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Hangzhou
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Capital of the southern song dynasty
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mamluk
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turkish slaves
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ulan bator
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capital of mongolia;mongol empire
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decolonization
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the process of gaining independance from a larger ruler (india from england)
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el mina
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slave fortress in africa where african kings sold slaves to the new world
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peyrepertuse
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cathar castle in france where the nazi ss believed the holy grail was located
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atahualpa
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god-king of the incas
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qi
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vital force, part of taiji tu, the great ultimate. this is in every object according to taoism
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Raich v. Gonzales
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case debating medicinal marijuana
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meiji
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period in japan after the tokugawa shogunate. lasted from 1603-1868
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timbuktu
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capt of mali, where the best madrasas (muslim teaching mosques) are located
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topkapi
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Palace built by Mehmed II next to the mosque aya sophya
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nisshohki
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"sun disk" on japanese flag
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Pelican Bay
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Super Max Prison located in california
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tenochtitlan
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capt of the aztec empire
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Machu Picchu
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incan ruins located 50 miles northwest of cuzco, in modern day peru
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Anaterasu-omi-kami
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sun goddess of shintoism
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quito
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capital of peru
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Imperial Edict of 845
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early song period, anti buddhist mandate that forced people to convert to confucianism.
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Baku
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Capital of azerbaijan
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quetzacoatl
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sovereign plumed serpent. meso american god
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Teotihuacan
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classical period meso american civilization, one of the largest at the time
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concordat of worms
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Emperor Henry V renounced his right to choose the pope and bishops, and left that to church officials
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Darfur
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Area in sudan where muslims are fighting christians
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Khartoum
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Capital of sudan
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Takster
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Village where the 14th dalai lama was selected
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Kafir
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one who does not believe in allah, and considered to be an infadel. non muslim
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Taiji Tu
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The Great Ultimate. central tenet of taoism
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Gansu
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chinese province
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dunhuang
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cave monastery built to protect warlords from buddhist rulers
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Guanyin
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one of the highest ranking boddhisattvas
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Avalokitesvara
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english word for guanyin
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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peacy treaty that ended the meso american war
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Operation Fortitude
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unconventional warfare to trick nazi germany, before D-Day
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Yerevan
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Capital of armenia
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neo-confucianism
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Song Cchinese ruling philosophy, spread to Joseon Korea
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Zen
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East asian concept of meditation, concentration, and orientation
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"bone ranks"
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Rank of officials in Silla korea. permanent.
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Panmunjom
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demilitarized zone / border of north and south korea
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Manzikert
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Battle fought between the Seljuk turks and the Byzantine Empire
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Huitzilopochtli
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Aztec Sun God
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tlatoc
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Aztec Storm God
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Talas
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Battle Between Tang China, and the Abbasid Caliphate
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Sabarau
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"to serve" root of the word samurai
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Bhumishparsha Mudra
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1000 hand earth witness Buddha
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treaty of verdun
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divided the frankish empire into three parts, one for eachof charlemagnes grandsons to rule
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Pontifex Maximus
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High Priest in the Holy Roman Empire
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Mercantilism
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Spanish conquistadors. waves of eurocentric imperialism, guided by the governments of europe, to get more gold, wealth, and territory
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Miscegination
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the process of racial or ethnic mixing
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Ulama
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Religious scholar at a madrasas
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Article 9
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Prevents Japan from having an army, and gives us the job of protecting them, if need be. in turn, the japanese provide the usa with electronic goods
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Ummayad
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2nd Caliphate established after the death of muhammad
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Sixth Pillar
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Greater Jihad(discussed in the quran) lesser jihad(terrorism)
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Hagia Sophia
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byzantine cathedral in constantinople, later converted to mosque in istanbul
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Medina
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location of the tomb of Muhmmad, at center of giant mosque.
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Fief
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Small european feudalistic kingdom
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onin war
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japanese civil war for control between the ashikaga shogunate and the daimy class of japan
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Gobukseong
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"turtle ship" used by joseon korea to defeat japanese forces
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Silla
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1st if the three Korean dynastys had a system called bone ranks for aristocrats. buddhist
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bulguksa
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budhist temle build by the koryo, and early joseon dynastys.
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battle of cajamarca
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inca vs conquistadors in 1532.
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takashima
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island in japan where the mongols landed, but failed to invade.
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Songhay
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west african dynasty in western sudan
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golden age of timbuktu
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an age of prosperity during which the madrasas were built. lead by mansa musa.
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St Thomas Aquinas
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influential priest, philosopher, theologian
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Joan of arc
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young peasant girl, who thought she was guided to do so by god, commanded the French army to a defeat over the british troops.
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Huo Yuanjia
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Fearless child who was hit in face
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Sultan Muhammad II
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founder of the ottoman empire
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Alexius Comnenus
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Byzantine emperor and comander of the first crusade
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Harun al-Rashid
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Leader of abbasid during golden age
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Pope Urban II
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Council of Clermont Called on Christians to stop the fighting one another and to go fight the muslims of the holy land
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Chandragupta
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Founder of the Mauryan Dynasty
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Chandra Gupta
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Founder of the Gupta Dynasty
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Hildebrand
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An Italian monk who was selected to be pope
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Pope Gregory VII
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Papal name of hildebrand
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Alaric
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King of the Visigoths
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Prince Vladimir
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Christian prince of kiev, who had the entire kievian rus baptized
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Mansa Musa
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Leader of timbuktu during the Golden Age
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Zhu Xi
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Lived from 1130-1200, was the most important early confucian thinker
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Yangban
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Traditional ruling calss of Korea
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Daimyo
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Ruling class of japan
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Ronin
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"masterless Samurai"
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Seljuks
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Turkish Muslims whos empire spread across the middle east
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Fransisco Pizzaro
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the incan empire in the mid 1500's
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Mahmoud Ahmadenijad
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terrorist dictator of iran
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Miyamoto Musashi
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possibly the greatest samurai of all time
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Po Zhuyi
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confucian poet
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Yang Guifei
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influential concubine
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Heinrich Himmler
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Leader of the Nazi SS
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Charlemagne
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King of the franks, and first ruler to gain the title of emperor since the fall of rome
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Louis the Pious
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Charlemagnes son
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A'isha
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muhammads 3rd wife
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Khadija
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Muhammads first and favorite wife
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Abu Bakr
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Mhammads right hand man, early convert to islam.
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tuareg
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group of nomads in sub-saharran africa
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Mehmet II
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Conquered Constantinople changed name to Istanbul and changed the cathedral hagia Sophia, to the mosque aya sophya
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Louis VII
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Elanor of Aquitane's husband during the second crusade
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Heraclius
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Byzantine ruler from 610-641
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Haile Sellasie
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Emperor of ethiopia from 1930-1974
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Xuanzang
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Chinnese buddhist monk, scholar, traveller. responsible for starting communications between china and india during the early tang
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The Cobra
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Vietnam's best sniper sent to kill America's best sniper. america kills cobra
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An Lushan
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Asian military General who led a revolt from 755-763
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uighurs
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turkic speaking people whos built a central asain empire which lasted from 600- 751
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Caliph Omar
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2nd Caliph. took over after the death of abu bakr
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Southern Mesopotamian Muslims
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shiites, who landed in iraq-iran, and are still there today.
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Fritigern
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Leader of the Goths
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Hosokawa
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one of the fighting sided in the onin war
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Sejong
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4th king of the joseon dynasty who invented hangul, the korean system of writing
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Yi Sun Shin
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Korean military general best noted for his tactics and his victories agianst japan wen they tried to invade korea
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Li Shimin
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2nd emperor of the tang dynasty
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Wu Zhao
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Woman who seized power of the tang and declared herself emperor in 690. claimed she was a boddhissatva
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Tankman
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Man who stood in front of a column of chinese tanks on june 5, 1989 to show displeasure
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Deng Xiaoping
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Leader of the chinese communist party
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Hernan Cortez
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the aztecs in 1521. la malinche or dona marina was translator to the conquistadors
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Moctezuma
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Aztec king who fought the conquistadors
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Frederick Barbarossa
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Holy roman emperor and leader of the third crusade
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Justinian
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Byzantine emperor from 527-his death
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Saladin
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leader of the muslim opposition to the crusaders
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Wari
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Rising military power in andes that led to the downfall of the moche
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Anna Comnena
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wife of alexius comnenus
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