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21 Cards in this Set
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Robin Hood |
historical legend who "stole"from the king and fought to help the poor in corrupt England during the middle ages |
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Crusade |
a series of holy wars fought between the christians and muslims over who would control jerusalem |
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richard the lion hearted |
king of england who died while fighting in the third crusade |
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magna carta |
great charter; limited the power of the king in england |
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little john |
one of robin hood's merry men; sidekick |
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friar tuck |
the villiage priest in the tales of robin hood, becomes one of the merry men |
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marion |
woman who becomes robin hood's wife |
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godfrey |
king john's most trusted advisor who is playing him for a fool, as he is truly a french spy |
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anglos |
english tribe who live south of the hadrians wall |
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SAXONS |
english tribe who live north of hadrians wall; known for being vicious |
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king arthur |
legedary king who resided at camelot; historical records say he was a roman soldier who becomes the first true king of the english people |
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guinevere |
agnlo woman who marries arthur |
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sarmatian knights |
the legendary "knights of the round table" ; forced to fight for rome |
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lancelot |
arthurs most trusted knight; in kegend he has an affair with guinevere |
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hua mulan |
chinese female legened who fought in the chinese military for many years as a man; she fought undetected until she was wounded in battle several years later. many poems were written about her |
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great wall of china |
wall built to protect china from northern invaders |
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huns |
nomadic tribe which tried to endlessly invade china |
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confucianism |
chinese philosophy that believes in respect, ancestral worship, and education |
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romanov |
russian noble family from the 17th century until 1917 |
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rasputin |
a mystic advisor to the romanov family in an effort to heal alexi romansv hemophilia |
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hemopilia |
a blood clotting disease; known also as the royal disease |
