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