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period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus
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Pax Romana
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famous Greek philosopher
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Socrates
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Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India
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Vasco da Gama
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Middle ages ended and the pre-modern period began
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Renaissance
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Father of printing in the Western World
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Johannes Gutenburg
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written document that granted privileges and freedoms to city residents
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charter
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Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in
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venacular language
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When Columbus landed in the Americas, he thought he had sailed to........
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India
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Jesus was born in what region of the world?
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Palestine
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Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under...
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Constantine I
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workers' organizations that controlled industries were called...
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guilds
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mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by...
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Michelangelo Buonarotti
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Alexander the Great conquered and spread the culture of.....
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Greece
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a castle was often part of a
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manor
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a philosopher who believed that government whould serve and protect the people and their freedom was....
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John Locke
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Julius was killed by...
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supporters of the Roman Senate
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the idea that kings and Queens ruled by the will of God was called the
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divine right of kings
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the invention of the stirrup by the Huns allowed them to
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use their weapons while riding horses
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during World WAr II the Axis Powers were...
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Germany, Italy and Japan
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machines designed for war were mass-produced for the first time for
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world war I
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Which country was a member of the Non-aligned community?
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Yugoslavia
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what was the name for the new openness introduced in the Soviuet Union in the 1980's?
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glasnost
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groups formed to bargin with factory owners for better working conditions and higher pay for workers are called....
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unions
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THE INDUSTRIAL REvolution made consumer goods, like clothing....
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less expensive and more plentiful
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a main goal of the Marshall plan was to.....
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help rebuild Europe aber WWII
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the leader responsible for the Holocaust was.....
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Adolf Hitler
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World War II came to an end when...
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the US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan
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Sputnik I was the first....
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spacecraft to orbit the earth; it was russian
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The Truman Doctrine was a plan to....
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support countries fighting communism
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The euro is the currency of...
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the European Union
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Before the US joined WWII, the Allies were Britain, France and...
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China
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to...
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walk on the moon
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Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg joined together to form....
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Benelux trade union
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the Berlin Airlift was done to...
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defeat the Soviet blockade of West Berlin
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Which country was once split into communist and democratic parts but is now reunited?
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Germany
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What was the World War II alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan called?
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Axis powers
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The first major industry to emerge during the Industrial REvolution was
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textiles (clothing)
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capital of the roman empire during the empire's decline
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Constantinople
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city-state
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polis
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distribution of people, ideas and diseases around the world by European explorers and settlers
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Columbian Exchange
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workers' organization
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guild
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representative body that took power in England in the name of the people
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Parliament
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at one time ruled lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
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Rome
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Christian holy War
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Crusade
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change
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reform
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