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62 Cards in this Set
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Greek marketplace |
agora |
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singing poet |
bard |
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freed slave who wrote many fables |
Aesop |
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comes from "people" and "rule" |
democracy |
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author of Illiad and Odyssey |
Homer |
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Romans invented it to help build strong structures |
concrete |
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city a Rome fought the Punic Wars against |
Carthage |
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first emperor of Roman empire |
Augustus Caesar |
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"crossed the rub Rubicon" |
Julius Caesar |
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Carthaginian general who used elephants |
Hannibal |
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first great missionary of the Christian church |
Paul |
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Roman emperor who allowed the Christians freedom |
Constantine |
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copied the Scriptures |
monks |
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efforts to take back Jerusalem |
Crusades |
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Lollards |
John Wycliffe |
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inventor of the printing press |
John Gutenberg |
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Protestant Reformation began in |
Germany |
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Protestant Reformation began by |
Martin Luther |
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first translation of the entire Bible into English |
John Wycliffe |
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first explorer to reach North America |
John Cabot |
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first Englishman to sail around the world |
Sir Francis Drake |
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greatest writer of the Elizabethan Age |
William Shakespeare |
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architect who rebuilt London |
Sir Christopher Wren |
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capital of Scotland |
Edinburgh |
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capital of Ireland |
Dublin |
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capital of England |
London |
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capital of Northern Ireland |
Belfast |
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capital of Wales |
Cardiff |
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most famous English preacher of the Wesleyan Revival |
George Whitfield |
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"Father of the Sunday School Movement" |
Robert Raikes |
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founder of the modern nursing profession |
Florence Nightingale |
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man who perfected the steam engine |
James Watt |
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discovered Australia |
Captain James Cook |
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Prime Minister of England during WWII |
Winston Churchill |
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Prime Minister of England who returned England to the Protestant work ethic |
Margaret Thatcher |
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"backbone of England" |
Pennines |
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England's principle river |
Thames |
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largest country in Great Britian |
England |
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"Emerald Isle" |
Ireland |
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longest river in the British Isles |
Shannon |
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England belonged to what empire for 400 years |
Rome |
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Britain's most important gift to the New World |
Biblical heritage |
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document signed in 1215 that limited the monarch's power |
Magna Carta |
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a time when machines began to do the work formerly done by men and animals |
Age of Industry |
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first printed version of the English Bible |
Miles Coverdale |
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"Father of Modern Missions" |
William Carey |
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world's largest landmass |
Eurasia |
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eighth largest island |
Great Britian |
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William the Counqueror's victory |
Norman Conquest |
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Queen Elizabeth defeated |
Spanish Armada |
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those who came to the New World from England for religious freedom |
Pilgrims |
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leader of the Roundheads |
Oliver Cromwell |
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followers of Charles I |
Cavaliers |
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Biblical teaching that God experts us to do our best |
Protestants Work Ethic |
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"I will be good" |
Queen Victoria |
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the false idea that the Bible does not mean what it says |
modernism |
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the false teaching of evolution was made popular by |
Charles Darwin |
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largest country in the world |
Russia |
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highest spot in Europe |
Mt. Elbrus |
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only continent with no large deserts |
Europe |
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world's largest lake |
Caspian Sea |
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Europe's most important inland waterway |
Rhine River |
