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47 Cards in this Set
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Achaemenids |
First Persian empire, largest empire |
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Cyrus |
founder of the achaemenid empire |
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Satrap |
the governors of the Persian Empire provinces |
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Darius I |
Darius the Great, ruled the Persian Empire, Wrote of the cliff, invented Persian script |
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Zoroastrianism |
a religion based on good and evil, truth and lie, monotheistic, text: Zend Avesta |
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Ahura Mazda |
was the "truth" in the zoroastrianism religion |
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Xerxes |
fourth King of Persia |
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Herodotus |
father of history |
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Home |
wrote: the Iliad, the Odyssey he was philosopher in Greece |
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Athens |
Home of democracy, part of Greek city-states |
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Sparta |
city-state in Ancient Greece, dominant military, situated southern |
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Oligarchy |
ruled by a few |
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Democracy |
government by all |
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Gymnasium |
where Olympic competitors trained, naked |
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Ionia |
Ionians one of the four major divisions of Ancient Greece city-states |
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Marathon |
the place where the first Greco-Persian war, proved Persians could be defeated, messenger ran the length of a marathon to deliver message and died on the spot |
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Thermopylae |
the battle of 300, there Sparta kept the more numerous Persian attackers at bay long enough to prepare Athens |
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Salamis |
naval battle between Greece and Persia |
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Triremes |
A type of boat used by Greeks |
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Delian League |
association of Greek city-states under the rule of Athens |
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Sophocles |
wrote Greek tragedies (plays) |
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Oedipus Rex |
one of a Sophocles greek athenian tragedy |
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Socrates |
created method of thinking in which you break down something up into question where if answered will lead you to an overall solution |
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Plato |
created allegory of the cave, student of Socrates, had a problem with governement |
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The Republic |
type of government when you elect individuals to represent you |
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Allegory of the Cave |
imagine you're in a cave and you watch an illusion on the cave wall, but you escape and see the actual world and everything you've known is wrong. When you go back to rescue the others they only call you crazy and insane |
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Aristotle |
Plato's student, literal base of modern education |
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Peloponnesian War |
War between Athens and Sparta because of government oppinion |
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Phillipe II |
King of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great |
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Macedonia |
northern of Athens, invaded them after the peloponnesian war |
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Alexander the Great |
Macedonian, spread Hellenism around basically everywhere including even outside of old Persian and Roman territories |
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Hellenism |
Greek influence of art, religion, ideas, language, government |
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Olympias |
Mother of Alexander the Great, on of Phillipe II wives |
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Thebes |
major city in central Greece |
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Battle of Issus |
a battle between Alexander the Greats army and the Persians |
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Battle of Gaugemala |
battle which Alexander the Great conquered Asia and the entire Persian empire by defeating Darius III |
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Hepheastion |
Macedonian, Alexander the Greats best friend and head military general |
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Roxana |
Wife of Alexander the Great |
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Romulus and Remus |
Brothers who founded Rome, raised by a wolf
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Tiber River |
boundary of Rome
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Carthage |
a marine Pheonician powerful power, major trade, fought with Romans
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Punic Wars |
they had a treaty between Rome and Carthage but was broken resulted in a series of wars that lasted a long time between the two |
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Qin |
first imperial dynasty of China, created it's name |
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Han |
first long lasting imperial dynasty following the Qin short dynasty |
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Filial Piety |
the relationships within the family transfered to politics |
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Shi Huan Di / Ying Zheng |
united China's warring states during Qin dynasty, who made individualized terra cotta warriors for his grave, believed in the afterlife |
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Wu Di |
7th emperor to the Han Dynasty, longest reigning emperor |
