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Whose face "launched 1000 ships?" |
Helen |
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Two types of poetry? |
Epic and lyric |
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The Greek word "polis" means? |
City |
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Who was Priam? |
King of Troy during Trojan War |
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What river gave water to Egypt? |
Nile River |
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What religious idea did Akhenaton develop? |
monotheism |
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Patroclus was killed by? |
Hector |
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The Egyptian sun god was named? |
Ra |
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The Laws of Hammurabi governed what city? |
Babylon |
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What do we call the Greek Female Statues? |
Kore |
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Queen Dido kills herself because? |
She was left alone |
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What news does the messenger from Corinth bring? |
King of Corinth is dead |
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Who translated the Greek and wrote "metamorphosis"? |
Ovid |
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What were the Roman upper class known as? |
Patrician |
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What were the Roman lower class known as? |
Plebian |
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Identify the speaker "mad I may seem to you. Your parents would not think me so." |
Tiresias |
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Who becomes king after Oedipus is exiled? |
Creon |
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The Roman name for Poseidon was? |
Neptune |
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What city was buried by Mt. Vesuvius in 79CE? |
Pompeii, Italy |
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Aqueducts brought what into Roman cities? |
Water |
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Who crossed the Rubicon? |
Julius Caesar |
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What is the most famous neolithic monument? |
Stonehenge |
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What is Mesopotamia? |
Land between river |
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What was the type of writing that the Babylonians invented? |
cuneiform |
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The Babylonians invented a law called? |
Law of Hammurabi |
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Who is Gilgamesh? |
Sumerian King, Ruled Uruk Ca, 2700 BCE |
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Who is Enkidu? |
Wild man |
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Who is Ishtar? |
Goddess of Love |
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Who is Aten Ra? |
Sun God |
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Who is Osiris? |
King of Egypt aka the Pharaoh |
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Who is Horus? |
Son of Osiris |
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Who is Tutankhamen (King Tut)? |
King of Egypt during the 18th dynasty |
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What is the name of King Tut's wife? |
Nefertitti |
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Who found the Tomb of King Tut? |
Howard Carter |
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Big tombs belonging to the pharaohs is known as what? |
Pyramids |
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How long did it take to build the Pyramids? |
About 20 years |
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What are the Minoans? |
People of the Minoan |
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Who tracked/killed the Minotaur? |
Theseus |
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What was the mascots for the Minoans? |
Bull |
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Who is Heinrich Schilemann? |
He unearthed tomb of Agamemnon |
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Define Kouros? |
Life size figurative sculpture |
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Define Kore? |
Female life size structure |
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what is the Doric of the temple? |
Thick column style |
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What is the capital of the temple? |
head of the column |
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What is the Ionic of the temple? |
Most thin column |
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Where was democracy born? |
Athens
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Only who can vote? |
Men |
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What is Pericles? |
Life size sculpture from the shoulder up |
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What is the Parthenon? |
Church temple belonging to Athena |
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Who is Socrates? |
Well known philosopher throughout Greece. Nothing but trouble, died by lethal injection |
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Who is Plato and what book did he write? |
Socrates best student, wrote the Republic |
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Who is Aristotle and what did he write about? |
Plato's most gifted pupil, wrote a greek drama |
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Who is Alexander the Great? |
King of Macedon who created the largest Roman Empire in Ancient World |
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Who invented the theater in Athens? |
Greeks |
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Required to write 3 related plays also known as? |
Trilogy |
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Catullus is Rome's first great what? |
First great lyric poet |
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What poem did Catullus write? |
Lesbia |
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Who believed that atoms are solids and splits atoms? |
Lucretius |
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Julius Caesar was scheduled to do a speech on March 15th but? |
He was killed |
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Who killed Julius Caesar? |
His best friend Brutus stabbed him |
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What is Pompeii? |
Roman Cultural City |
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Who is Virgil? And what did he write? |
Most famous epic poet, wrote Aeneid
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What is Pantheon? |
Church temple belonging to the god/goddess |
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Who is Constantine? |
Roman emperor |
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Who is Augustus? |
Best ruler Rome ever had |
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What did the Indus Valley people mainly focused on? |
Cotton |
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What is the problem with growing cotton? |
destroys soils |
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Who conquered the most of India? |
The Aryans |
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What language did the Aryans invent? |
Sancrit |
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What system did the Aryans make? |
The caste system |
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What is the caste system? |
A social structure in which classes are determined by heredity |
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Who is Agni? |
God of Fire |
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What is reincarnation? |
after you die, your soul lives in another life |
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What is Karma? |
Total accumulation of good and evil in your soul from this life and all of past life |
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What is Maya? |
Evil allusion, things are not what they appear to be |
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What is Brahma? |
Over soul, cosmic souls, the souls of soul |
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Who is Shiva? |
The god of birth and the god of death and creativity |
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Who is Siddhartha? |
Buddha |
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What is the Qin Dynasty? |
First unified, multinational power centralized state in Chinese history |
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The army of ______ are _________ clay life size warriors? |
Shihuangdi/8000 |
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What are the 5 relationships of Confucius? |
Father to son, elder brother to younger, husband to wife, elder to jr, ruler to subject |
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Who created Taoism? |
Lao Tzu |
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What is Taoism? |
Tao is invisible, feel it not see, go with the flow |
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What is Daoism? |
simple honest life and not interfering with the court of natural events |
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Who is Yahweh? |
National god of the ancient kingdoms of Israel, Sumeria and Judea |
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What did the Hebrew tribe believe? |
Believed that Yahweh was their personal god |
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Who is Exodus? |
Group of people going somewhere at the same time Old Testament |
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Who blows up the first temple of Ancient Israel? |
Babylon |
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What was the name of the second temple after the first temple blew up? |
second temple |
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Who were the Hebrew? |
Nomadic tribal people |
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What is Judea? |
Jews |
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What did the Roman Law require everyone to do? |
Worship the Roman God |
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What is Covenant? |
Legally binding contract |
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What does Secct mean? |
Cult |
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What is the Mosaic? |
picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of hard material such as stone, tile and glass |
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Who is Mithra? |
Protector of truth, guardian of cattle, the harvest and waters |
