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|birthplace of democracy in the 400s BC, Athens was a Greek city-state previously ruled by aristocrats. It defeat invading Persians.
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|birthplace of democracy in 509 BC, Athens was a Greek city-state previously ruled by aristocrats. It defeat invading Persians.
 
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|A Renaissance movement in the arts, looking back to ancient Rome and Greece for inspiration
 
|A Renaissance movement in the arts, looking back to ancient Rome and Greece for inspiration
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|Cleisthenes
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|Established democracy in Athensin 507 BC, giving all free men the right to vote
 
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|An apostle of Jesus, and the only one not to have seen Him in the flesh. He went to different churches and wrote letters that make up a part of the New Testament of the Bible
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|an energetic evangelist for early Christianity, who wrote many letters now in the New Testament of the Bible
 
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|A disciple and apostle of Jesus, who taught in areas such as Jerusalem and Palestine
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|a leading apostle of Jesus who became the first pope in Rome, where he was martyred
 
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|The first king of Israel appointed by God. He turned out to be a very flawed character, afflicted by jealousy for David.
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|The first king of Israel appointed by God. A flawed character, Saul was jealous of David.
 
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|An Athenian philosopher who believed that the world we experience is a poor substitute for reality.  His philosophy inspired Plato and in turn Aristotle, and became the accepted Orthodoxy until modern times.   
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|the first great Greek philosopher, Socrates taught that the world we see is not all of reality.  Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle.   
 
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