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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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This ruler established a code which mandated that pavilions be owned by only one family and ordered the execution of the Duke of Biron partially for conspiring with Savoy, which was forced to surrender Bresse to him by the Treaty of Lyons. His other less known diplomacy includes sending the Duke of Mercoeur to sign the Peace of Vervins. His mistresses included Gabrielle dEstre, and he won major military victories at Arques and Ivry. His main advisor Maximilien de Bethune, the Duke of Sully, reformed the paulette and he was succeeded by his son by Marie de Medici, Louis XIII. FTP, name this French king who declared that Paris was worth a mass and signed the Edict of Nantes as the first Bourbon.
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History


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A speech of this ruler is recorded on the Lyon tablet, and Hadrian extended this rulers effort to drain the Fucine Lake. This ruler decreed that sick slaves left at the Temple of Aesculapius would be freed, and he upheld the rights of Egyptian Jews with his Letter to the Alexandrians. This ruler temporarily restored the autonomy of Judea, but reclaimed it as a province after the death of Herod Agrippa I. He used elephants to conquer Camulodunum, and this ruler pardoned the captured general Caratacus after sending Aulus Plautius to conquer Britain. The freedman Narcissus wielded power under this man and helped to expose the plot of his wife Messalina. He was poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina. For 10 points, name successor to Caligula, the dice-playing fourth Roman emperor.
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History


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This man half-jokingly suggested that he would teach his wife to read Amadis de Gaul instead of the Bible, and later wives included the runaway nun Charlotte de Bourbon and a daughter of Admiral Coligny. Among this mans co-conspirators was Floris de Montmercy, who was executed before Anne of Austria could ask her husband to spare him. This man offered the kingship of his country to Francis, Duc dAlenon et dAnjou, after a series of victories by Alessandro Farnese forced him to turn to France for support. This man was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard in 1584, before the liberation of his nation was complete. For 10 points, identify this Dutch freedom fighter, whose heirs were Stadtholders of the United Provinces and whose great-grandson of the same name ruled England with his wife Mary II.
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History