Classical Conversations – Cycle 2 – Flashcards
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Cycle 2 - Week 1- History Sentence- Tell me about Charlemagne.
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In 800 AD, during the medieval period, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor of Europe.
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Cycle 2 - Week 2 - History Sentence- Tell me about William the Conqueror.
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After the church split into Roman Catholic and eastern Orthodox, William the Conqueror defeated King Harold of England in 1066 and started feudalism.
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Cycle 2 - Week 3 - History Sentence- Tell me about the Crusades.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son, Richard the Lion-hearted fought the Turks for Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades, which occurred from 1095 to 1291.
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Cycle 2 - Week 4 - History Sentence- Tell me about the Magna Carta.
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English King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215, limiting the king's power. Later, England's King Edward III claimed to be king of France and began the Hundred Years' War in 1337.
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Cycle 2 - Week 5 - Tell me about the Hundred Years' War
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During the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc and King Charles VII led the French to defeat England at the Battle of Orleans. In the late 1340s. fleas on rats carried the Plague, which killed one out of three Europeans.
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Cycle 2 - Week 6 - Tell me about the Renaissance.
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During the Renaissance period, from 1350 to 1600, da Vinci was a famous inventor, Shakespeare was a famous playwright, Michelangelo was a famous artist, and Copernicus was a famous scientist.
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Cycle 2 - Week 7 - Tell me about the Reformation.
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In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by printing the Ninety-Five Theses that made Pope Leo X excommunicate him. Later John Calvin joined the Reformation.
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Cycle 2 - Week 8 - Tell me about the European exploration.
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Between the late 1400s and the mid-1500s, Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, Amerigo Vespucci sailed to the Americas, Balbo crossed Central America to the Pacific, Magellan's crew sailed around the globe, and Coronado explored the American Southwest.
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Cycle 2 - Week 9 - Tell me aboutthe age of absolute monarchs.
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Between the 1500s to the 1700s, Henry VIII of England, Louis XIV of France, Philip II Spain, Peter the Great of Russia, and Frederick the Great of Prussia ruled during the age of absolute monarchs.
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Cycle 2 - Week 10 - Tell me about the history of Russia.
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Vladimir I brought Christianity to Russia in the 900s. In the late 1400s,Czar Ivan the Great built the Kremlin in Moscow. Catherine the Great expanded and westernized Russia in the late 1700s.
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Cycle 2 - Week 11 - Tell me about the French Revolution.
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In 1789, the French Revolution began when citizens stormed the Bastille and fought for the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Later, during the Reign of Terror, the aristocrats' heads were removed by the guillotine.
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Cycle 2 - Tell me about the Battle of Waterloo.
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Napoleon Bonaparte of the French Empire was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British General Wellington soon after the War of 1812 in the United States.
