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97 Cards in this Set
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Who do Sunnis regard as the first caliph?
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Abu Bakr
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What was the dynasty that conquered North Africa and Spain?
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Umayyad
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Who held Palestine and the Holy Land immediately before the Crusades began?
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Seljuk Turks
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In what European city is a large mosque?
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Cordoba
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Wergild=
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money for a man
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Name 2 groups that invaded Europe between 800 and 1000
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Mongols, Vikings
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What king increased the power and income of the French monarchy from 1180- 1223?
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Philip II
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Which pope was the first to call for the Crusades?
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Pope Urban II
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WHat was the name given to the collection of Germanic states in the center of Europe which sought to control the pope's lands throughout the Middle Ages?
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Holy Roman Empire
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Whom did the knights of Henry II slay at Canterbury?
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Thomas a' Becket
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What Roman emperor simplified and collected Roman laws for the Byzantine Empire?
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Justinian
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conquered England at Battle of Hastings?
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William of Normandy
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Fief=
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land lord gives to vassal
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2 chief cities of Islam?
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Mecca, Medina
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What branch of Islam follows after Ali and Hussein?
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Shi'ites
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Who ruled the Franks and was crowned "emperor of the Romans?"
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Charlemagne
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Secular=
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worldly
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Piero della Francesca?
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writer in the Renaissance
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What new thing did Florentine painters use?
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law of perspective
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What did Badassare Castiglione write?
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"The book of the Courtier"
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name 3 Italian city-states
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Venice, Milan, Florence
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who does Van Doren say is the originator of the revival of classical learning which led to the Renaissance?
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Petrarch
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Whose cultures did the Renaissance revive?
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Greek and Roman
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Who engaged in a series of public readings of Dante's "Divine Comedy" in Florence?
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Boccacio
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Versimilitude=
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like reality
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Whose head rested on an edition of Vergil when he died?
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Petrarch's
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In what city did Petrarch turn down the opporunity to become poet laureate, and in what city did he accept?
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Paris
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What did Boccacio write?
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"Decameron"
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Renaissance man has a scientific knowledge or educational aquaintance?
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Educational aquaintance
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Who painted the "Last Supper"?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Who painted the "Mona Lisa"?
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Who did van Doren describe as a "Renaissance man par excellence"?
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Pico della Mirandola
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Who desired to defend 900 diff theses from the ancient world?
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Pico della Mirandola
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Name all 4 of Francis Bacon's "idols"
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tribe
marketplace theater cave |
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Who was born in France and had a German-speaking Latin tutor?
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Montaine
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Did Martin Luther's father want him to be a lawyer?
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Yes
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Where did Martin Luther make a brilliant speech defending the ideas of the Church?
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Imperial Diet of Worms
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What era emphasized that ppl should read the Bible on their own and figure it out for themselves?
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Protestant Reformation
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What did Desiderius Erasmus write?
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"In Praise of Folly"
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What did John Calvin write?
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"Institutes of the Christian Religion"
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What emperor put Luther on trial?
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Charles V
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What phrase describes the Protestants gaining official recognition at the Peace of Augsburg
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"cuius region, eius religio"
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What did John Calvin emphasize?
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Predestination
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Who was king during the English Reformation?
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Henry VIII
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What did Miguel de Cervantes write?
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"Don Quixote"
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Name 2 Renaissance humanists after Petrarch, Bocaccio, and Dante Alighieri.
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Montaigne, Erasmus
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Who developed the printing press in Europe?
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Johann Gutenberg
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City state vs. nation state?
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City states smaller, less power
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Why was there a surplus of rags for paper?
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BLACK DEATH
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Where was Erasmus born?
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Netherlands
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What book did Erasmus compile a Greek text for?
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New Testament
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What did Thomas More write?
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"Utopia"
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What king did Thomas More serve?
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Henry VIII
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Who was an Augustinian monk before becoming a professor of theology at Wittenberg?
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Martin Luther
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What did John Locke write?
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"Toleration"
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Name an important invention for navigation
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Astrolabe
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Whose court did Marco Polo visit while in Asia?
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Kublai Khan's
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What were Spanish explorers' primary motives?
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God, gold, glory
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What treaty divided the exploration of the world b/w Portugal and Spain?
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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What were slave ships' journeys from Africa to America known as?
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Middle Passage
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Who issued the Edict of Nantes?
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Henry of Navarre
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armada=
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fleet of warships
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What ended the Thirty Years' War?
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Peace of Westphalia
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What nation did Philip II defeat at Lepanto?
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Turks
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Who came after Elizabeth I?
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James I
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Who led the Dutch revolt against the Spanish?
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William the Silent
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Who were the 2 sides in the English Civil War?
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Roundheads and Puritans.
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Who was in Glorious Revolution?
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William and Mary
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absolutism=
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ruler has total power
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Who was best example of absolutism?
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Louis XIV
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What Russian led his country into Westernizing?
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Peter the Great
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Who was the most prominent mannerist painter?
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El Greco
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What art showed religious ecstacy?
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mannerism
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What religion is Baroque art associated with?
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catholic
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What English writer is most associated with the Golden Age?
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Shakespeare!!!!
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What Spanish playwright wrote b/w 500-1500 plays?
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Lope de Vaga
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What other book did John Locke write?
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"Two Treatises of Government"
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What did Thomas Hobbes write also?
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"Leviathan"
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Christian slaves taken for service in the sultan's armies were called?
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janissaries
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What date did Ottomans take Constantinople?
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1453
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Who were responsible for overseeing legal and educational systems of Ottoman Empire?
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ulema!
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Shah is the Farsi term for
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King
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Safavids were what kind of Islam?
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Shi'ite
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Who built the Taj Mahal?
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Shah Jahan
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what is lay investiture?
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intallation of a bishop not by the pope
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Black Plague killed what fraction of the people affected?
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1/4 - 1/2
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van Doren decribes Petrarch as an
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autodidact (taught himself)
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"I take all knowledge as my province" best describes who?
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Francis Bacon
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"he never wanted to be anything but a sincere, if nonaggressive Catholic" best describes
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Erasmus
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you know what someone is talking about means?
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educational aquaintance
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who was an important patron of the arts in Florence?
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Lorenzo de Medici
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who said "Paris is well worth a mass"?
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Henry of Navarre when he took over (Henry IV)(Bourbon)
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What did Pascal write?
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"Pensees"
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what did Rosseau write?
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"the Social Contract"
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was Aurangzeb a tolerant ruler?
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no
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what did Mary Wollstonecraft write??
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"Vindication of the Rights of Man/Woman"
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what did Voltaire write?
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"A Treatise on Toleration"
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