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What was earliest known Greek civilization?
Polis is a Greek term meaning what?
What is an aristocracy?
What is a democracy?
What is a tyrant?
What did Draco produce?
What did Athens establish under the rule of Cleisthenes?
What is the name of the famous battle where the Spartan 300 made a stand against Persia?
What started the Persian Wars?
What started the Peloponnesian War?
Which side won the Peloponnesian War?
How did Sparta win the Peloponnesian War?
What was Socrates’ theory about what students should believe/do?
Socrates taught that education led to what?
What is philosophy?
Plato believed that humans could not reach what?
Who believed that knowledge could only be gained through logical study?
Who developed approaches to organizing information that are now part of modern science?
Who wrote The Republic and Theory of Forms?
What is an aristocracy?
Aristotle believed that logical study led to what?
What are the 3 parts to Greek Theater?
What is a phalanx?
Who’s army was one of the first to use the idea of a phalanx?
What did Phillip II wanted to unify?
What was Alexander the Great’s ultimate goal?
Hellenistic Culture was a blend of what 3 cultures?
Which philosopher taught that the aim of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain?
Who believed that people should live simply and naturally, without regard for pleasure or wealth or status?
Who taught that life should be lived for pleasure?
What did the Skeptics teach?
How would you describe the system of checks and balances?
Who were the plebeians?
Who were the patricians?
During the Punic Wars, who was Rome fighting?
During the Second Punic War, who was the leader of Carthage?
Hannibal led a force of 50,000 soldiers and 60 elephants across the Alps to invade who?
Spartacus was a Roman slave who led a revolt to gain what?
How did Julius Caesar die?
What is a Triumvirate?
The Pax Romana began during the reign of which ruler?
What was the name given to the relatives of Julius Caesar who ruled the Roman Empire?
Who was the grandnephew of Julius Caesar, also known as Octavian?
On page 161, name the leaders of the “Five Good Emperors”.
What was Ptolemy’s belief about the solar system?
What was Constantine a big supporter of?
Attila was the leader of whom? Hint: they fought Rome in Gaul.
Government weaknesses, Invasions by Germans, Economic problems, were all causes of what?