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69 Cards in this Set
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285
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Diocletian
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315
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The Roman empire converted to Christianity
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330
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Constantinople founded
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378
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The Romans defeated by the Goths at Adrianople
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410
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The sack of Rome and recall of the English garrisons
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476
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Death of last western Roman emperor
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541
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Plague in Constantinople
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536
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Coldest winter in 10000 years
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597
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Augustine arrives in England
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732
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Battle of Tours; Muslims are stopped by Charles Martel
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1054
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Final split between the eastern and western church
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1066
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Norman conquest of England and Sicily
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1191
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Most of the Crusader kingdoms fall
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1215
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Magna Carta; Fourth Lateran Council
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1250
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Plato is rediscovered by the West
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1204
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Fourth Crusade
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1309
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Papacy moved to Avignon
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1377
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Great Schism
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1450
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Gutenberg invents the printing press
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1453
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Constantinople falls to the Turks
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200-300
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Crisis in the Roman empire!
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300-400
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Recovery from crisis!
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400-500
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Ethnogenesis!
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500-600
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Justinian: the Golden Dream that died!
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600-700
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Rise of Islam!
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700-800
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Rise of the Carolingians!
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800-900
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Feudalism!
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900-1000
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Anarchy and Ottonians!
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1000-1100
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Gregorian reform!
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1100-1200
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Crusades, universities, towns!
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1200-1300
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Gothic golden age!
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1300-1400
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Crisis in Europe!
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1400-1500
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Renaissance!
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590-640
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Sutton Hoo burials
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482
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Death of Childeric
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482-511
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Rule of Clovis
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622
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Hegira
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636
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Battle of the Golan Heights
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717-718
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Muslim siege of Constantinople
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751
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Pippin III, the last Carolingian mayor, becomes king
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550
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Death of St Benedict
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843
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Treaty of Verdun to split Charlemagne's empire
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871-899
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Rule of Alfred the Great
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919-936
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Rule of Henry I, first king of the Ottonian dynasty
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987-996
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Rule of Hugh Capet
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770-830
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Carolingian renaissance
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980-1020
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Ottonian renaissance
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955
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Battle of Lechfeld; Otto defeated the Magyars
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962
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Otto crowned by the Pope to revive the empire
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910
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Cluny founded
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1077
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the Canossa incident
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1122
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The end of the Investiture struggle
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976-1025
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the rule of Basil II Bulgar-Killer and the peak of Byzantine expansion
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869
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Death of Cyril
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1096
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Beginning of the Crusades
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1085
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Toledo retaken by El Cid
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1270
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Seventh Crusade (St Louis)
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1154-1189
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Rule of Henry II of England and beginning of the Angevin empire
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1199-1216
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Rule of John Lackland and end of Angevin empire
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1181-1226
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Life of St Francis
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1315-1317
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Great Famine
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1155-1227
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Life of Genghis Khan
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1346
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Caffa and the start of the bubonic plague in Europe
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1386
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Poland becomes largest country in Europe
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1571
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Lepanto
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1410
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Battle of Tannenberg; Poland crushes the Teutonic Knights
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1483-1546
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Life of Martin Luther
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1434
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Portuguese round Cape Bojador
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1500
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Brazil reached by the Portuguese
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