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What mesopatamia lead first made Babylon his capital city?
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Hammurabi
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Who was the patron God of Thebes?
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Amon
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Who was the patron God of Babylon?
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Marduk
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According to Greek mythology, the heart (ib) was weighted against _________ in the House of Judgement in the underworld?
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Feather of Ma'at
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In what ancient mesopotamia story can one find in the story of the Utnapishtim and the flood sent down by Enlil to rid the country people?
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Why did Ramses build the abu of simbel?
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Celebrate his victory against the Kadesh
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What militant Greek civilization took over Crete by 1400 BC after the minoians had been weakened by a great volcano on thera and a tsunami?
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Mycenean
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Who conquered the southern two tribes of Judah sending the bulk of the population into "Babylonian captivity"?
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Nebuchanezzar
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Who built the hanging gardens of babylon?
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Nubuchanezzar
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Who wrote the Ilian and the Odyssey?
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Homer
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What did Hermes bring to Odyssey to help him resist the charms of circe?
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Holy Moly
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What greek goddess was forced to spend 6 (or 3) months of the year in the underworld because she had eaten a handful of pomegranate seeds after she was abducted from Hades?
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Persephone
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Who was the god of wine and ecstasy who inspired a following of "maenads"?
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Dioynusus
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Who was doomed to spend eternity seperating the heavens (Uranus) from Earth (Gaia) because he led the Titans agianst Olympians in the Titanomachy?
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Atlas
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Who was the ugly god of metal workers/technology who was married to Aphrodite?
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Hephaestus
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What was the name of for drinking parties attended by Greek men?
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Symposia
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Why did Psyche go to the underworld?
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Cursed by Aphrodite and made eye contact with Eros
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Who was the titan who had fought on the side of the Olympians, created by man, and stole fire back from Zeus to give his creation?
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Prometheus
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What was Promethesus punishment?
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Lay on a caucas rock and be eaten by vultures
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Who saved prometheus?
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Heracules
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This demigod son of Zeus and a mortal woman was forced to perform 12 labors to atone for his temporarily insane killed spree (which has caused him to kill his own children)
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Heracles
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How did he kill Heracles kill the Neamean lion?
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Choked it to death
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Who was the god of muse of history?
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Clio
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Who was the god of dreams?
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hypnos or somnis
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Who cried out the name of this goddess after running 26.2 miles to Athens to announce the defeat of Persia in the Battle of the Marathon?
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Phedippides
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What is the word for densely packed shoulder to shoulder military formation practiced by Greek warriors?
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Phalaxn
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What was the word for the citizen-soilders named for the larger round shields they carried into battle?
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Hoplites
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What was the name of the most popular event: an ultimate fighting event allowing competitors to kick, struggle, break bones, etc?
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Patcration
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In what year were the first Olympic games held?
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1776 BC
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What was the name of for the slaves the Spartans captured in Messenia?
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Helots
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Who was the famous female lyric poet who lived on the island of Lesbos who often passionately dedicated her works to women?
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Sappho
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What athenian statesmen sought to control civil violence through harsh punishment (giving us the word to describe any serve penalty, policy of regime?)
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Draco
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Which greek city states retained a dual monarchy and a goverment run by 5 euphros?
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Sparta
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Who ran the Spartan "300" agianst the Persians?
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King Leonidas
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What was the name of the alliance formed by the Athens, Sparta, Cornith, and some thirty others to face the unprecendented threat to the persians?
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Hellenes
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What 2 groups fought in the Peloponnesian War?
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Athens & Sparta
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What persian king conquered egypt in 525 BC before reportedly going mad and killing his siblings and Apis bull?
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Cambyses the second
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Who divided the Persian Empire into satraps, standardized the Persian currency and weights and measures, built a new royal residence and ceremonial capital (called Persopolis and Greeks)
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Darius
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Who served as co-ruler to her brother Thutmose the second and as a pharoah in her own right for 21 yrs while her daughter, Neferue, served as the "Great Royal Road"
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Hatsheput
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What Pharaoh rejected the god of Thebes and its preisthood in favor of a new genderless god, Aten, who was represented by sun-rays?
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Akenetan
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What was Akenaton's capital city?
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Amara
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Who was Akenetan's wife?
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Neferiti
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What civilzation from Anatolia (present day Turkey) adopted a horse-drawn chariots and the use or iron and fought against the Egyptians in 1275 BC Battle of Kadesh?
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The Hitites
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According to Greek mythology, who was the Phonecian princess who was kidnapped by Zeus (disguised as a white bull) and taken to the island of Crete?
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Europa
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Who was the future king of Crete who built a labrynith (maze) possibly inspired by the labyrinthine palace at Knossos?
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King Minos
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Who killed the Minotaur?
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Theseus
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Who helped Thesesus navigate through the maze?
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Adriane
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What militant Greek civilzation took over Crete by 1400 BC after the Minoans had been weakened by a great volcano in thera and tsunami?
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Mycenians
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What was the name given by Ramses the third to destructive wave of invaders who were responsible for destroying the Hittite kingdom and weakending Egypt?
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Sea Peoples
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Which of the cities of the Phonecians dominated the trade in papyrus?
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Biblos
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What was in the ark of covenant?
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Aaron's rod
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What empire did Nebuchadnezar rule?
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Chaldeans
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Who release the Hebrews from the captivity in Babylon?
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Cyrus
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Who was the rich kind of Lydia who was defeated by Persian King Cyrus the Great in 539 BC?
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Croesus
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Who was the Greek Godess of the earth who gave birth to Uranus then mated with him to produce the Titans?
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Gaia
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How did Rhea stop cronus from eating zeus?
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Gave him a rock
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Who was the Greek god of the underworld?
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Hades
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How did the Greeks mythologically explain the change of seasons?
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Persephone and the boat of haitas
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According to myth, why did Athenians name their city after Athena?
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She gave them the olive tree
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What was the name of the provincial governers who ruled Egypt during the 1st intermdiate period?
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Nomarchs
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What group of people ruled Egpyt during the 2nd intermediate period?
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Hykos
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Who was the first person to unify the Mesopotamiam city-states into an empire from his capital at Akkad?
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Sargon
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What is an agora?
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Marketplace
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Who was the persian emperor who led the campaign against the Greeks at Thermoplayte, Platea, and Salamis?
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Xerxes
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What was the name of the school founded by Plato?
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The academy
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What leaves the body at the moment of death according to the Egyptian mythology?
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KA
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How is bronze created?
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From alloying copper and tin
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What artifact discovered by Napoleon's men in 1799 helped the West decipher hieroglyphics?
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Rosetta Stone
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Who was the vizer to Djoser who designed the first step pyramid?
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Imhotep
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Who was the Egyptian god of the underworld?
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Osiris
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What is the name of the Mesopatamia "holy mountains" built from clay bricks in order to reach heaven?
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Ziggaruts
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What Pharoah rejected Amon, the god of Thebes, and its priesthood in favor of a new genderless god, Aten, who was represented by sun-rays?
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Akenatan
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Who was the future Hebrew king (founder of Jerusalem) who defeated Philistine giant, Goliath as a kid?
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David
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What was the name of the kingdom ruled by rick King Croesus before it was conquered by Persian King Cyrus the Great in 539 BC?
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Lydia
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What was the name of the Greek hell where the Titans were doomed to spend eternity after losing the Titanomachy against the olympians?
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Tarturus
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Why was Persophone doomed to spend part of the year in the kingdom of Hades causing her mother Demeter (goddess of fertility) to mourn?
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She ate pomegranate seeds
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What was the name of the female followers of Dionysus?
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Maenads
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Who was doomed to spend eternity separating the heavens (Uranus) from earth (Gaia) because he led the Titans against the Olympians in the Titanomachy?
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Atlas
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Who was the muse of history?
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Clio
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What important even took place in Greece in 776BC?
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First Olympics
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What was the last event in the Olympic Games?
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Hoplite Race
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From where did the Spartans acquire their slaves, the helots?
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Messinia
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Who was the famous female lyric poet who lived on the island of Lesbos who often passionately dedicated her worked to women?
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Sappho
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Why did Persian emperor Darius decide to fight the Athenians at Maraton?
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Helped Ionian Rebellion
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What persian kind conquered Egypt in 525 BC before reportedly going mad and killing his siblings and the Apis bull?
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Cambysses
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Provide two accomplishments of Persian king Darius the Great
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Royal road and Postal system
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What philopsher and his followers believed that numbers are the ultimate reality?
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Pythagoras
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What was the name (literally "those who are wise") given to the ancient Greek teachers who sold their knowledge in skills such as rhetoric (the art of discourse)?
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Sophist
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What illiterate philosopher (the self-proclaimed "wisest man" since he alone acknowledged his ignorance) famously argued with the sophists by engaging them in dialogues causing them to contradict themselves?
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Socrates
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How did socrates die?
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He drank the hemlot
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What Greek philosopher demonstrated how our senses can be flawed through his parable about prisoners in a cave?
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Plato
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Who was Alexander the Greats father?
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Phillip the 2nd
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How did the philosophers of the Hellenistic period differ from those of the Classical and Milesian period?
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More abstract ideas resembled eastern ideas
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What was the name of the ititnerant cynic who snubbed common social values by living in the barrels, relieving himself at will and wandering around Athens with a lamp purportedly "looking for an honest man"?
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Diogenes
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What was the name of the philosopher who believed that all things in the universe (including ourselves) are made up of atoms that fell and sifted randomly. When we die, he reasoned, the body and soul simply disperse. Since there is therefore no real purpose in life, we should all simply live it up
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Apicarus
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What is the name of the philosopher who believed contentment comes through the use of reason over passion and that we should submit the workings of the universe since whatever happens is for the best?
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Stocism
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What is the name of the 13th zodiac sign?
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Ophicuis
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Briefly explain the evolution of Greek art from Archaic Kouros to Hellenism
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Kouros resembled ancient egyptian with little detail. contraposta had much more detail and looked human and hellenist art was very extravagant with more muscles
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What is the term for the dynamic style of the sculpture that twists human figures so that one foot is up (the other relaxed), one side of the opposite hip rises and one arm is up?
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Contraposta
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Who was alexander the great's tutor?
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Aristotle
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What did Alexander do at the gordium?
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Cut the gordian knot
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Why didn't Alexander go deeper into India and conquer the rest of Asia?
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Troops rebelled
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Who was Alexander the Great's general who became governor and the Pharaoh of Egypt?
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Ptolemy
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Who was the Greek general who won rule over Asia?
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Selecius
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What persian palace was burned to the ground by Alexander's men in retaliation for the Persian destruction of Athens?
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Persepolis
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Who is the Greek or Roman god of sleep?
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Hypnos or Somnis
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Who was Alexander the Great's mother?
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Olympias
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Who was the last ptolemaic ruler?
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cleopatra the 7th
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Who did Zeus send down to marry to Epimetheus as a punishment to mankind after Prometheus stole back fire to give it to humans?
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Pandora
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What is a lugal?
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A king like figure, "big man"
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Who was the 3rd century egyptian historian, who wrote about the history of egypt and devised the system of numbering ruling dynasties?
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Menetho
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What empire was created by Sargon?
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Akkadia
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Sargon the 2nd ruled over what empire?
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Assyria
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Who separated egyptians gods geb and nut?
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Shu
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Who was the mesopotamia goddess of earth?
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Anu
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What would happen if the feather of ma'at was too heavy?
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Ammit would eat it
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What was the cause of the fall of the old kindgom?
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22nd bc climate change
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What is thebes called today?
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Luxor
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Who was the founder of Stocisim, the theory that happiness can only arise through the use of reason over passion (which he called a "disease of the soul"
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Zeno
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What was the capital city of Ptolemy's Egyptian kingdom?
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Alexandria
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What "wonder of ancient world" did ptolemy build in this city?
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Lighthouse of pharaohs
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What celestial theory (later contradicted by Greek astronomy Claudius Ptolemaeus or "ptolemy") was proposed by Aristarchus?
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Heliocentrism and the sun is bigger then the earth
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What Hellenistic mathematician and geographer came up with a way to determine prime numbers nearly calculated the circumference of the earth?
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Eratosthenes
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Who invented various weapons like the catapult and the giant claw and reportedly jumped out of his bathtub yelling, "eureka, eueka" ("I have found it") after figure out a principle on fluid mechanics (buyancy=weight of displaced fluid)
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Archimedes
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What was the name of the god "discovered" by Ptolemy that combined Greek & Egyptian features (human form, basket on his head etc..)
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Serapis
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Ancient doctors believed that that illnesses (both physical and psychological) resulted from an imbalance of fluids in the human body. What is the collective name for these bodily fluids?
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Humors
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A sanguine temperament (impulsive, charismatic) is associated with which of the four liquids?
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Blood
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Who was the goddess of universal cures and daughter of Asclepius (the god of medicine?)
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Panacia
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Who was Panacia's sister, the goddess of cleanliness, sanitation, and disease prevention?
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Hygenia
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Who wrote the the Aenid about a Trojan prince who escaped from Troy with his father and a number of refugees after Greek soliders poured out the Trojan horse and set the city on fire?
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Virgil
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What was the name of the Carthaginian queen who had brief affair with Aeneas before he set off to found Latium?
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Diado
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Who were the twins and mythological founders of Rome?
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Remus and Romulus
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Rome is located on what river?
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Tiber
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What event sparked the overthrow of the Etruscan king and the beginning of the RomanRepublic?
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The rape of lucrisha
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At the head of the goverment in the Roman Republic were two _______ who served only for one year and had the power to veto each other?
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Consults
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Roman citizens were divided into 2 groups the members of aristocratic families who could trace descent from famous ancestors called the _______ and the non aristocratic class of freed people (shoes keeper,farmers, and unskilled workers etc...) called the _________.
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Patricians & Palebians
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A rebellion led by the Palebians in the 5th century BC called the struggle of the orders lef to codification of Roman law called the ________
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Twelve Tables
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What was the name of the priest in the Hellenistic that was punished by Minerva after he warned the Trojans to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
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Pandora
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What was the name of the alliance dominated by Athens without Sparta) which pledged to continue the war against Persia?
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Deulian League
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What was the name of the river that Julius Caesar decided to cross in 49 bc with one of his legions after his military victories in Gaul thereby signaling his intention to take Rome by force?
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The rubicon
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Who were the members of the 1st triumvirate?
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Pompey, Crasus, & Julius Caesar
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Who was the general who marched into Rome with 5 of his legions and had himself appointed dictator with no time limits?
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Sulla
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What rich Roman defeated the slave rebellion using his own private military?
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CRASUS
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Who was the famous slave and gladiator who led a large slave rebellion using his own private military?
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Spartucus
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Who were the brothers who tried to reform Roman law by redistributing land to the landless, enacting grain price controls and extending citizenship to all Italians?
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Gracius brothers
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Who provoked the punic war by repeatedly proclaiming that "carthage must be destroyed"?
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Kato the Censor
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In which battle was he defeated by the Roman general scipio (later given the title "Africanus"?
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The battle of Zama
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What carthiginian famously crossed the mountain range w/ an army of elephants?
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Hannibal
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What is the name of the mountain range just north of Italy?
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Alps
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