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49 Cards in this Set
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Cuniform writing |
Writing on tablets that started with asseryians |
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Code of hammurabi |
Contained savaghe punishments. Not equal between classes. Contained protections for married women |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
Restore Babylon. Babylonian captivity. Hanging gardens |
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The epic of gilgamesh |
First written in Babylonian times and showed that the great ruler was mortal |
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Hyksos |
Brought middle kingdom to an end. Brought military techniques and weapons to Egyptian culture and warefair |
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Amenhotep the fourth |
Tried to convert Egypt to monotheism and believe he was a god "the sun god" |
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Rosetta stone |
Had three written languages on a tablet |
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Jean Francois Champollion |
Deciphered hieroglyphics from the Roseta Stone |
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Diaspora |
Scattering of the Jews |
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Schliemann |
Discovers Mycenaen remains at Troy |
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Ephors |
Board of magistrates, decides what happens. Higher class |
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Helots |
Lower class. Slaves. Majority of Spartans. |
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Draco |
Severe strict punishment. Debt=slavery |
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Solon |
Ended slavement for debt. Old debts were forgiven. Council of four hundred. Assembly |
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Pisistratus |
Tyrant. Built aquaduct and walls around Athens |
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Cleisthenes |
Ostracism =people were forced to leave city. Tribes |
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Persian wars |
Battle of Marathon Battle of Salamis Battle of Plataea |
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Who won battle of Marathon |
Athenians |
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Who won the battle of Salamis |
Athenians |
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Who won the battle of Plataea |
Spartans |
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Herodotus |
Wrote about the Persian War |
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Thucydides |
Wrote an analysis of wars between Athens and Sparta |
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Democritus |
Set forth the first atomic theory concerning reality |
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Sophists |
Thought grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and essential leadership skills |
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Aristotle |
Left behind a body of writing of knowledge in the ancient world |
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Dionysus |
Wine god |
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Aeschylus |
Employed myths concerning the Greek noble families |
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Sophocles |
Leading writer in tragedies |
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Euripides |
Rebelled against Greek social values. (Sympathetic toward women) |
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Aristophanes |
Leading writer of comedies |
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Pericles |
Helped make Athens the cultural center of Greece. Policy of expansion |
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Delian league |
Protective alliance against the Persian threat |
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First stage Peloponnesian War |
Athens and Sparta became involved in a dispute concerning Corinth |
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What happened at the end od first stage of Peloponnesian war |
Athens was plagued. Perciles died and a truce was made |
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Second stage of Peloponnesian War |
Athens tries to take over sicily |
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What happened at the end of the second stage of Peloponnesian war |
Athens had to takw down their walls and take apart their fleet |
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Alcibiades |
Restarted the second stage peloponnesian war and tried to take over sicily |
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Philip the second |
Took advantage of Greece's weaken state to establish Macedonian domination |
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Demosthenes |
Gave speeches to Greeks warning of Macedonia rise |
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Alexander the great |
King of Macedonia after his father's death (Philip the second). Wanted to conquer the world |
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First punic war |
Rome vs. Carthage over Sicily. Romans won and also took Sardinia and Corsica |
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Cause Second punic war |
War broke out due to Carthaginaian expansion into spain. |
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Carthage General of punic war |
Hannibal |
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Result of second punic war |
Hannibal was defeated by scipio alficanus at battle of zama. Carthage was forced to give up Spain and it's navy |
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Third punic war |
Carthage was captured by some and utterly destroyed |
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Roman general in second punic war |
Scipio africanus |
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Tiberius Gracchus |
Proposed to distribute public lands to dispossessed farmers |
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Gaius Gracchus |
Proposed land reform |
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Battle of actium |
Octavian defeated the forced of Anthony and Cleopatra and became absolute ruler |
