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26 Cards in this Set
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Alfred Wallace |
he believed: we(humans) evolved up to homo erectus, natural disaster happens, changed us into what we are today |
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Viziers |
a special advisor to the pharaoh. made sure governors were doing their job and the country was running smoothly. |
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Pontius Pilate |
- administrator of Judaea - convicted Jesus of treason and declared that jesus thought himself king of jews and had him crucified - his death remained a mystery |
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Judas |
- judas iscariot - one of the 12 apostles of jesus christ - know for the kiss and betrayal of jesus to the sanhedrin for 30 silver coins |
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Theseus |
GREEK MYTH: thesus selected to go to Crete to kill the minotaur, ships sailed black but purple in case success, befriended mino's daugther ariadne (gave him thread + sword) to kill mino, he left ari on island but she met dionysus, sails forgot to change to purple, theseus's dad jumps out a window over grief |
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Darius |
- Darius The Great - king of persia - attempted to conquer greece - his fleet was destroyed by a storm - athenians defeated his army at marathon |
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Homer |
- famous poet - wrote the Iliad and The Odyssey |
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Hannibal |
- leader of military forces of Carthage that fought against Rome in the second Punic war - rome's greatest enemy
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Romulus & Remus |
- twin brothers - known for being the founders of rome - Romulus killed remus for making fun of the wall and his city |
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Nero |
-fifth emperor of rome - youngest emperor at age 16 - killed anyone in his way including his wife, mother and step brother - senate declared him an enemy - suicide at age 30 |
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Augustus/Ocatvion |
- born gaius octavius - his uncle was juilus caesar - avenged his death by deafeating antony and cleopatra at the battle of actium |
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Constantine |
- roman emperor - converted to christianity and established the city of constantinople - baptized shortly after his death
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Diocletian |
- son of a poor family that rose to become roman emperor - brought authority to the imperial office - tried to turn christians back to paganism |
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Theodosius
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- roman emperor - last to emperor to control the eastern and western divisions of the empire |
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Romulus Augustus |
- last roman emperor of the west |
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Orestes |
- only son of agamemnon and clyemnestra |
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Odoacer |
- help to destroy the roman empire
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franks |
- germanic tribes tat migrated from orthern europe into gaul
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vassals |
- worked on vast plots of landfor the feudal lords in exchange for protection and use of the land called a fief |
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Merovinigians |
- frankish dynasty that rose from the fallen roman empire |
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Carolinginas |
- dynasty of rulers in europe - franks - charlemmagne who became master of western europe |
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charlemagne |
un equal power between brothers since all were selfish and din't split it equally |
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clovis |
king of the franks - united all franks under one ruler |
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sumerians |
- region in southern mesopotamia |
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ziggurats |
massive structures built in the mesopotamia valley - step pyramid |
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feudalism |
grouping of legal and military customs |
