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17 Cards in this Set
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Charlemamagne
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King of the Franks and Emperor of Rome
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William the Conqueror
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Norman King who defeated Harold, the Anglo Saxon King to become first Norman king of England
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King John I
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King of England that signed the Magna Carta giving more rights to British nobles
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Benedict
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Italian monk founder of the Benedictine order
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Francis of Assisi
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Italian monk ...devoted his life to serving the poor and the sick..founded the Franciscan order
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Pope Urban II
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Called for the first crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims
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Lorenzo Medici
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Ruler of Florence during the Renaissance and patron of artists such as Michelangelo
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Petrarach
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Italian Renaissance poet and humanist
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Michelangelo
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Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and scientist
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Polish astronomer..discovered that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun
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Erasmus
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Dutch writer and humanist...favored reform of the Catholic Church and opposed the Protestant Reformatin
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Martin Luther
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German monk and leader of the Protestant reformation
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Johannes Gutenberg
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invented the printing press that first used movable type...German printer
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King Henry the VIII
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King of England and founder of the Church of England....broke with the Catholic Church because the Pope would not give him a divorce
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Queen Elizabeth I
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English Renaissance flourished under her reign
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William Shakespeare
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English dramatist and poet...consdered one of the greatest writers of the English language
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