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Late Classical Period
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Neo-platonism
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a new Roman religion, an alternative to christianity, a monotheistic rep-roman reigion, based on Plato's ideas
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Theodosius I
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last emperor to rule entire empire, deals with Barbarians during his reign
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Ambrose
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Bishop of Milan, most influencial of the time, believed it was wrong for State to tell church what to do.
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Augustine
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Believed Adam and Eve's sin is passed down to all of us. Only Jesus can save you.
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Diocletian
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Believed one emperor couldn't rule the whole empre, longest reigning emperor
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Constantine
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1st romanemperor who is frindly to Christians, Christian emperor
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Edict of Milan
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legalied christianity
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Arianism
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Namd after Arius who was the priest in Alexandria. Arian Christianity worships the Father (God) not Jesus.
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Coouncil of Nicea
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All bishops came to argue is Bishop Alexander or Arius was right about ho Christianity monothelistic religion or not.
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Romulus Augustulus
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The last Roman Emperor of the West. Depoed by a general
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Byzantine Empire
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mainly spoke Greek, still Roman Empire
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Justinian I
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son of previous Emperor, goalwas to reconquest the western pay to Europe, known for codification of Roman Law
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Heraclius I
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Firs to fight the Islams successful campaign against the Persians, known for Economic reforms
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Aksum
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Successor state of Mroe, Africa, Semitic
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Ezana
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King of Aksum, converted to Christianity and transformed Aksum to a Christian state
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Menelik
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First king of Aksum, king Solemn of Jerusalem, given the Ark of Covenant by father King Solemn.
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Bazen
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King os Ethiopia, one of the three kings in painting of Baby Jesus.
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Sassanid Empire
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eradicated all Greek things, tried to revive Achaemid culture
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Khosrau I
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Justinian paid him 400k of gold to not attack Rome, used gold to rebuild Sassanid Empire
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Manichaeism
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reigion developed byMani in te person empire, micture of Budhiss, zoroastrianism, and christianity
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Samudra Gupta
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was educated to be a prince, very educated to be a prince, very intelligent, most of India was conqured by him
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Zhuge Liang
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Prime minister of Wu, stories of him tricking his opponents during battle. Famous character/person during the 3 kingdoms
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16 kingdoms
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formed by foreigners who ran Northern China
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Shotoku
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member of the Soga family, married an empress, Suiko;said to create Japan's first constitution, influenced in confucianism
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The Taika Reform
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created by Tenji "Great Change", hd punishments, land distriutions, all land be public property
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Tenji
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made te Taika Reform, divided coutry to provinces, made soga family 'ousted'
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Shintoism
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believe that everything has a spirit
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