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| 100 AD group; Roman emperor, extremely violent, blamed Christians for burning down Rome, insane |
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| 100 AD group; bishop of Smyrna, highly influential due to his righteousness and aggression towards heresies |
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| 100 AD group; Church father and Bishop of Antioch, martyred while under the reign of Roman emperor Trajan |
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| 100 AD group; Jewish historian, general who engaged against the Romans in the Jewish rebellion |
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| 100 AD group; discovered by a Bedouin shepherd boy in 1947 in the caves near the Dead Sea, scholars agree that the writings are those of the Old Testament scriptures written by the Essenes |
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| 100 AD group; Jewish military freedom fighter, led an army of 400,000 men in the Second Jewish Revolt |
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| 100 AD group; Jewish military freedom fighter, led an army of 400,000 men in the Second Jewish Revolt |
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| 300 AD group; period of India’s history beginning during the reign of the Gupta Dynasty, marked by its prosperity in arts, sciences, and religion |
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| 300 AD group; philosopher, church father, bishop of Hippo, high influential to the Christian world due to his writings |
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| 300 AD group; saint of Ireland, Christian missionary, kidnapped as a young man and escaped captors several years later |
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| 300 AD group; Church father and Latin scholar, produced Vulgate, the first Latin version of the Bible. |
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| 300 AD group; the eastern half of the later Roman Empire, Constantine I rebuilt Byzantium, its capital, which was later called Constantinople |
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| The Fall of the Western Roman Empire |
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| 400 AD group; Barbarian Invasions, severe moral decline, lack of communication, couldn’t defend itself |
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| 400 AD group; “Father of Western Monasticism”, author of Rule, wrote Rule for his monasteries |
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| 400 AD group; the first half of the Middle Ages, known as a period unproductive in the arts, it was followed by the High Middle Ages, a time of rebirth of culture |
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| 400 AD group; called the “Scourge of the Gods”, was the king of the Huns and one of the greatest barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire |
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| 400 AD group; legendary British hero, led the Britons to defeat the Saxon invaders at the Battle of Mount Badon |
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| 400 AD group; Byzantine emperor who reigned with his wife over the Eastern Empire, protecting it from the Persians, instituted major administrative changes, forming a civil law in most of Europe |
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| 400 AD group; Byzantine Empress who shared the throne of her husband, took an active part in decision making |
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| 500 AD group; considered the greatest pontiff, initiated friendly relations with the Lombard court at Pavia, arranged Gregorian chants |
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| 500 AD group; Arab prophet of Islam, saw visions of a messenger angel (Gabriel), wrote the Qur’an |
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| 600 AD group; Muslim shrine, used to “house Muslims from cold and heat”, not intended as a mosque |
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| 700 AD group; Vikings swept into Western Europe over the course of 300 years, terrorizing and pillaging towns |
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| 700 AD group; Caliph of Bagdad, noted for his involvement in the Muslim holy war leading the Eastern caliphate against the Byzantines |
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| 700 AD group; an Anglo-Saxon poem about historical Scandinavian events of the 6th century, tells of a hero, Beowulf, who kills Grendel and its mother, and slays a dragon as an old man |
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| 700 AD group; King of the Franks and the first emperor of Western Europe after the fall of Rome, known as “Charles the Great”, organized the beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire |
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| 800 AD group; a book containing the four Gospels in Latin, hand-copied by monks, it is known for its illuminations, wondrous arrays of pictures, interlaced shapes, and ornamental details |
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| 800 AD group; King of the West Saxons, first King of all the English peoples |
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| 800 AD group; King of the West Saxons and ruler of all England-controlled territories, strived to unify England into a kingdom while repulsing the Danes |
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| 900 AD group; Viking chieftain, invaded the Rouen and the Seine, settled down in the land of the Franks, now known as Normandy |
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| 900 AD group; moved from Scandinavia to Iceland, forced to move from Iceland to Greenland for murdering, wanted others to move to “Greenland” because it was “green and flourishing”, but it was harsh and cold |
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| 900 AD group; son of Eric the Red, left Greenland as adult and discovered Newfoundland |
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| 1000 AD group; known as “Edward the Confessor”, English king and last of the Anglo-Saxon line, founded Westminster Abbey |
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