History Of Civilization Fall Midterm

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Leonidas

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Spartan king who led his 300 troops to stay behind and fight the overwhelming Persian army

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Marco Polo

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Traveled to China for 20 years in search of culture

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King Mentuhotep I

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King of the Eleventh Dynasty

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Chou Dynasty

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China's longest ruling dynasty

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Alexander the Great

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Macedonian king that ruled at the height of the Macedonian Empire; pupil of Aristotle

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Scipio

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Roman commander who defeated Hannibal's army at the Battle of Zama in the Second Punic War

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Julius Caesar

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Roman emperor that won the second civil war by defeating his competitor, Pompey; killed on March 15, 44 B.C.

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Nero

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Successor of Claudius, son of Agrippina, and began first great outbreak of persecution against the New Testament church

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Constantine I

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Legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire by issuing the Edict of Milan

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Homer

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Poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Pericles

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Statesman that brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure

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Octavian (Caesar Augustus)

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Referred to as Caesar Augustus and reigned during the time when Jesus was born

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Trojan Horse

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Ended the Trojan War because the Mycenaean Greeks pretended to leave Troy and left behind a large wooden horse as a "peace offering" and hid soldiers inside that sacked the city that night.

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Draco

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Greek ruler whose laws were so merciless that they were said to have been written in blood. Every offense was punishable by death

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The Battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis

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The three main battles that consisted the Greco-Persian Wars. The Greeks won all three, the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C against Darius, the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was won by the moral factor that Leonidas and his 300 Spartans gave to Greece, and the Battle of Salamis shortly after was won when Themistocles tricked Xerxes into fighting a naval battle in the narrow strait between the mainland and the island of Salamis. The Battle of Salamis was the first major naval battle in history.

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Ziggurats

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Huge temple-towers that the Sumerians constructed

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Nimrod

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A descendant of Noah's son Ham; built the first world empire (the Old Babylonian Empire)

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Hatshepsut

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A female pharaoh and possibly the foster mother of Moses

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The Parthenon

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Recognized as one of the most beautiful structures in the world dedicated to Athena

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The Great Wall of China

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The world's longest wall that was built to bar invaders; sprawls over 4,000 miles