Ancient Greece
Greek Empire
Ancient Rome
Roman Empire
Great Thinkers
100
The two well-known epic poems written by Homer
What is the Iliad and Odyssey?
100
This empire attacked the Greeks from 499 tp 479 bc
What is Persian?
100
Rome is located on the ____ river
What is Tiber?
100
This part of the government was made up of the wealthy upper class of Rome.
What is the Senate
100
Believed the universe could be defined by numbers and discovered the relationship between three sides of a triangle (his theorem)
Who is Pythagoras?
200
Two most powerful Greek city-states
What are Athens and Sparta?
200
Name one of the two major kings of Persia
What is Darius or Xerxes?
200
Major opponent of the Roman Republic for controlling the Mediterranean
What is Carthage?
200
Became dictator of Rome in 45 bc and was assassinated in 44 bc.
Who is Julius Caesar?
200
Father of modern geometry
Who is Euclid?
300
The Greeks adopted this alphabet for their writing
What is Phoenician?
300
Leader of Athen who established a direct democracy as their form of government
Who is Pericles?
300
Romans built an amazing system of these, some of which are still used today.
What are roads.
300
General who seized Rome in 82 bc and conducted a reign of terror
Who is Lucius Cornelius Sulla?
300
Student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great who wrote Politics
Who is Aristotle?
400
Earliest Greek civilization that began on the island of Crete
What is Minoan?
400
Name of the Greek capital city built by Alexander the Great in Egypt
What is Alexandria?
400
These became a pattern for other governments, even our own constitution and were able to be seen by all the people of Rome.
What are the twelve tables
400
Term for the period of Roman peace that lasted from 96 to 180 ad
What is the Pax Romana?
400
Discovered the value of pi
Who is Archimedes?
500
These people could not be citizens in Greece
What is slaves, women, foreigners
500
Name of the war that pitted Athens against Sparta in a series of battles
What is Peloponnesian War?
500
This Emperor blamed Christians for the burning of Rome and tortured many of them.
Who is Nero.
500
Roman who spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire and wrote much of the New Testament before he was executed.
Who is Paul
500
Taught that God's mercy and forgiveness are available through Him- "the Way"
Who is Jesus?
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