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Which Spartan festival honored Apollo and featured athletic and musical contests?
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Carneia
Which famous Spartan saying urged soldiers to return from battle with their shield or on it?
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With it or on it
What term described non-citizen free inhabitants who lived in towns around ancient Sparta?
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Perioikoi
Which sanctuary in ancient Sparta was famous for the Artemis Orthia cult and ritual endurance contests?
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Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
In ancient Sparta, what title was given to each of the five annually elected magistrates who supervised the kings?
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Ephor
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Which famous Spartan saying urged soldiers to return from battle with their shield or on it?
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With it or on it
Which sanctuary in ancient Sparta was famous for the Artemis Orthia cult and ritual endurance contests?
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Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Which French knight was nicknamed the Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, meaning “the knight without fear and beyond reproach”?
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Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard
Which 1099 First Crusade siege ended with crusader forces capturing Jerusalem?
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Siege of Jerusalem
Which London knight and mayor helped suppress the Peasants' Revolt by killing Wat Tyler in 1381?
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William Walworth