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Question | Answer |
babar | established mogul empire in India |
canute | Danish king of England |
Hammurabi | created ancient law code in Babylon |
hannibal | led war elephants against tRome |
Hernando Cortes | conquered the Aztecs Indians |
Isaac Newton | father of modern science |
john wycliffe | morning star of the reformation |
Mansa Musa | great empire builder in africa |
mary tudor | bloody mary; persecuted Christians |
Michelangelo | painted the Sistine Chapel |
Muhammad | founder of Isam |
Nero | first Roman emperor to persecute Christians |
Nimrod | built world's first empire |
Pedro Cabral | discovered Brazil for Portugal |
Pericles | great statesman of ancient Athens |
Tertillian | early church father and martyr |
Tutankhamen | Egyptian pharaoh |
Homer | wrote Iliad and the Odyssey |
Ignatius Loyola | founded the Society of Jesus |
Johann Gutenberg | invented the movable printing press |
augsburg | confession first Prodestant confession of faith |
classic | work of excellence that has stood the test of time |
council of nicaea | rejected teaching of Arianism |
culture | a way of life of a group of people |
cuneiform | sumerian writing |
democracy | ruled by the many |
Edict of Nantes | granted toleration to Huguenots |
fief | a piece of land |
heraldry | worn on armor for identification |
huguenots | French calvinists prodestants |
inquistion | court roman church to try heretics |
parthenon | beautiful greek temple |
patricians | the rich of rome |
polytheist | worship of many gods |
reconquista | moors driven from spain |
scholasticism | combines greek philosophy roman theology |
shinto | Japan's oldest surviving religion |
theocracy | ruled by God' Israel's government before the kings |
john foxe | wrote the book of martyrs |
willian of orange | father of Dutch liberties |
william shakespeare | greatest English author of all times |
alexander the great | spread Hellenic culture |
charlemagne | was crowned emperor of the romans |
constantine | first Roman emperor to convert |
cyrus the great | established the Persian emire |
desiderius erasmus | produced first printed N.T. in original Greek |
Hatshepsut | egypt's only female pharaoh |
hugh Latimer, Thomas cranmer, Nicholas Ridley | protestant leaders during the reign of Edward Vii |
isaac watts | father of the English hymn |
johann eck | debated Luther at Leipzig |
john huss | bohemian reformer; burned at the stake |
john Knox | lead protestants in Scotland |
nebuchadnezzar | ruled Babylonian empire |
pope Gregory i | first medieval pope |
richelieu | powerful cardinal |
vasco de balboa | discovered the Pacific ocean |
battle of hastings | won by William the Conqueror in 1066 |
bible's name for Egypt | land of Ham |
date of Martin Luther posted the 95 theses | Oct.31,1517 |
ended the thirty-year wars | peace of Westphalia |
the English monarch that began the Reformation | henry vii |
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