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31 Cards in this Set
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Gyges
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bodyguard to Candaules, watched the naked queen, she figures it out and threatens him so he kills Candaules and becomes king of Lydia
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Candaules
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orders his bodyguard Gyges to watch his wife naked in their bedroom, is killed by Gyges after the wife figures out what he did
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Croesus
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King of Lydia, talks with Solon about who is the happiest man, is told that Tellus is happiest because he had a good life and a glorious death at war, ignores Solon → goes to oracle and asks whether he should invade Persia, is told that a great empire will fall if he does this, but goes ahead anyway
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Lydia
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ruled by Croeus, conquered by cyrus
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Solon
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believes that a man is not truly happy until he is dead because he must have a good life and a glorious death
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Sardis
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Persian city, sacked by Ionians with the Athenian’s help
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Cyrus
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Persian king raised by a shepherd and acted like a king as a child, captures Croesus and is about to kill him, but hears of Solon’s wisdom and decides to spare him and he becomes Cyrus’ council, conquers Babylon, Scythia, and Massagetae
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Medes
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people of medea, conquered by Cyrus
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Astyages
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king of Persia, father to Mandane, grandfather to Cyrus, Mandane dreams that she urinates over asia and a tree grows from her genitals, so he thinks her son is going to overthrow him, orders guard Harpagus to kill Cyrus, finds out he didn’t and feeds Harpagus’ son to him for punishment
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Mandane’s dream
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dreams that she urinates over asia and a tree grows from her genitals, so he thinks her son is going to overthrow him, orders guard Harpagus to kill Cyrus
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Nitocris
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queen of Babylon, built moats/canals from River Euphrates for defense, also wrote on her tomb that any king of Babylon could use the money in the tomb, but only if necessary, Darius wanted the money so he opened it but found no money, just a trick
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Babylon
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conquered by cyrus
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Massagetae
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ruled by queen Tomyris, attacked by Cyrus
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Tomyris
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queen of Massagetae, rejects advances of Cyrus, is attacked by Cyrus, her son is captured, Cyrus releases him but the son kills himself, fights Cyrus, Cyrus gives Massagetae wine and gets them drunk, he is killed in final battle
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Cambyses
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king of Persia, conquers Egypt, goes crazy and has his brother Smerdis killed, tries other crazy campaigns like Carthage and Ammonia, dies in Egypt
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Smerdis
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son of Cyrus, is killed by Cambyses, but false Smerdis shows up claiming to be undead brother, overthrows Cambyses but is later discovered to be false b/c he doesn’t have ears, killed in his sleep
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Apis
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bull god that Cambyses wounds, makes him go crazy, hit in the leg by a bull
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Darius
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slays magis and false smerdis, becomes king of Persia after he trains his horse to whinny before other horses, wants best possible monarchy led by best possible person, argues against democracy b/c people are ignorant/stupid
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Campaigns of Darius
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invades Greece for first time, defeated by Athenians in Battle of Marathon, takes revenge on Ionians/Athenians for sacking Sardis
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Ethiopians
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strong, handsome, tall, long-lived, like the Cyclopes (animalistic, barbaric)
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Ammonians
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oracle of Zeus Amon, campaign of Cambyses to enslave them, fails when his starving soldiers revert to cannibalism
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Ethnography of Indians
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Indian men have black semen, giant ants
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Marathon
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darius leads Persian in defeat against athenians
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Xerxes
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still trying to get revenge from Athenians/Ionians revolt, sent supplies ahead to allies along path to Greece, demands water and earth from Greeks, Spartans/Athenians refuse, reflects on life with Artabanus (told not to increase size of forces and not to let Ionians fight because they would betray), whips Hellespont after bridge is destroyed, someone address him as Zeus in disguise, ignores an omen, thinks they don’t apply to him
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Mt. Athos
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Xerxes orders digging channel separating Athos from mainland, all out of arrogrance
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Hellespont
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river where Xerxes builds a great bridge, destroyed by a storm so Xerxes whips the river
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Thermopylae
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300 spartans lose against persians
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Leonidas
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king of Sparta, leads Spartans to defeat at battle Thermopylae
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Salamis
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water battle which Athenians win against persians
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Themistocles
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Athenian general in battle of Salamis
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Artemesia
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queen on the Persian side, rams into Persian ship so Athenians think she’s on Athenian side, Xerxes admires her for ramming into what he thinks is an Athenian ship
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