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77 Cards in this Set
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praetors
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ellected officals who command armies and oversaw legal system
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censors
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officals who regesiter peopel according to there health
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patricians
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members of the powerful aristocratic class
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plebians
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commoners regulary citizen
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the ealry people who evtually became known as romans were called
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latins
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which group was not apart of the roman goverment
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gladiatores
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those who owned latifunddias formed a society class called enties true or false
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false
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the first two elected officals that sought reformes in roman goverment were
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tiberus and gaius gracchus
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which of the following persons was not part of the second triumvirate
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claudius
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what was the name of the orginal set of laws established by the romans
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code of twelve tables
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what roman physician summarized all the medical knowledge of the day into several books
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galen
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what part of the roman army was selcted specifically to protect the headquaters of the commander in chief
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praetorian guard
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after the roman distrcution of the second temple of jeruslaem what portion was left standing
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western wall
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what was the name of the jewish scholars who replaced temple preits in juadsim
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rabbis
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what emporer was born into a poor family and became a general of the roman army
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doicletian
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what roman emperor became a christian
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constantine
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true of false the roman empire was known for violence
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true
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which of the following is not one of the four primary charcteritics of greek art
displaying pride in city states greek value of beauty vast knowledge of nature glorify human body greek values modeeration |
vast knowlegdge of nature
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what does the word philsopher mean
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lover of wisdom
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what is another name for public speaker
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orator
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who is considered the frist greek philospher
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thales of miletus
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what greek philsopher developed formal rules of logic philosophical debate
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parmenides of elea
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what motto di socrates constantly repeat
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know thyself
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who is consider the founder of modern day medicne
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hippocrates
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who is known as the father of history
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sophocles
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in what order did the greek philspohers come
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socrates plato aristole
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true or flase socrates wrote the dialogue named the republic
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false
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true or flase the greek orator demosthenes opposed phillip 2
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true
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at what event was phillip the second assaiansted
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his daughter wedding
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which of the following would not be considered a personalitly trait of alexander the great
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he greatly disliked poetry and music
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true or flase alexander the greats empire stretched from greece to the himalayain mountains
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true
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true or false alexandria became the largest city in alexandria the greats kingdom
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true
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who invinted the compound pulley and lever
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archmedias
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calculated the cirumfrance of the earth
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eratosthenes
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who invinted a steam engine
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hero
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according to chinese legend, who created the univrse in 18,000 years
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pangu
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what was not a contribiter to the shang dynasty
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stringed instruments
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orcale bones
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interpet the god's answers to questions
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why was there an eastern zhou dyansty
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the zhou capital was deystoryed and therefore they had to move their capital
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true or false the zhou dyansasty belived that when rebles or invader overthrew
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false
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asa a result of the zhou dynasty losing its power, what occured in china
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the warring states
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who overthrew the qin dyansty
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liu bang
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the name of the collection of kong fuzi sayings called
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the analects
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true or false kong fuzi is known in the west as conducter
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false
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why did kong fuzi develop his philsiophy of life?
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he wanted to end the potical choas of his time
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who developed daoism
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loazi
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what does the term dao mean
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way of nature
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which of the following is not true regarding chinsese family and socail life
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sons were free to choose their careers
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with what did chinese peasents have to constanly contend againsnt life
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nature and goverment
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which of the following was not a contribution of the chinese
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calculation of the earth orbit
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ancient chinese sailboats were called
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junks
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according to ancient chinese philsophy why would harsh goverment rule not be able to last very long
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dualsim would seek to balance this power out resultining ina dimishing or complete removal of that harsh punishment
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daoism was particaullary appealing to pesants becoming
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it was consired with nature and natural forces whitch so often effected the lofe of a peasent
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what is meant by the term weastern civilaztion
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the civilaztions that began in greece that later spread to the amercian and eruope
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what is acropolios
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a hill or mountian upon which temples or bulidings are ercted
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true or false greek and phoeican tarders introdueced an aplhabet to ther eraly dorian greeks
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true
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what ancient peopel group became the primamary forrunner of modern greeks
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dorians
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which of the following people groups settled primarly in peloponnesus
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myceaneans
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true or false the myceaneans buried their dead in a cone shaped stone chamber
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true
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what is not true about the ways the greek treat there life
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the poor soil limited the framers
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what would be considerd an epic
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a long poem describing herioc actions
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true or false oracles are greek gods that rule each city state
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false
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i am the daughter of zeus
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athena
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who where the helots
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servents of the athenians
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the three primary social groups in sparta wre
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helots half citizens equals
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true or false athens males were inspected at birth to determine wthere or not they woud be fit for milaitry duty
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false
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true or false atheleians ate very little meat
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true
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who was peisitratus
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a weatly aristocrat who seezied power as a tyrant in athens
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who is crieted for brining direct demcoarcy to athens
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cliesthenes
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when greek framers left certian fields empty during the rowing season this is known as
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fallow
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the name of one of the most famous athean artists
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exekias
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during the persians wars why did the persians focus their attacks on athens
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athens help other city sates fight
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true or flase the athenians initalitly defeated the perians at the battle of marthaon
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true
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true or false athens refused to join sparta in defending grecce against the persians
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false
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true or false when xerxes died in 465 b.c. the therat of persian invasion agaisnt greece ennded
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true
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true or false the greeks rebelled against the persians because the leader of the perisans did not accept king mericles
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false
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through what territoers did xerxes army travel on its way towards athens
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thrace and macedonia
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