Ancient History Flashcards - Kings Or People

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Narmer

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a king of Upper Egypt who gathered the forces of the south and led them north to invade Lower Egypt

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Ahmose

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an Egyptian prince who raised an army and drove the Hyksos out

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Hatsheput

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a woman pharaoh in Egypt around 1480 B.C.

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Thutmose III

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an Egyptian pharaoh, stepson of Hatsheput, who conquered Syria

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Akhenton

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name was originally Ahmenhotep, and he claimed to be the supreme deity, the sun-disk god Aton

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Ramses II

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fought the Hittites for control of Syria

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Sumerians

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from central Asia and settled in the lower part of the Tigris-Euphrates valley; Sumer was birthplace of the first cities

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Sargon I

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first empire builder in Mesopotamia; people were Akkadians

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Hammurabi

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Babylonian ruler whose greatest achievement was his effort to emake justice appear in the land; created 282 sections written down

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David

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Israelite king who fought Goliath and set up a capital at Jerusalem

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Solomon

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founded new cities and constructed a temple to God in Jerusalem

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Nebuchadnezzar

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a Babylonian king who conquered the city of Jerusalem and the city-state of Tyre; built the hanging gardens

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Nebuchadnezzar

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a Babylonian king who conquered the city of Jerusalem and the city-state of Tyre; built the hanging gardens

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Cyrus II

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Persian king who seized Babylon and conquered the Chaldean Empire

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Darius I

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a Perian king who divided the realm into provinces and assigned satraps; waged war against Greece

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Xerxes

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made a Persian campaign to defeat Greece, but he was defeated

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Zoroaster

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preached that the world was divided by a struggle between good and evil

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Philip II

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a Macedonian king who was determined to do three great things: create a strong army, unify the quarrelign Greek city-states, and destroy the Persian empire

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Alexander the Great

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a young Macedonian king who conquered key cities of the Persian empire; he had a goal to create an empire that would unite Europe and Asia and combine the best of the Persian and Greek cultures

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Socrates

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a philosopher who was attracted to the process by which people learned how to think by themselves

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Plato

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one of Socrates's pupil; a philosopher and he gave more importance to the state than to the individual; wrote the Republic

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Aristotle

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a philosopher who wrote more than 200 books ranging from astronomy to political science; wrote book cakked Politics

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Cleisthenes

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established democracy for Athens

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Draco

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Athenian legislator who wrote down a code of laws in 621 B.C. (draconian = very severe law)

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Homer

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a blind Greek poet who wrote the two most famous Greek epics--the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Pericles

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Athenian general who led Athens through the Golden Age; died during Peloponesian War of the plague

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Leonidas

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a Greek king who stood firm at Thermoplylae, battling the Persians in the Persian War

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Solon

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poet-lawmaker who became leader of Athens after Draco; canceled land debts and freed debtors from slavery

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Peisistratus

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succeeded Solon and exended citizenship to men who did not own land