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Jesus of Nazareth
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Herod the Great
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the Massacre of the Innocents
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Zealots
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Pharisees
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Essenses
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Paul of Tarsus
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Nero
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Caligula
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The Age of Martyrs
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Diocletian
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- Became emperor in 284 A.D tried to stabilize the Empire.
- Parents had been slaves
- Divided empire into four administrative districts
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Constantine
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Heresies
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Attilia the Hun
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- “Scourge of God” invaded the crumbling empire as far as Gaul
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The Rhine River
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Hadrian’s Wall
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The Anglosaxon
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- in the interim, completely converted to Christianity and become devout.
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Aetius
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- “Last of the Romans”
- Allied with the Germanic leader Theodoric I to defeat the Huns at the battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451.
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Romulus Agustulus
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- 476 official end date of the Roman Empire, due to Romulus being deposed by the semi-barbarian Odacer.
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Justinian
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Theodora
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The Hagia Sophia
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The Hippodrome
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The Prophet Mohammed
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Al-Andalus
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Mecca
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Abbasids
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Umayyads
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Baghdad
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Damscus
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Merovingians
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The Carolingians
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Charles Martel
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Charlemagne
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Count Rolands
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The Norse Pantheon
- Odin was head of the Norse pantheon
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Odin
- Battle against the primeval monsters which have been slumbering in hiding, waiting for their chance to strike.
- Head of the norse pantheon
- God of the dead, and of sorcery and magic, and along with his Valkyries was said to guide the souls of the heroic fallen into the afterlife.
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Loki
- The trickster god, is sometimes a friend and sometimes an enemy of the Aesir, as well as a shapeshifter who can change form and gender.
- At the end of the world, it is said, Loki finally frees himself and returns to exact vengeance on the gods.
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Berserkers
- Combined the shamanistic and warlike elements in viking society.
- Name comes from the bear shirt they wore into battle.
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Runes
- The norse had their own system of writing, called runes or the futhork, which were used from roughly the 3rd to 12th centuries.
- Typically not written, but carved into wood, bone, or stone, and so they were linear in style.
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The Rus
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Brian Boru
- Killed by a berserker named brodir, who was then himself killed by disemboweling.
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Ragnarok
- Norse mythology is unique in that it has an end-point: Ragnarok, the last battle at the end of the world.
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Normandy
- In order to pacify the Vikings, the French monarch granted them the permanent fiefdom of Normandy in 911.
- In 1066, the Vikings attempted their last invasion of England, led by Harold. Harold II stoppped it, but was himseld killed by Duke William of Normandy a few weeks later.
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The People's Crusade
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Raymond of Tuolouse
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The First,Third,and Fourth Crusades
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The Knights Templar
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"Deus Vult"
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Al-Kindi
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Ibn Sina
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Saladin
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Thomas Aquinas
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Kabbalists
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Averroes
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University of Bologna
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The Mongols
nomadic people of animistic beliefs; they attacked Muslim territories to the south, China and the Rus simultaneously.
- Battle of Ain Jaulut was a victory for the Egyptian Mamluks. It put a halt to further westward expansion by the Mongols.
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The Black Death
- Most notable crisis in the fourteenth century
- Named because the bodies of many victims turned black from subcutaneous bleeding.
- Bubonic Plague
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Avignon
- in 1309 the papacy relocated from Rome to Avignon
| - Avignon changed from an insignificant town to a center for art and trade, including a university.
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Caffa
The plague traveled to Europe after a mongol attack on the trading outpost of Caffa on the Black Sea.
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Genghis Khan
Known for uncivilized tactics in battle; During his conquest of the Khwarezmian Empire, he used prisoners as human shields and massacred the entire population of the capital city, leaving a pyramid of severed heads as a monument to his victory.0000000000000
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Kublai Khan
- After Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire split into small rival khanates before finally dissolving in the 1300s.
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Ogedai
- One of Genghis Khan's many sons
| - Europe was only saved by the death of Ogedai
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Batu
- Son of Ogedai
- Launched a campaign against the Rus, Hungary, and Poland in 1222.
- Aleksandr given to him as a royal hostage.
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Alexander Nevsky
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The Golden Khanate
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Joan of Arc
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The Medici
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St. Peter's Basillica
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Florence and Florentine art
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Machiavelli
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Dante Alighieri
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Humanism
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The Fall of Constantinople
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The Borgia
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The Ottomans
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Vlad the Impaler
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Erasmus
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Luther Calvin
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Henry VIII and Anglicanism
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York
cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet.
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Lancaster
Name of two cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
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The Tudors
- Ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1`603
| - First monarch King Henry VII
