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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Urban II | The Pope who called the First Crusade |
| Godfrey of Bouillon | French leader of the First Crusade |
| Richard I, Lionheart | King of England and leader of the Third Crusade |
| Saladin | the Turkish Sultan of Egypt and Syria who reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians |
| Bernard of Clairvaux | Wrote a letter to the knights in Jerusalem, telling them why what they were doing was just |
| El Cid | The Castilian Hero Of Legendary exploits who took Valencia and gave it to the Castilian crown |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | Daughter of the Troubadour Duke William of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England, mother of Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland |
| Thomas Becket | Henry II’s chancellor, whom the king appointed to be Archbishop of Canterbury; martyred before his altar in the Cathedral of Canterbury |
| John Lackland | England, forced to sign the Magna Carta |
| William the Conqueror | Duke of Normandy and King of England who defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and made England a Norman Realm |
| Abbot Suger | Abbot of Saint Denis, advisor to the French kings, reformer of church and state |
| St Bernard | Cistercian monk who was the most influential man in 12th century Europe |
| Louis the 9th | the French King who brought order to the French realm and gave it a law court system that survived for centuries |
| Innocent III | Most influential pope of the Middle Ages |
| Francis of Assisi | founder of the Friars minor |
| Saint Dominic | founder of the order of preachers Dominican |
| Bonaventure | Franciscan Superior General; theologian |
| St Thomas Aquinas | Dominican fryer; Theologian and author of The Summa theologica |
| Otto the 1st | first Roman Emperor of the Germans. |
| Sylvester the 2nd | Gerbert of Aurillac; pope ,scholar, reformer |
| Gregory the 7th | Hildebrand, pope and reformer |
| Henry the 4th | the German Roman emperor who fought Gregory the 7th over the right of investiture |
| Louis I, the Pious | Charlemagne's only surviving son, who divided the Frankish Empire between his four sons, thus causing civil war between himself and his sons |
| St Bede the Venerable | Monk of the Abbey of Jarrow in Northern England, author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
| Tarik | Arabic muslim, conqueror of Iberia |
| Charles Martel | “Charles the hammer”, mayor of the palace, Victor at Tours |
| Charlemagne | Charles the great, some of Pepin the short, king of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans |
| Alcuin | English Monk and scholar, Charlemagne's supervisor of schools and teacher at the Royal Court |
| Heraclius | The Byzantine emperor who defeated the Persians and lost to the Arabs, nicknamed the new Scipio |
| Muhammad | Told by an Angel of Allah, fled to Medina marking year of Islam (622) Founder and prophet of the Islamic religion, wrote the Koran |
| Abu Bakr | Muhammad's father in law and the first Caliph |
| Omar | second Caliph whose armies conquered Mesopotamia, Persia, and Egypt, not a bad ruler |
| Othman | 3rd caliph, founder of the Umayyad dynasty of caliphs |
| Ali | Fourth caliph, Muhammad's son-in-law |
| Justinian | Emperor who tried to make a Roman Catholic Empire, built the Hagia Sophia, made law code that would last through the Middle Ages called the Codex Justinius |
| Belisarius | Brilliant general of Justinian, conqueror of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths |
| Boethius | Statesman, philosopher, author of textbooks on ancient learning |
| St Benedict of Nursia | Founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule of St Benedict, founded Monte Cassino |
| St Gregory the Great | pope, rebuilder of Italy after the devastation of the Gothic Wars |
| Arius | Heretical Theologian who taught that the Son of God is not equal to the father |
| Saint Athanasius | Archbishop of Alexandria; champion of the trinitarian doctrine of the Council of Nicaea |
| St Jerome | Translator of the Vulgate Latin Bible |
| St Ambrose | Archbishop of Milan; great preacher and collector of hymns, wrote to theodosius and convinced him to do penance for the murder at Thessalonica |
| St Augustine of Hippo | Rich pagan convert, great theologian of the church, given the title “Doctor of Grace” |
| Alaric the Visigoth | King of the Visigoths; sacked Rome in 410 ad |
| Attila the Hun | King of the Huns, convinced by Pope Leo to not sack the city of Rome in 452 ad |
| Leo the Great | Convinced Attila the Hun to not sack Rome, persuaded the king of the Vandals to spare the lives of the Roman citizens but the vandals did take all of the loot |
| Irenaeus | Early Christian father and one of the greatest theologians and Defenders of the faith in the early church |
| Justin Martyr | Theologian, martyr, and the first Christian philosopher |
| Tertullian | Theologian and defender of the faith who rejected philosophy as a means of understanding the Christian faith |
| Origen | Early Christian who tried to explain divine revelation in terms of Greek philosophy. His works explain the connection between Christian faith and pagan thought. |
| Diocletian | Roman Emperor who ordered the last persecution of Christians, divided the empire into East and West. |
| Constantine | First Christian Roman emperor, issued the Edict of Milan with the Eastern emperor Licinius |
| Augustus Caesar | Nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, given the title Emperor by the senate in 29 bc. He established the Principate, the imperial system of government |
| Tiberius Caesar | Born to Augustus's wife, Livia, and her previous husband. Tiberius was emperor when Jesus was crucified, left much of the command up to the governors of their provinces |
| Nero | Adopted by the emperor Claudius, first Roman Emperor to order a persecution of the Christians. He was tutored by Seneca, blamed the fire of 64 ad on Christians, and committed suicide after widespread revolt |
| Trajan | Spanish origin, given title Optimus, good relationship with the senate, died in Babylon during widespread Jewish revolts |
| Hadrian | Law reformer, patron of architecture and the arts, improved slave conditions, forbade Jews to practice religion, defended and improved defenses of empire, rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman colony |
| Marcus Aurelius | Raised as a soldier, remembered for stoic philosophy and the movie Gladiator |
| Diocletian | Split the Roman Empire in 2 and took the east |
| Gamaliel | Great teacher of the pharisees, taught Saul |
| Paul | Saul the Pharisee, who persecuted Christians but was converted after receiving a vision of christ. Paul spread the gospel throughout the Mediterranean basin. |
| Nero | Emperor when Rome burned who blamed Christians and had Paul and Peter executed |
| Seneca | Tutor to Nero, Cousin of Gallio (the judge of Paul) |
| Dante Alighieri | Italian poet and author of The Divine Comedy |
| Clement the fifth | The pope who removed the papal court to Avignon |
| John Wycliffe | English Theologian who promoted heretical ideas and translated the Bible into English |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales |
| Orkam | Osman’s son, the sultan who brought the ottoman armies into Europe |
| St Joan of Arc | French heroine and Warrior who fought to drive the English from France and bring the young king of France to his throne; executed as a sorcerer and heretic |
| Edward III | King of England; he started the 100 Years War |
| Henry Tudor | King of England; he won the Battle of Bosworth field and started the Tudor line of monarchs as King Henry the 8th |
| Louis the 11th | French King called the ‘Spider King’ for the coming and often unscrupulous ways he sought to strengthen his power |
| Saint Charles Bouromeo | Nephew of Pope Pius 4 and the reforming Archbishop of Milan |
| Charles the 5th | The king of Spain and Emperor of Germany |
| Saint Ignatius of Loyola | Founder of the Jesuits |
| Henry the 8th | King of England, who declared himself head of the church in England |
| Don Juan of Austria | son of King Philip II of Spain and commander of the fleet at Lepanto |
| Elizabeth the 1st | daughter of Henry the 8th and the English Queen who protestantized the Church of England |
| Cardinal Richelieu | prime minister of France whose policies crushed the power of the Huguenots in France and brought about the victory of France over the Habsburgs in the 30 Years War |
| Gustavus Adolphus | King of Sweden who invaded Germany on the side of the Protestant princes during the 30 Years War |
| Nicholas Copernicus | astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory with the Sun as the center of the universe |
| Charles I | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; executed in the English Revolution |
| Oliver Cromwell | leader of the Parliamentary Army who became Lord Protector of England after the execution of Charles I |
| William and Mary | king and queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland; appointed by Parliament after the Glorious Revolution |
| George I | Elector of Hanover who became king of Great Britain; founder of the Hanoverian line of British Kings |
| Louis XIV | the ‘Sun King of France’; he made France the most powerful state in Europe |
| Philip of Anjou | grandson of Louis XIV who, as Philip V, became the first Bourbon king of Spain |
| Bartolomé de Las Casas | Spanish bishop of Chiapas, who opposed the encomienda system |
| Cortes | Spanish conqueror of Mexico. He killed all the Aztecs |
| Montezuma II | the Aztec ruler of Mexico who welcomed Cortes to Tenochtitlan |
| Atahualpa | the Inca who was killed by Pizarro and his brothers |
| Michelangelo | Florentine artist and inventor, painter of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper |
| Mahomet the 2nd | Ottoman Turkish sultan and conqueror of Constantinople |
| Gutenberg | Inventor of movable type printing |
| John Capistrano | Leader of the resistance at the siege of Belgrade |
| Petrarch | Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist, often called the "Father of Humanism" |
| Machiavelli | Italian political philosopher and diplomat best known for The Prince, a treatise that advocates pragmatic, sometimes ruthless strategies for maintaining political power. |
| Martin Luther | German Protestant reformer; began the Protestant Reformation |
| Charles V | The king of Spain and Emperor of Germany |
| John Calvin | French Protestant reformer; author of The Institutes of the Christian Religion |
| Henry the 8th | King of England, who declared himself head of the church in England |
| Catherine of Aragon | Henry the 8th’s first wife, daughter of Isabel of Castile and Fernando of Aragon |
| Thomas More | author of Utopia, executed because he did not give up his faith |
| Adam Smith | author of the Wealth of Nations, in which he argued that governments should not try to control economic activity by regulating wages or prices or by any restriction |
| Nicholas Copernicus | a Polish clergyman who theorized about a heliocentric universe |
| Johannes Kepler | a German astronomer who accepted Copernicus's Theory and discovered that the planets moved in elliptical paths across the Sun |
| Galileo Galilei | born in florence, studied mathematics, astronomy, and physics; he is known for inventing the telescope; tried and found guilty by the Holy Office for promoting Copernicus's Theory |
| Kevin Bacon | Chancellor of England who tried to bring about a “great restoration” of philosophy, method of scientific inquiry is now known as the scientific method |
| Sir Isaac Newton | English scientist and author of the Principia Mathematica, guy who did the physics stuff |
| Descartes | a Frenchman whose passion for philosophy and mathematics inspired him to look at philosophy in a mathematical way, he wrote Discourse on Method |
| Thomas Hobbes | an Englishmen and author of The Leviathan, claims that humans operate like a machine without a soul or free will |
| John Locke | an Englishman and author of Two Treatises on Government, argues that man has three natural rights- life liberty and property |
| Voltaire | Poet who mocked Catholic church, wanted greater freedom and tolerance of different religions in society and favored the English government over the French system |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | musician who wrote Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Human Inequality, where he praised small family-based societies |
| Robespierre | he promoted equality and republicanism but also used extreme measures, including mass executions, to suppress opposition. He was eventually arrested and executed in 1794, marking the end of the Reign of Terror. |
| Marie Antoinette | Shallow wife of Louis the 16th, executed in 1793 |
| Marat | Radical journalist calling for mass executions, assassinated by Charlotte Corday |
| Charles Corday | murdered the Jacobin leader Marat |
| Louis the 16th | inability to rule caused the revolution, tried to flee but was tried and executed by the revolutionaries for treason |
| Napoleon | brilliant military leader who rose to power during the French Revolution and became Emperor of France. He expanded the French Empire across Europe but was eventually defeated and exiled after a series of wars. |
| Pope Pius the 7th | head of the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Napoleon. He crowned Napoleon emperor in 1804 but later opposed his actions, leading to his imprisonment and eventual release after Napoleon’s defeat. |
| Horatio Nelson | British naval commander known for his victories against Napoleon's forces. His most famous win was at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, where he secured British naval dominance but was killed in action. |
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