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92 Cards in this Set

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people living in Italian peninsula
etruscans and greeks
the struggle of the ____
orders
power held in the Roman republic
senate
1st punic war caused rome to build a
navy
Hannibal crossed the
alps
hannibal defeated the romans at
Cannae
Hannibal was defeated by the roman general ____ and where?
scipio , Zama
"carthage must be destroyed"
Cato
Gracchi was noted for
agrarian reform
roman general to commission a professional army
Marius
roman general that fought against Marius and appointed himself dictator
Sulla
wrote Metamorphoses and the Art of Love
Ovid
golden age of Byzantine Empire the ruler was
Justinian
most powerful woman in the ancient world
Theodora
scandinavian warriors
vikings and battled with the Axe
vikings were defeated at
Stamford Bridge
the english were defeated at
Helms Deep
affluent people of rome
Patricians
common people of rome
Plebeians
how many tables were there of roman law
12
the author of Lex Sempronia Agraria
Tibrlius Gracchus
riots that took place during the Byzantine empire
Nika
famous Tapestry
Bayeaux
female pope
joan
catal Huyuk
early tone age town
greek word meaning land between rivers
Mesopotamia
ancient philosopher that gave description of atlantis
plato
Sumerians system of writing
Cuneiform
Minioan civilization started
Crete
the Mycenaean civilization started
peloponnesian peninsula
german archaeologist
schliemann
religion that unified the Persian empire
Zoroastrianism
Spartan law giver that led the society to military
Lycurgus
greek prophecy
delphi
Spartans enslaved Messenians and referred to them as
Helots
1st persian war lead by
Darius
the first punic war ended at
Marathon
Mesopotamian diety that presided over the under world
Nwegal
northen mesopotiamia
Assyria
were 300 Spartians gave their lives
Thermopoly
persian navy was defeated at the battle of
Salamis
persian Army was defeated at
Plataea
delian league
athens
peloponnesian league
Sparta
seleucid Dynasty
Anatolia persia
ptolemies
egypt and the nile area
antigonid dynasty
eastern Mediterranean, and all of the Middle East except Babylonia.
hellenistic mathematician
Erathosthenes
legendary king of the mycenaeans
Agamemmnon
Sumerian king that took a mythis journey
Gilgamish
tried to measure the distance of the earth to the moon
Aristarchus
babylonian ruler famous for his law codes
Hammurabi
athenian ruler that was its first legislator
Draco
blind poet of Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
wife of agamemmnon who killed him
Clytemnestra
Athenian tyrant who helped the less fortunate
Peisistratus
ruler of the Akkad
Sargon
leader of athens during the golden age.
Pericles
the father of history
Herodotus
king responsible for the rise of the persian empire
cyrus
inspired socrates, famous woman
aspasia
on the the 7 sages of the ancient world
solon
adams first wife who refused to be submissive
lilith
greek comedic writer
Aristophanes
grek historian that wrote of the PP wars
Thuycidides
father of greek democracy
cleisthenes
ran the school for girls on the isle of lesbos
Sappho
greek tragedian writer
Aeschylus
followed his fathers footsteps, empire
alexander
composed a almanac Works and Days
Hesiod
Macedonian king that almost took over the ancient world till killed by his gay lover
phillip II
wrote Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
the historian of the roman era
Livy
her name is synonymus with sluts
Messalina
rape of this woman brought the birth of the roman republic
Lucretia
crazy bitch from ireland
Boudicca
first roman emperor
Octavian
english king thats death led to the events of 1066
Edward
trans roman emperor
Elagabalus
appointed by Witan to rule england after the death of Edward
Harold Godwinson
the political advisor and wife to octavian
livia
this roman emperor was captured by the persians and made to be a foot stool
Valerian
queen of palmyra, that was captured by the romans and made to walk through the streets of rome naked
Zenobia
philosopher emperor
Marcus Aurelius
first roman emperor to convert to Christianity
Constantine
king of the vikings that attacked england in 1066
Harald Hardrada
norman duke that crossed the english channel and was defeated by
William
daughter of octivian that was cast out of rome
Julia
roman general that was elected to councul a rcord of 7 times
Marius
author of the roamn epic THE AENEID
Virgil
historian of the Byzantine Empire the secret history
Procopius
he turned rome into a blood bath and appointed himself dictator
Sulla