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32 Cards in this Set
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Plato
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author of The Republic and wanted philosopher kings
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Herodotus
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author of Historia
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Socrates
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believer in absolue truth
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Aeschyclus
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Author of the OResteia trilogy
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Thucydides
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wrote an account of the Peloponnesian Wars
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Aristotle
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Wrote "Politics" and supported the middle class
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Phidias
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sculptor responsible for the interior of the Parthenon
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Archimedes
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inventor of compound pulley and cylinder screw
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Golden Age of Athens
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mid 400s BC- time of prosperity for Greece
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Persian Wars- Years and what they did
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499 BC- 479 BC- united Athens and sparta against the Persians
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Peloponnesian Wars
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432 BC- 404 BC, Athens v. Sparta
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Hadrian
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emperor who divided Rome into 4 districts
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Trajan
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emperor who supported gladiators
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Nero
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banned capital punishment
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Hortensia
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Greek orator
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Gaius Gracchus
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younger brother who helped the poor and was killed by slaves
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Tiberius Gracchus
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older brother who helped the poor and was killed by the senate
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Jupiter
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Zeus
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Juno
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Aphrodite
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Minerva
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Hera
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Venus
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Athena
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Diana
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Artemis
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Diana
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Artemis
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Punic Wars
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1st- 264-241 BC
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1453
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Constantinople falls
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1054 AD
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Great Schism
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732
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Battle of Tours
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Henry II
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Established common law
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Hugh Capet
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Started French Monarchy
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King John
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Signed the Magna Carta
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Phillip II
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Started Spanish empire in the West
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Ivan the Great
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1st Tsar of Russia
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