spanish and Roman Catholic Church domination?
Elizabeth the 1st
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What word means a record of the past from creation to the present, revealing the actions of God and humans based on surviving evidence?
History
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What word means a group of people who establish cities, governments, social classes, specialized jobs, arts, science, written languages, and religion?
Civilization
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What word means worshipping one or more gods?
polytheism
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What word means the belief in one god?
monotheism
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What word means the Egyptian language that was decoded by the Rosetta stone?
Hieroglyphics
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What word means people governed directly by God?
theocracy
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What word means the scattering of Jewish people throughout history?
diaspora
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What is the rigid, social structure dictating entire life in India?
Caste
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What word means fulfilling your duty/dharma, you will be reborn into a higher caste until you escape?
Reincarnation
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What is outside of the Caste system and makes up 16% of India today?
Untouchables (Dalit)
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What is the state of absolute peace and happiness where one loses oneself in the world soul?
Nirvana
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What word means the belief that they are the center if the earth?
Middle Kingdom
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What word means the belief in myths?
Mythology
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What word means city-state was the basic political unit of Greece?
Polis
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What was the part of Greece that had a democracy?
Athens
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What was the part of Greece that had an oligarchy?
Sparta
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What is a government with an individual ruler who functions as the head?
Monarchy
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What word means a small group of people ruling?
Oligarchy
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What word means cruel and oppressive government or rule?
Tyranny
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What word means a state governed by a voted group?
Democracy
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What word means the study of the theoretical basis of knowledge?
Philosophy
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Who were the aristocratic class?
Patricians
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Who were the common people?
Plebians
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What word means the form of government in which representatives of the public rule?
Republic
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What word means line of rulers of a country who are of the same family?
Dynasty
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Who are the nomadic Arabs of Arabia?
Bedouin
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What word means an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca?
Haj
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What word means the month where Muslims fast and pray?
Ramadan
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What word means giving money and food to the poor?
Alms
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What word means a group of islands?
Archipelago
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What word means Japanese warriors?
Samurai
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What word means the moral code of the samurai?
Bushido
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What word means a foot support for horseback riding?
Stirrup
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What word means tents that moved, with Mongols?
Yurt
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What word means bishop of Rome, became known as the Head of the Church?
Pope
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What word means a religion believed in the father, son,and virgin mary?
Catholic
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What word means a religious act that grants grace and based on the recipient's right intentions?
Sacraments
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What word means the way of life in the Middle Ages, where everything was based on ownership of land?
Feudalism
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What word means a self-containing farming community contracted by lord and farmed by peasants?
Manor
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What word means people who provided food "some to work"?
serfs
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What words mean the way of knighthood?
Page/squire/knigt
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What word means to be honest, loyal, generous, protect noble women, respect the church, and honor concubines?
Chivalry
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What word means to cut of someone from sacraments and religious services?
Excommunicate
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What word means the suspension of public church services and sacraments in a given location?
Interdict
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What word means that Christ made Peter the 1st pope and gave him the supreme authority over the church?
Petrine theory
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What word means the church court designed to stamp out heresy using fear and torture?
Inquisition
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What word means no one, even the king is above the law? 1215
Magna Carta
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What is the house of common (lord) with the power of the purse?
Parliament
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What word means a plea from the Byzantines to help against the Muslim Turks?
Crusades
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What word means a trade organization to regulate the business activity of a town?
Guild
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What word means an attempt to reconcile Greek Philosophy and the Bible, organizing scripture into systematic doctrines?
Scholasticism
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What word means catholic warriors that reclaimed land from Moors?
Reconquista
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What word means the rebirth, the time of European history from the 14th century to the 16th century with the revival of learning?
Renaissance
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What word means movement protesting the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizing the Bible as the source of truth?
Reformation
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What word means a purchased certificate granting pardon from sins?
Indulgences
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What word means member of follower of any of the Western 1 Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the protestant principles?
Protestant

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