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96 Cards in this Set
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Trojan War
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Greeks against Trojans
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Homer
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Greek play writer
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Iliad
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play written by Homer
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Odyssey
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play written by Homer about Trojan War
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Socrates
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Greek philosopher famous for asking "Why?"
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Plato
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pupil of Socrates; said to have "created" Socrates
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Aristotle
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famous pupil of Plato
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Monarchy
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king and queen rule
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Sparta
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south of Greece; later overtaken by Greece
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Athens
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capital of Greece
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Marathon
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runner/messenger for Greek army
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Alexander the Great
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king who conquered most of Europe
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Hannibal
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king with many laws
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Julius Caesar
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one of the best Greek rulers
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Constantinople
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capital of the Byzantine empire
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Renaissance
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time in which Europe's reasoning and art were improved vastly
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Leonardo da Vinci
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one of the greatest artists and inventors of all time
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Michelangelo
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best sculptor in history
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Martin Luther
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created Lutheranism, the first form of Protestantism.
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Henry VIII
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separated England from the Catholic church and made England Protestant
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Henry VIII's daughter; made England Catholic again
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Copernicus
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proposed that the earth revolved around the sun
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Heliocentric
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idea that the earth revolves around the sun
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Galileo
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proved the earth revolves around the sun
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Isaac Newton
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proposed why gravity works
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Christopher Columbus
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"discovered" the Americas
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Circumnavigate
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travel around the entire world
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Aztecs
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mid-American people who greeted Columbus
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Montezuma
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leader of the Aztecs
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Miguel de Cervantes
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writer of Don Quixote
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Don Quixote
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play that mocked typical chivalry stories
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Louis XIV
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"Sun" king of England; thought he was equal with god
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Versailles
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capital of Louis XIV's empire
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Peter the Great
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Russian Czar who tried to westernize Russia
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John Locke
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believed everyone was born with a set of natural rights
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Montesquieu
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believed that limited monarchy was the best form of government
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Declaration of Independence
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document in which the American colonies became the United States of America
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July 4, 1776
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independence day (US observed)
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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natural rights
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Guillotine
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execution machine used to kill people quickly and more efficiently
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Napoleon
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French dictator; ruled what became known as the Second Reich
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Industrial Revolution
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the world becomes more technologically advanced
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Laissez-faire
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idea that the government should have no hand in buisnesses
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Karl Marx
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created the idea of communism
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The Communist Manifesto
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book written by Karl Marx that explains in detail the idea of communism
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Charles Darwin
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proposed the idea of evolution
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Otto von Bismarck
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Chancellor of Prussia
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Realpolitik
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politics based on the needs of the state
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Imperialism
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domination by one country of the political, eonomic, or cultural life of another
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Sphere of Influence
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nations influenced by the US
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Black Hand
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assasin group
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Schlieffen Plan
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slow German advance on Russia
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Fourteen Points
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list of terms Woodrow Wilson created for resolving wars
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Treaty of Versailles
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forced post-WW I Germany to do what the 5 biggest nations told them to
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Rasputin
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monk said to have cured the last Czar's son of an incurable disease; evil
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Lenin
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first dictator of Russia
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Leon Trotsky
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right hand man to Lenin; origionally set to be his successor
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Joseph Stalin
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took over after Lenin died; blamed everything bad on Trotsky
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Mohandes Gandhi
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lead india to a peaceful independence
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Jian Jieshi
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ruler of China before it became communist
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Mao Zedong
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communist leader of china
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The Long March
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peaceful communist march to hide from the repressing armies of Jieshi
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The Great Depression
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time in which the entire world's economy suffered great losses; didn't affect communist countries
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian dicatator
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Il Duce
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"our leader;" Mussolini's nickname
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Adolf Hitler
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German Nazi Dictator
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Nazis
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people who followed Hitler's ways and sought to rid the world of the "lesser races"
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Main Kampf
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"My Struggles;" written by Hitler; Nazi "bible"
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Kristallnacht
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night raid on all things Jewish
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Concentration Camps
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"camps" in whichthe Nazis conducted mass murders
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Nurmenburg Laws
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laws placed on post-WWII Germany by the 5 bigger countries
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Appeasement
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policy of giving in to an agressor's terms in order to keep peace
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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agreement between Germany and Russia not to kill eachother for the time being
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Blitzkrieg
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method of battle in which a full on, non-stop assault takes place on the other side
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D-Day
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Allies invasion of German-occupied France
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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first two places ever nuclear bombed during war
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United Nations
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organization of most of the world's nations whose goal is to improve the world
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Iron Curtain
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unspoken line between US and Russian influence
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Containment
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US plan to get rid of communism
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NATO
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North Atlantic Trade Organization
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Warsaw Pact
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Soviet response to the formation of NATO
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Cold War
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unspoken war of technology and influence between Russia and US; communism versus democracy
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OPEC
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organization of major oil-producing countries in the Middle East
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Sputnik
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first sattelite ever to enter space
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Yuri Gargarin
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first man in space
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Neil Armstrong
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first man on the moon
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Detente
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relaxation of tension
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Soviet leader who tried to ease tensions and loosened government's grip on Russia
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European Union
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economic union of European countries; common currency is the euro
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Glasnost
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idea of openness
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Perestroika
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Gorbachev's restructuring of government
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Deng Xiaoping
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ruler after Mao Zedong set on rebuilding China's economy
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Tiananmen Square
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peaceful revolt against Chinese empire in which millions of innocent revolters were murdered by the army
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Pan Arabism
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nationalist movement in the Arabian Peninsula
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Balfour Declaration
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set up Israel to give to the Jews
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Saddam Hussein
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Iraq dictator
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