Lifepac Grade 10 Unit 2 History And Geography Study Cards

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The northwest border of India is:

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Kither Range and the Sulaiman Range

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The northeast border of India is:

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the Himalayas

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The west border of India is:

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the Arabian Sea

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The east border of India is:

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the Bay of Bongal

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The south border of India is:

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the Indian Ocean

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3 rivers of India are:

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Ganges, Krishna River, and the Narbada River

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The civilization that probably lasted from 2200 to 1300 B.C. was the

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Indus

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The chief cities of the Indus civilization were

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Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa

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The Indus civilization carried on trade between the Indus valley and

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Sumer

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The Indus people had all of the trappings of civilization except

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the printing press

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From about 1500 to 900 B.C., India was invaded by __________ peoples from the Caucasus area.

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Aryan

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The language of ancient India is called

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sanskrit

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The Indo-Aryans developed a system that still exists today, called the ________ system.

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caste

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What was an "untouchable"?

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People outside the caste system

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Who crossed into India in 326 B.C.?

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Alexander the Great

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From 321 B.C. to 185 B.C., which dynasty ruled India?

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The Mauryan Dynasty

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How did the Bactrians lose power?

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Nomadic tribes had begun to invade India from central Asia

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The oldest Sanskrit literature were the

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Vedas

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The Vedas were a kind of ______ literature

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wisdom

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Commentaries upon the Vedas were the

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Upanishads

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The Upanishads have been compared to the Greek epics of

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Homer

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Is Hinduism a development of the thought of the Vedas and Upanishads?

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yes

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what is pantheism

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the belief that everything is God

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Where does the Hindu belief in reincarnation come from?

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Upanishads

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Is Buddhism athiestic?

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yes

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What're the 4 Noble Truths of Buddha

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The truth of pain, the truth of the cause of pain, the truth of cessation of pain, and the truth of the way that leads to the cessation of pain

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What're 2 major rivers of ancient China?

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Yangtze, and Hwang Ho

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Approximately when does China's recorded history begin?

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1500 B.C.

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What dynasty overthrew the Shang?

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the Chou Dynasty

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Who was the most significant Han emperor?

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Wu Ti

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What was Pax Sinica?

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200 year period of peace

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How did emperor Shih Huang Ti attempt to protect his empire against Asian invaders?

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the Great Wall of China

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What metal was used primarily in Chinese art?

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bronze

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Which dynasty ruled during the "Era of Contending States"?

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the Chou Dynasty

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The most influential Chinese philosopher was

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Confucius

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Confucius believed in a polite manner observed among members of the aristocracy called

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li

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Mencius, a follower of Confucius, believed the way to treat a bad ruler was to

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rebel

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Chinese thinkers were not metaphysicians like their Greek and Indian counterparts; they were _________ philosophers

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social

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Confucius believed that government should be like a ___ to his family

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father

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Taoists believed men should be in harmony with the laws of

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nature

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The first dictionary and a solar calender were accomplishments of the _____ dyansty

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Han

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The young aristocrat who was stuck by the misery of the poor and founded a new religion in India was

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Gautama Buddha

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subcontinent

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India

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Mohenjo-Daro

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ancient Indus city

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Sanskrit

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early language of India

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Vedas

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oldest Sanskrit literature

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Buddha

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aristocrat who pitied the poor

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reincarnation

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successive lives

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pantheism

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everything is god

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Upanishads

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resembled Greek epics

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Great Wall

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protected China against invaders

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Taoism

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harmony with nature

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The Ganges and the Indus are 2 main rivers of

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India

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Brahams, Vaisyas, and Sudras are 3 main parts of the _________ system

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Cante

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The first Chinese dynasty was the _______ dynasty

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Shang

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The language of ancient India was

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Sanskrit

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Indian pantheism claimed that everything was ______

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God

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Reincarnation was part of the ______ religion

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Hindu

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The calender, as we know it today, was first developed by the

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Chinese

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The Himilayas are ____________ that isolate India from its neighbors

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mountains

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Mencius was a follower of _____-

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Confucius

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Modern theosophy is derived from _______ thought

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Hindu

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Is Burma 1 of the countries that borders India?

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yes

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The Caste system was one of 3 "____________" of India society

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pillars

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Why is Buddhism essentially an atheistic religion?

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Because it doesn't require the belief of a god

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What are 2 examples of Buddha's "Truth of pain"?

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death and birth

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What is Chinese history divided into?

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dynasties

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What was the Pax Sinica in China?

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200 year period of peace

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How are the Chinese best remembered for their use of bronze?

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their art

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The early history of the Greek people took place on the shores of the ________ sea

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Aegean

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Greeks turned early to fishing and commerce because the Greek soil was too ______ to farm

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rocky

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Greek civilization probably began on the island of

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Crete

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The first Greek capital was located at

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Knossos

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Knossos was excavated in the twentieth century by the English archaeologist _________

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Sir Arthur Evans

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The massive ruins on Knossos were the remains of the palace of

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King Minos

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Clay tablets found on Crete indicate a conquest of the island around 1500 B.C. by invaders from

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Mycenae

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The Trojan War was best described by the Greek poet

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Homer

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Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist, excavated ancient

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Troy

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Troy was located at the straits known as the

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Hellespont

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According to Homer, Troy was conquered through a trick involving a

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wooden horse

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The period in Greece from around 1100 to 750 B.C. was one of

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invasions or migrations

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The 2 most important Greek city-states between 700 and 500 B.C. were _________ and _________

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Athens and Sparta

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2 causes for Greek colonization and expansion throughout the Mediterranean were _________ and ________

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overpopulation and the fact that Greece was rocky

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Southern Italy and the island of Sicily once contained so many Greeks they were called

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Great Greece

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Spartans had native serfs which they called

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helots

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In Sparta, all authority came not from God, but from the

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state

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The 3 primary virtues of Spartan youth were

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self-control, modesty, and strict obedience

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2 modern states characterized by Spartan suppression of the individual have been

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Nazi Germany and Russia

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At 1 time, Greece had colonies in

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Spain, Southern Italy, and Sicily

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In Greek times, the modern city of Istanbul was called

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Byzantium

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The greatest purely mental exercise of Spartan youths was

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memorization

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Unlike Spartans, the Christian's authority comes from

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God

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Which Green city-state was Sparta's greatest rival

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Athens

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Who was Homer?

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a Greek poet

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What was an administrator called who was appointed by the Athens Council?

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archon

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What kind of powers was Solon given to control the arguing factors of Athens?

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dictatorial

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From whom did the Ionians learn to mint coins?

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Lydia

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Why was Athens a limited democracy?

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Not a lot of people were eligible to vote; not everyone were citizens

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What was the purpose of an ostracon?

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To have the people vote on someone they wanted banished and if more than 6,000 citizens voted, the person was banished for 10 years

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What was a despot?

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A person with absolute power who came to power outside the constitutional means

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What was the most important contribution of Cleisthenes?

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His change and advancement of democracy

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What was the contribution of Anaximander?

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Made the first world map

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Marathon

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humiliating Persian defeat

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Bosporous

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narrow slit of water between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea

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Xerxes

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Persian leader

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Cyrus

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ruled the Medo-Persian empire

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Persians burned

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Athens

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Ephialtes

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Greek traitor

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Salamis

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Athenian naval victory

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The ruler over the "Golden Age" of Athens was

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Pericles

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Pericles was descended from the family of

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Cleisthenes

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One feature of the Golden Age was energetic

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commerce

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Built on the Acropolis in Athens, the famed Parthenon was used as a

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temple to the goddess Athena

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2 famous Athenian playwrights were

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Aeschylus and Aristophanes

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Herodotus and Thucydides wrote ___________ that are still read today

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histories

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The attitude of Athenians toward themselves and their empire can be described as one of

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arrogance

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Athens' chief commercial and cultural rival was

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Corinth

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The Peloponnesian War began as a commercial rivalry between Athens and

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Corinth

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In an attempt to strengthen its western trade routes, Corinth attacked

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Corcyra

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While under siege, Athens was further seriously weakened by

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plague

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Pericles died of

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disease

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Demosthenes was a

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military leader

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The philosopher Socrates fate was to be executed for

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his beliefs

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Socrates died by

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drinking poison

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At Syracuse, the Athenian navy was

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destroyed

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The result of Pericles' death was

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a political vacuum

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During the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians massacred the men of

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Melos

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Years of fighting in the Peloponnesian War weakened the ____ states

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Greek

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_______ was a strong state located north of Greece

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Macedonia

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Philip of Macedonia was an admirer of ______ culture

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Greek

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Was Philip's Greek strategy to march immediately into Greece and proclaim himself its dictator?

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no

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__________ was a great Greek orator

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Demosthenes

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Philip of Macedonia was finally able to defeat the ____ states and bring them under his control

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Greek

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At the time of his assassination, Philip of Macedonia was planning to invade _____

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Persia

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List some of the qualities and accomplishments of Alexander the great

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gifted thinker, gifted soldier, gifted athlete, outstanding conqueror

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Name the country where Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria and state why the city was destined to be outstanding

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In Egypt he established Alexandria. It was destined to be outstanding because of its intellectual qualities.

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Describe the goal of Alexander the Great

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He wanted to fuse East and West into an empire

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What led to Alexander the great's early death?

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heavy eating and drinking

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Briefly describe the fate of Alexander the Great's empire

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it was divided into 3 parts

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Give the dates of the Hellenistic period

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323 B.C. until 31 B.C.

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Name the culture that Alexander the Great adopted and that most influenced him

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Greek

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Name the culture that rose from the ruins of ancient Greece

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Rome

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Every 4 years Greek athletes met near the west coast of Peloponnesus for the

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Olympic Games

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The apostle Paul used some of the terminology of Greek games in his

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Epistles

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From Homer to about 330 B.C. is known as the ___________ period in Greece

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Classical

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Generations down to our own time have been influenced by Greek philosophers and the ________ heritage

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Judeo-Christian

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Thales, the Greek astronomer, concluded that everything that exists comes ultimately from

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water

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The Greek mathematician whose name is still used for a geometric theorem was

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Pythagoras

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The most distinguished pupil of Socrates was

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Plato

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The Socratic method was a form of teaching based on

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asking questions

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Plato wrote a utopian treatise called the

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Republic

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The term utopian refers to

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an ideal society

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Plato believed an ideal society would be governed by

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a philosopher-king

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Plato's finest student was the philosopher

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Aristotle

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The "dark ages" of Greece were marked by repeated

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migrations or invasions

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Athens and Sparta can best be described as

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city-states

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At one time Greece did not have a colony in

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France

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Representative democracy as we know it in many countries today had its origins in

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Athens

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A battle considered decisive in the history of Europe, in which the Persians were defeated by an Athenian force only half their number, was fought at

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The Bay of Marathon

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During the "Golden Age" of Athens it was ruled over by a leader named

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Pericles

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The result of the Peloponnesian War was that Athens came under the control of

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Sparta

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During the Peloponnesian War the Athenian navy was destroyed at the battle of

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Syracuse

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Who was the great Greek orator

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Demosthenes

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Thales, the astronomer, concluded that everything existed frm water. We know he was wrong but why is it important anyway

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Because of his way of reasoning

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What was the concept developed by Democritis

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the atom

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The 3 historical divisions of the Roman empire are

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Pre-Republic, Republic, and Empire

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2 brothers who, according to legend, are responsible for the founding of Rome were

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Romulus and Remus

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500 years before Christ, Rome was controlled by neighboring

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Etruscans

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The life style of ancient Romans centered around the

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family

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Romans were monogamous, meaning that a man married only

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one woman

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Republican Rome began with a revolt against the

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Etruscans

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Patricians in Rome were members of the ___ class

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upper

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The 12 tables were a written set of

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laws

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Those who struggled longest and hardest before winning political equality in Rome were the

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plebeians

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a pyrrhic victory is one that

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costs the winner too much

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the number of Punic Wars was

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3

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Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars was

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carthage

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the general who was famous for his march into Italy with an army and a company of elephants was

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Hannibal

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Latifundia were

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large estates

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Tiberius Gracchus was

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a reformer

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"bread and circuses" is a term still used to refer to a system of public

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handouts

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Before he became dictator of rome, Julius Caesar was a famous

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soldier

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Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, which was

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March 15

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Caesar was killed because of his belief in

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perpetual dictatorship

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Rome was the greatest empire since, and rose from the ashes of,

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Greece

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Rome borrowed much of its architecture from

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Greece

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Circuses and bloody games were held in the Roman

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colosseum

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the work of the Senate was held in the ________ in Rome

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Forum

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Romans learned to carry huge amounts of water by building

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aqueducts

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the famous poem, the Aenead was written by

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Virgil

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the city of Alexandria was famous for being the cultural and _____________ center during the Roman era

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intellectual

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__________ moved the Roman capital to Byzantium calling it _____________

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Constantine and Constantinople

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built a wall in northern England

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Hadrian

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wrote Meditations

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Marcus Aurelius

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193 to 285

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time of anarchy

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last man to rule a Roman empire

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Theodosius I

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After Caesar's death, Rome was ruled by Octavian and

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Mark Antony

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Augustus died in the year A.D.

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14

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The emperor who was accused of setting Rome on fire was

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Nero

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At the height of trade in the empire, materials were bought from __________ and _________

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China and India

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Diocletian tried to restore order to the empire during his reign from 284-_______

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305

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Pax Romana refers to an extraordinary 200 yeras of

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peace

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Literature declined after the death of

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Augustus

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the original basis of the legal systems today is

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Roman law

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French, Italian, and Spanish languages and many English words are based upon the ___________ language

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Latin

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3 conditions that led to a decline in the Roman empire after A.D. 180 were

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leadership dispute, decline in trade hurt the economy, mercenaries hired

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What was the most significant event of the Roman period

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the birth, life and death of Jesus Christ

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Jesus was born during the reign of

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Augustus Caeser

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how much was written about the boyhood of Jesus?

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not much

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The ministry of Jesus lasted only _ years

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3

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______ was the name of the place where Jesus was crucified

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Golgotha

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Paul took the Gospel to as far as ____ and _____

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Greece and Rome

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Paul was executed by emperor

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Nero

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The last of the apostles to die was

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John

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2 conditions in the empire that helped early Christians to spread the Gospel were

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Trade routes and highway systems

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Rome's attitude toward Christians up to the time of Nero was

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Tolerant

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He first major persecution was ordered by

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Emperor Decius

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The Arians rejected the doctrine of the ________ and taught that Christ and the Father were not of the same essence or nature

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Trinity

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In response to the false teaching of the Arians, Emperor ________ assembled a Council in A.D. 325 to settle the matter and produced the _______ Creed

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Constantine and Nicene

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A ___________ is an archbishop who ruled a province of the Roman. Church

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Metropolitan

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By _____, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire

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381

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A.D. 313

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Edict of Milan

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St. Jerome

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The Vulgate

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Heresy denying Christ's divinity

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Arianism

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father of Christian monasticism

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Anthony of Egypt

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Accused Christians of burning Rome

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Nero

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Compared to what we know about ancient India, little is known about early ____

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China

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The ______ produced the first dictionary

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Chinese

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___________ was the lat emperor to rule a united empire

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Theodosius I

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First Greek capital

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Knossos

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Burning of Rome in A.D. 64

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Nero

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Tried to revive Christian persecution

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Julian

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Spartan serfs

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Helots

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Built aqueducts and walls

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Hadrian

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Spartan enemy

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Athens

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Issued Edict of Milan

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Constantine

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Established early democracy

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Cleisthenes

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Used for banishment

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Ostracon

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The Council of Nicaea was in

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A.D. 325

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Primary Spartan virtue

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Strict obedience

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Persian defeat changed history

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Marathon

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Early name for istanbul

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Byzantium

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When was the Edict of Milan

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A.D. 313

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Latin vulgate

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St. Jerome

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One of the charges that led to the execution of Socrates was that he corrupted the ______ of Athens

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Youth

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The son of Philip of Macedonia was

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Alexander the Great

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People living on the site of Rome 700 years before Christ were called

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Latins

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The upper class in Rome were the

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Patricians

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The lower class in Rome were the

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Plebeians

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He Romans borrowed much of their culture from the

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Greeks

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The author of the Aenead was

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Virgil

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Rome fought 3 wars against Carthage for commercial supremacy, known as the _____ wars

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Punic

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The Carthaginian General who crossed the Alps into Italy with an army and elephants was

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Hannibal

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Julius Caeser was assassinated because he wanted to be perpetual

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Dictator

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St. Anthony of Egypt was sometimes called

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The father of monasticism

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Diocletian tried to restore the economy with ________ and _______

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Taxation and price control

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The monastic orders became known as _____ because they followed a rule

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Regular clergies

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He Arians rejected the doctrine of the Trinity and taught that Christ

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And the Father were not of the sam essence or nature

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Mercenaries are soldiers

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That served in foreign places for money

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A metropolitan is

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An archbishop that watched a providence in Rome

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The Latin vulgate was

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A Greek and Hebrew translation of the Bible

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By 133 B.c. Corruption in Rome was widespread, and the time was ripe for a reformer whose name name was

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Tiberius Gracchus

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One of the accomplishments of Julius Caesar was the establishment of a _____ that is still in use

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Calendar

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March 15 marks the date of the assassination of

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Julius Caesar

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A major step toward democracy in Rome was the writing down of the laws on what was known as the

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Twelve tables

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The most important event of the roman period was the

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Life and death of Christ

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During the Great Galilean Ministry, Jesus resided at

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Capernaum

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Jesus offered Himself to the Jews as their

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Messiah

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What was the middle division of the 3 historical divisions of the roman emoire

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Republic

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What is a Pyrrhic victory

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A victory that costs the winner greatly

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What was the Nicene creed

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It was a formal declaration that the trinity consisted of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

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What is St. basil known for?

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For spreading the Gospel to the East