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The month of July is named after him and he instituted the Julian Calendar
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Julius Caesar
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Roman patriarch who established himself as universal leader of Christianity during the 5th century A.D.
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Innocent I
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Aristotle, King Philip, and Alexander the Great were all from this region north of the Greek peninsula
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Macedonia
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Germanic tribe whose name means "East Goths"
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Ostrogoths
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Famous teuton who became a Christian and made Paris the capital of France
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Clovis
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Frankish Mayor of the Palace who defeated the Moslems at Tours
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Charles Martel
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Adopted son of Julius Caesar and ruler of Rome
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Octavian or Augustus
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Great church constructed in Constantinople in the 6th century A.D.
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Hagia Sophia
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This slave organized a revlot against Rome in 73BC
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Spartacus
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Wild Viking warriors who wore nothing by animal skins
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berserkrs
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He nearly captured Rome by going over the Alps and up into Italy on elephant
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Hannibal
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Important god of several Germanic tribes.
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Wotan
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The empire that eventually stretchedfrom Asia Minor (Turkey) to Babylon (Iraq)
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Persia
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Son of Pepin the Short; he was a great Carolingian king
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Charlemagne
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Rome is located along the banks of this river
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Tiber
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Churchmen who separated themselves from the secular world
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Monks
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Julius Caesar marched against orders across this river
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Rubicon
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Christian church established in Egypt around A.D. 450
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Coptic
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Rome is located in what present day country
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Italy
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The great Carolingian rulers were a grandfather, son and grandson
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Charles Martel, Pepin the Short and Charlemagne
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Messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens without stopping to warn the Athenians of the invasions of the Persians
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Pheidippides
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Style of writing using lowercase letters
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Carolingian minuscule
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The southern area of Greece
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Peloponnesus
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Emperor in Constantinople from A.D. 527-565
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Justinian
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She ruled Egypt along with her brother and was descended from on of Alexander the Great's generals
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Cleopatra
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Frankish ruler who was of the Merovingian dynasty
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Clovis I
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Nickname for Rome
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Eternal City
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Region of northern France settled by Vikings
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Normandy
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He wrote the Aneid during the reign of Agustus
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Virgil
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Name given the eastern half of the Old Roman Empire
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Byzantine Empire
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This emperor ended persecution of the Christians and made Christianity the official religion in the Roman Empire
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Constantine
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German military commander sho deposed the last Roman emperor in A.D. 476
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Odovacar
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Warlike peoples living outside the Roman Empire
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barbarians
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Irish monk who popularized the use of A.D.
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Venerable Bede
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The Roman Lake
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Mediterranean Sea
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Dragon ships of the Vikings
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drakken
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Assian and former friend of Julius Caesar
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Brutus
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Word derived from two Latin words meaning "middle ages"
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Medieval
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The Romans believed these two twin brothers founded the city of Rome
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Romulus and Remus
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Germanic tribe whose name means "West Goths"
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Visigoths
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Built a wall across northern England
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Hadrian
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Animal skin used to make books
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Vellum
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Gaul
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Present day France
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Peace which divided up the Empire of Charlemagne
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Treaty of Verdun
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Centurian
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leader over 100 men in Roman army
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Church leader who established a monastic order
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Benedict
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Wondered all year. They pulled their houses around on carts
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Monguls
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Promise of service made by a vasal knight to his lord
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fealty oath
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The last king of Rome, driven out in 509BC
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Tarquin
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Christians who did not believe in the use of images in worship
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Iconoclasts
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Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned
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Nero
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He became a religious leader in China around 500BC
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Confucius
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Rome fought three Punic Wars against this north Africian city
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Carthridge
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The Peloponnesain war was fought between
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Sparta and Athens
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Legendary founder of the Roman race, carried his father out of Troy
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Aeneas
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He was the son of the King of Troy
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Paris
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Means love of wisdon
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Philosphy
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Perhaps the most famous Greek philospher; he died of hemlock
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Socrates
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Gautama Budda lived in this country around 536 BC
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India
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Student of Socrates who started the Academy that lasted 900 years
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Plato
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Greek philospher who developed the beginnings of the scientific method
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Aristotle
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Chinese civilization began on this river
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Yellow
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Manelaus
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King of Greece
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Conquered all of the known world except for India
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Alexander the Great
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Hippocratic
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Famous Greek Doctor
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Teacher's use the "Socratic method" when they
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ask questions
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The Trojan War was the war between
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Greece and Troy
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Belief in many gods
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Polytheistic
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Greek mathematician and inventor. He was able to measuere the weight of gold by displacement
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Archimedes
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The noble families of Rome were called the
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Patricians
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Gave each person in Athens a vote around 500BC
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Clisthenes
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These Romans joined Julius Caesar in the First Triumverate in 60 BC
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Crassus and Pompey
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Leader of Athens during the "Golden Age"
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Pericles
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Early Romans lived in city-states and were ruled by
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Kings
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In the Roman Republic two _________-ruled in place of the King
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consuls
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After the kings that ruled early Rome were overthrown, Rome became a
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Republic
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The Greeks believed the gods lived atop this mountain
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Mount Olympus
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A polis is a
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City-state
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The story of the Trojan War was told in two stories
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Illid and the Odyssey
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Was a tyrant sho took control of Athens; banished twice but regained power both times. Had the poems of Homer written down
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Pisistratus
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Great Greek philoshper who tutored Alexander the Great
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Aristotle
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The people invented the alphabet that we currently use
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Phoenicians
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The first Christian Martyr
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Steven
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Brahmanism teaches
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reincarnation
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