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History ch 7-10

  1. what is the Greek word for city
    polis
  2. What culture of people lived on the islands of Greece
    Minoans
  3. What people lived on the mainland
    Mycenaeans
  4. who developed the first important European civilization after the Flood
    Minoans
  5. classic Greek
    Hellenes
  6. Blind singing poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey
    Homer
  7. Chief Greek god
    Zeus
  8. Greco-Persian Wars
    490 B.C.
  9. First major naval battle in history
    Battle of Salamis
  10. a turning point in world history
    Xerxes' defeat in Greece
  11. where the Persians suffered there first great defeat at the hand of the Athenians
    Marathon
  12. What was known as the market place
    agora
  13. ruled by one
    monarchy
  14. ruled by few
    oligarchy
  15. ruled by best
    aristocracy
  16. ruled by the many or the common people
    democracy
  17. One of the ten annually elected generals

    brought Athenian democracy to its fullest
    Pericles
  18. The age of Pericles
    "Golden age of Greece"
  19. What war was fought between Athens and Sparta and there apposing leagues
    Peloponnesian War
  20. First tyrant of Athens
    Peisistratus
  21. Macedonian king that conquered Greece
    Philip II
  22. What 3 dynasties came from Alexander the Greats Kingdom
    • Ptolemies
    • Seleucids
    • Antigonids
  23. time period of Greece that took place between c. 700 B.C. and 338 B.C.
    Hellenic Age
  24. "Father of History"
    Herodotus
  25. two greatest Greek tragedies
    • Oedipus Rex
    • Antigone
  26. Father of medicine
    Hippocrates
  27. Time period between 323 B.C.
    and 30 B.C.
    Hellenistic Age
  28. what teachings emphasize worldly pleasures and indulgence
    Epicureanism
  29. Which teachings man should live according to reason and the law of nature
    Stoicism
  30. Greek Father of Medicine
    Hippocrates
  31. legendary Greek writer, wrote fables
    Aesop
  32. Greatest among the Athenian temples
    Parthenon
  33. Phillip II ruled what country before he conquered Greece
    Macedonia
  34. Who led each side in Rome's first Civil War
    • Marius
    • Sulla
  35. what does Triumvirate mean
    ruled by three men
  36. Who formed the second and the first Triumvirate
    • SECOND 
    • Mark Antony
    • Octavian
    • Lepidus

    • FIRST
    • Pompey
    • Julius Caesar
    • Crassus
  37. Octavian beat Antony where
    Actium
  38. 200 years of peace and prosperity in the Mediterranean world
    Pax Romana
  39. Volcano
    Mt. Vesuvius
  40. common everyday form of Latin
    medieval Latin
  41. who wrote against Gnosticism
    Irenaeus
  42. vast galleries beneath the city
    catacombs
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History ch 7-10
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