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58 Cards in this Set
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Hammurabi
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Babylonian king who wrote a set of laws for the citizens of Babylon in Mesopotamia. |
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Abraham
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A prophet who had to share Christianity around Islam. |
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Moses
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Led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the Holy Land that God had promised them. |
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Zoroaster
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His teachings became the foundation of a religious movement named Zoroastrianism. |
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Founder of Buddhism; Also known as Buddha.
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Asoka
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The third ruler of the Mauryn Empire; Became model of kingship in the Buddhism tradition. |
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Qin Shi Huangdi
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He built the first feudal and centralized empire in Chinese history in 221 BC. That was called the Qin Dynasty. |
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Draco & Solon
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Solon's contribution to the good function of Athens was his new code of laws. The first written code at Athens, that of Draco. |
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Pericles
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Promoted the arts, literature, and philosophy and gave free reign to some of the most inspired writers and thinkers of his time. |
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Aeschylus &Sophocles
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Aeschylus wrote almost 90 plays but only seven survived: "Agamemnon", "The Libation Bearers", "The Eumenides", "The Persians", "Seven Against Thebes","The Suppliants" and "Promethus Bound." Sophocles was an important influence on the development of the drama, most importantly by adding a third actor. |
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Homer
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His most important contribution to Greek culture was to provide a common set of valus that enshrined the Greeks' own ideas about themselves. |
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Virgil
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Regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended the rule of Augustus began. |
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Herodotus & Thucydides
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Herodotus was the first historian to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy t a certain extent, and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. Thucydides is known for his book The History of the Peloponnesian War which details the war between Sparta and Athens in the 5th Century. |
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Phidias |
He was best known for two gigantic chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statues, one of Athena for the Parthenon and the other of Zeus for the temple at Olympia.
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Archimedes
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The most-famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece.
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Hippocrates
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He was the first to release medicine from any kind of religious superstition and to establish it as a science based on observation and case recording. |
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Euclid & Pythagoras
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Euclid's most famous work is his collection of 13 books, dealing with geometry, called The Elements. Pythagoras founded the Pythagorean Theorym.
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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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Socrates was a Greek philosopher and is considered the father of western philosophy. Plato is known for his Dialogues and for founding his Academy north of Athens. Aristotle was one of the most important western philosophers, a student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great, and tremendously influential in the Middle Ages. |
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Charles V
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He was the most powerful monarch in Europe.
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Alexander the Great
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He became king upon his father's death in 336 BCE and went on to conquer most of the known world of his day.
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Hannibal
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One of the greatest military leaders in history. His most famous campaign took place during the Second Punic War (218-202), when he caught the Romans off guard by crossing the Alps.
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Julius Caesar
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He conquered Gual; Was assassinated for becoming too powerful
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Marc Antony
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He gave the funeral oration after Caesar's assassination which turned the tide of popular opinion against the assassins.
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Octavian
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Octavian (Augustus) led Rome's transformation from republic to empire during the tumultuous years following the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father Julius Caesar.
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Jesus of Nazareth
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He rebelled against governments due to his beliefs and it caused religions to be made. |
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Paul
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He travelled tens of thousands of miles around the Mediterranean spreading the word of Jesus. |
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Constantine
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He made Christianity a lawful religion in Roman society, and he founded the city of Constantinople. |
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Justinian
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He wrote a set of laws which were important as they simplified and streamlined centuries of existing Roman laws and Justinian's own laws and into one system. |
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Saint Cyril
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Wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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Mansa Musa
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He is known mostly for his fabulous pilgrimage to Mecca and for his promotion of unity and prosperity within Mali.
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Muhammad
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Recited the Quran to preach the truth God had revealed to him.
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Charlemagne
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He expanded the Roman Empire.
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William the Conqueror
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He established feudalism in Europe.
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Henry II
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Controlled more of France than anyone else had since Charlemagne.
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King John
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Forced to sign the Magna Carta, a document that limits the king's power.
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Hugh Capet
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He inherited vast estates in the regions of Paris and Orleans. He became one of the most powerful to the Carolingian king, Lothar.
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Joan of Arc
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She led the French army to victory over the English at Orleans.
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Ferdinand & Isabella
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They unified Spain by marriage and conquest.
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Philip II
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He was the most powerful man of his time. He had under his control an empire where there were no sunset.
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Ptolemy
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An ancient astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who considered the Earth the center of the universe (the "Ptolemaic system").
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Ivan the Great
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Best known for liberating Russia from the Mongol Tatars.
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Pope Urban II
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Best known for initiating the First Crusade (1096–99) and setting up the modern-day Roman Curia in the manner of a royal ecclesiastical court to help run the Church. |
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Saladin
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Muslim military and political leader who led Islamic forces during the Crusades.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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A fifteenth century writer who is most famous for his work "The Prince" in which he wrote about politics and power.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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He was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance man.”
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Michelangelo
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He was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect of the Renaissance period who contributed a great deal to art, particularly his David and Pietà sculptures, as well as the Sistine Chapel ceiling painting.
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Petrarch
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An Italian poet who is best known for the Iyric poetry of his Canzoniere. |
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Johannes Gutenberg
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A German blacksmith known for inventing the mechanical movable type printing press.
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Erasmus
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Was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature. |
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Sir Thomas More
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He believed that areas of the Catholic Church did deserve to be reformed and modernized.
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Ali
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He retired from public life and dedicated himself to studying and teaching the Quran.
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Aryans
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Older men from Iran that introduced Indian tribes to some Vedic religions.
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Mongols
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A nomadic people from the steppes of Central Asia. Known as fierce horsemen and warriors.
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Vikings
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They were masters of Trade and Seafaring. They invaded, conquered, and pillaged.
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Anglo-Saxons
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People who have inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century. They comprise people from Germanic tribes who migrated to the island.
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Franks
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Dominating present-day northern France, Belgium, and western Germany, the Franks established the most powerful Christian kingdom of early medieval western Europe. |
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Huns
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A nomadic people who left the steppes of Central Asia, traveled to Europe and threatened what was left of Rome's empire.
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Magyars
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A hungarian trib, the Magyars, were defeated near Augsburg by the German Emperor Otto, and thus ending their raiding campaigns.
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