| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Moses and Staff | Religious leader who through down the staff before pharoah and it turned into a snake |
| Adam | Old testament- first man, created from dust |
| King Solomon | King of ancient Israel- chop the baby in half to determine mother |
| Jacob and Esau | younger son persuades Esau to sell him his birthright and tricked out of father's blessing |
| Methuselah | longest-lived of all humans; lived to 969 |
| Brazen Serpent | Set up by Moses which is said to have healed those who looked upon it |
| Judas | apostle who betrayed christ in Garden of Gethsemane with a kiss |
| David and Goliath | David defeated the giant Goliath |
| Doubting Thomas | Did not believe Christ was resurrected without prof |
| Miguel Cervantes and Don Quixote | Don= romantic/hero/fantisizer, Miguel= realist |
| Sir Walter Scott | Writes in the style of adventure novels, romanticized, and idealized |
| John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress | classic puritan literature |
| Romeo and Juliet | Star crossed lovers |
| Richard III | served as protector to his nephew, Edward V, defeated by Henry Tudor |
| Hamlet | Avenge fathers death, must kill uncle |
| Macbeth | Witches, king ... |
| King lear | king says to daughters tell me you love me, 2 say it, 3rd is turned away, 3rd eventually takes father in |
| Muses | "preserving the unities" |
| The thousand and one nights | King shahriyar and shahzaman. viziers daughter destracts by sharing stories 1001 nights to protect vergins |
| Emancipation Proclamation | emancipating all black slaves in states still engaged in rebellion agaist federal union |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws |
| Temperance movement | abstain and use moderation with alchohal |
| Christopher columbus | discovered america |
| Abolitionist | person who favors the abolition of slavery |
| Charlemagne | became master of western europe (falls into decay) |
| Henry VIII | six wives: esxecuted and divorced when couldnt get a boy- founded Roman Catholic Church |
| Louis XVI | Revolution became extreme- executed with wife Marie Antionette |
| Dauphin | Eldest son of the King of France- mysterious |
| Minstrel Show | Blackface performers: Jim crow, Zip Coon, Mr. Tambo |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Appointed fugitive slave commissioners to issue warrants for the arrest of runaway slaves |
| Henry Clay | works a compromise betwen slave owning states and northern states |
| George Wasthington | 1st American president |
| Declaration of Independence | Thmas jefferson issued statement where thirteen northern colonies were separated from Britain |
| KKK | Destroy reconstruction by murdering black |
| Boston Tea Party | Demonstration of rebellion from British rule |
| Pluribus-unum | one of many |
| Prohibition | government prohibited all Alcohol |
| Cain | First born of adam and eve. God accepted abels offering and cain killed him in rage |
| Hatfields and McCoys | Famous feud over hog |
| Aristotle's Unities | 24 hours, single location, central story |
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