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World History 2013/2
Block 1 Freshman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours | Charles Martel |
| Most of Western Europe was conquered by this Frankish king | Charlemagne |
| The Israelites were led out of Egypt by | Moses |
| France reached its greatest power under the leadership of | Louis XIV |
| Wrote the Prince, "the end justifies the means" | Machiavelli |
| He said God was all powerful and all knowing, believed in predestination | John Calvin |
| Was "Lord Protector" of England | Oliver Cromwell |
| Led revolts that unified Sicily and southern Italy | Garibaldi |
| The "father" of the Israelites who led them to Canaan was | Abraham |
| Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth | Tudors |
| Henry the VIII claimed that he was never legally entitled to marry her, demanded a devorice | Catherine of Aragon |
| She was Henry's daughter and tried to return to England to Catholicism after his death | Mary |
| Henry's daughter, she made England a protestant nation permanently | Elizabeth |
| Born to a wealthy family, this tribune worked for land reform before being murdered in a riot | Tiberius Gracchus |
| The founder of the City of Rome. Nursed by a wolf. | Romulus |
| The Pax Romana ended with the death of this philospher-emperor who saw the empire reach ist greatest prosperity during his reign | Marcus Aurelius |
| "Little Boots", this madman was raised among the soldiers who later made him emporer and then when they discovered how mad he was, soldiers assassinated him | Caligula |
| He believed himself to be a great athlete and musican, killed his mother and sister, and was sentenced to death by the Senate | Nero |
| Pharaoh who ruled for years and built many monuments to himself | Ramses II |
| He was a Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy | Hannibal |
| This Roman general defeated Carthage | Scipio |
| This general became the first dictator for life after using his army to take over Rome | Sulla |
| Also a friend of Julius Caesar, he first hunted down the assassins, joined the Second Triumvirate then married Cleopatra and lost in an attempt to take over Rome | Marc Anthony |
| The Persian Prophet | Zoroaster |
| Started a school for navigators and sailors | Prince Henry of Portugal |
| Searched for 7 cities of gold | Coronado |
| Claimed Land in America for England | John Cabot |
| Was a sea dog who explored for England | Sir Frances Drake |
| Explored the St Lawrence River for France | King Charles I |
| Was responsible for unifying Germany into one country | Otto Von Bismark |
| Explored the Mississippi River for France | Robert De La Salle |
| Held great political power in France | Cardinal Richelieu |
| Made the mistake of invading Russia in the winter | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| He developed a written, but very strict code of laws for Athens | Draco |
| The laws of the area around Sumer were written down and distributed by | Hammurabi |
| The Athenian leader who was elected as general years and who rebuilt the city | Pericles |
| Teacher in Athens who taught his students to question all things, sentenced to death | Socrates |
| This philosopher and student of Plato studied science by observing, classifying, and then making generalizations and also wrote over books | Aristotle |
| Father of Medicine, he believed that diseases had natural causes and that the body could heal itself | Hippocrates |
| The English King was orginally a landowner in France because he came from France | William the Conqueror |
| The dictator in Italy during World War II was | Mussolini |
| The leader of the Soviet Union during World War II | Stalin |
| The jury system and common law was established in England by | Henry II |
| Henry II clashed with this religious leader | Beckett |
| The English King who spent most of his reign as a crusader was | Richard I |
| The unpopular English king who was forced to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede was | John |
| He opened the Academy, emphasized logical thought wrote first book on Political science and believed only the upper class should rule | Plato |
| The British prime Minister who met with Hitler and proclaimed "peace in our time" | Chamberlain |
| The Russian Revolution resulted in the death of the entire family of | Nicholas I |
| The leading American General in World War I | John J Pershing |
| Prime minister of Great Britain | Winston Churchill |
| America was named for him | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Because of his vision he had his men paint a cross on their shields before a battle, he was the first emporer to become a Christian | Constantine |
| Dominican friar who burned books and art in Florence | Savanaola |
| He built fortifications along borders of Rome, including a wall across Britain | Hadrian |
| He conquered the Aztecs | Cortex |
| He conquered the Incas | Pizarro |
| He explored the Southeastern US, including NC | DeSoto |
| He searched for the Fountain of Youth | Ponce de leon |
| He was first to sail around the world | Magellan |
| He was first to see the Pacific Ocean | Balboa |
| His mother killed off the competition so he could become emporer, spent much of his reign on Capri | Tiberius |
| She was the beheaded French Queen | Marie Antionette |
| Title means "majestic one", named tribune, consul and commander in chie for life | Augustus |
| Used his stutter and physical deformity to makde others think him a fool, actually a scholar | Claudius |
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