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| 98691377 | Cyrillic alphabet | based on the Greek alphabet and used by Slavic languages heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. Attributed to the missionary work St. Cyril in the ninth century. | 0 | |
| 98691378 | Greek fire | Byzantine weapon consisting of mixture of chemicals (petroleum, quicklime, sulfur) that ignited when exposed to water; utilized to drive back Arab fleets that attacked Constantinople | 1 | |
| 98691379 | Cyril and Methodius | Byzantine missionaries sent to convert eastern Europe and the Balkans; responsible for creating the Slavic written script called Cyrillic. | 2 | |
| 98691380 | Benedict of Nursia | Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman Empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century; paralleled development of Basil's rules in Byzantine Empire. | 3 | |
| 98691381 | Beowulf | oldest literary work in a vernacular language work based on Danish legend, 1st written in 700's in Anglo-Saxon, tells story of he hero beowulf who chased and killed the monster Grendal before becoming King of his people | 4 | |
| 98691382 | Cortés | explorer/conqueror, landed on the shores of Mexico, found the Aztecs and pretended to be a god, eventually overtaking them and issuing the Requerimento. | 5 | |
| 98691383 | "flowery death" | Death while taking prisoners for the sacrificial knife. | 6 | |
| 98691384 | Hopewell | a mound builder society that was centered in the ohio river valley and flourished from about 200 bc to 400 | 7 |
