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| The advent of agriculture that took place in which era of early human history? |
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| Mesopotamia is situated between which two rivers? |
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| Around 3500 BC, the first civilization was establish in which region of Mesopotamia? |
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| Who was the famous king and law-codifer who ruled during the Old Babylonian Empire? |
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| Egyptian societies developed along the shores of which river? |
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| In the 11th century BCE, the Isrealites transformed their political system from a confederation of loosely organized tribes into which type of gov? |
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| Minoan civilization developed on which island? |
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| Greek civilization developed primarily around the shores of which sea? |
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| Starting in 776 BCE, athletes from across Greece met where to compete in contests to honor Zeus? |
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| Whose death brought an end to the rule of tyrants in Corinth in 586 BCE? |
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| Which victory over the Persians in 490 BCE established a sense of military and cultral superiority amound the Greeks towards all whom they considered to be "barbarians"? |
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| At which battle in 480 BCE did the Greeks lure Xerxes' army into a narrow pass adjacent to the Euboean strait and, after Spartan leader Leonides sent most of the Greek forces home before the battle because he feared they faced certain death, a small group of Sparatans confronted a much larger Persian force? |
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| What was the name of the alliance system that Athens came to dominate in the aftermath of defeat of the Persians under Xerxes? |
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| Whose history of the Greek wars with Persia earned him the designation "father of history"? |
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| The Peloponnesian War was fought mainly between which two city-states (and their allies)? |
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| After he defeated the Persians, Alexander the Great's conquests took him as far east as what modern nation? |
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| Who was Plato's most important teacher? |
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| What Cathaginian commander led his army, including elephants, across the Alps into Italy? |
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| Julius Caesar began a civil war when he led his army across which river in Northern Italy? |
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| The second Triumvirate seized power in Rome after the assassination of which leader? |
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| In the civil war that broke out among members of the second triumvirate, who formed an alliance with Cleopatra, the Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt? |
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| Augustus (formerly Octavian) |
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| The Pax Romana, an extended period of relative prosperity, began during the reign on which emperor? |
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| Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, or Nero |
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| What were the names of 2 of the next 4 leaders to succeed the emperor whose reign began the Pax Romana? |
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| Which Roman Emperor began the "Great Persecution" of Christians in the year 303? |
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| Who was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity? |
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| Which barbarian group had its origins east of the Rhine River but then migrated through the Iberian Peninsula, across N Africa, and eventually into Italy, sacking Rome in 455? |
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| Which Byzantine emperor undertook a massive compilation of Roman legal codes? |
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| Which event solidified the short-lived alliance of Byzantine and w European rules for the purposes of seizing Jerusalem from Muslim control? |
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| Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara (Aegean Sea?) |
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| The Byzantine Empire avoided conquest by barbarians largely because of the strategic location of Constantinople between which two seas? |
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| Mecca is in the western edge of Arabia, near which major body of water? |
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| In 610 CE, Muhammad began to have visions of a divine nature that were subsequently recorded in which book? |
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| The Hijra was Muhammed's journey from Mecca to which other Arabian city? |
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| In 732, which Frankish king led the successful effort to stop the Muslim advance into northwestern Europe at the battle near Tours? |
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| Pope Leo III gave the emperor's crown to which rules of Christmas Day in 800? |
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| Count Odo (France), Louis the Blind (Burgundy) ? |
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| Who were the leaders of 2 of the 3 kingdoms that emerged from the division of the Carolingian Empire in the year 843? |
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| When did the Bubonic plague, aka the "Black Death" arrive in W Europe? |
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| What 2 countries fought each other in the Hundred Years' War? |
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| Aristocrats in which country fought each other in the War of the Roses? |
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| What were 2 W European cities that had pop. > 50,000 in 1500? |
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| In 1494, the king of what country invaded Italy? |
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| Which Spanish explorer and military commander led the effort to conquer the Aztecs? |
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| Who led an expedition that eventually was the first to sail around the world? |
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| Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV |
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| The Investiture Controversy primarily involved which pope and which monarch? |
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| Which European explorer first reached the New World in 1492? |
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| Which English monarch was put on trial, and later executed, as a result of losing the English Civil War? |
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| Battle of the White Mountain |
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| The forces loyal to Emperor Ferdinand won a major victory in which 1602 battle? |
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| Which Swedish monarch invaded Germany in 1630? |
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| Which theologian sparked controversy with his Ninety-five Theses in 1517? |
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| Which English monarch was given the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521? |
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| Who published his Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536? |
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| Which English monarch restored Catholicism in England in 1553? |
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| Prince Henry the Navigator |
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| Which Portuguese prince led Portuguese efforts to expand their naval power in the 15th century? |
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