Who’s Who?
He wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The forces of Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.
What is 31 BC?
All of history is centered/focused around this event.
(Hint: BC and AD)
What is the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ?
This important historical moment occurred because Augustus called for a census of the empire so that taxes might be levied and collected more fairly.
What is Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem to be registered?
They were slaves or conquered people in Sparta.
What are helots?
They made up the First Triumvirate.
Bonus: Who made up the Second Triumvirate?
Who were Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus?
Bonus: Octavian (Caesar Augustus), Marc Antony, and Lepidus.
Caesar was assassinated in this year.
Bonus: What day and month did this happen on?
What happened in 44 BC?
Bonus: March 15
He taught in the grove of Academus; thus his school is called the Academy, which continued to function for 100s of years after his death.
Who is Plato?
This emperor was given many titles and positions, including consul, imperator, pontifex maximus (chief priest, a position given him in 12 BC), and “Father of His Country” (given in 2 BC with the suggestion that Roman history started over with him).
Who is Augustus?
A portion of Greek history that historians know little about.
What is the Dark Ages?
He ushered in the Pax Romana (also include what the Pax Romana is).
Who is Augustus Caesar? What the years of peace and prosperity in Rome?
The distinct history of Rome began after the Latins overthrew Etruscan rule.
What is 509 BC?
The origin of English words democracy, monarchy, philosophy, and geography.
What is Greek?
Three political bodies/offices in the early Roman Republic.
What are the Consuls, Assembly, and Senate?
According to legend, a messenger ran about 25 miles to Athens from this city to carry the news, warning the citizens of a possible revenge attack. The runner announced his message and then fell dead.
What is Marathon?
He was the most important leader of Athens during its period of greatest power and influence as a soldier, statesman, orator, politician, and patron of the arts.
Who is Pericles?
Athens adopted a Democracy form of government.
What is 500 BC?
Hippocrates believed that health was maintained by a balance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile, which led to centuries of this being performed on patients causing them to be weak and even death.
What is bleeding of patients?
A complete codification of Roman laws, legal principles, and commentaries took place in the 500s AD with this.
What is the Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”)?
The Parthenon was dedicated to the city’s patron goddess.
Who is Athena?
He was regarded as one of the greatest thinkers, writers, and orators that Rome produced.
Who is Cicero?
Alexander the Great died of a fever at age 33 and was buried in Babylon.
What is 323 BC?
The abandoned twins who were rescued and nursed by a she-wolf is a popular myth attributed to how Rome began.
Bonus: Which twin killed the other?
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Bonus: Romulus killed Remus
A champion of the poor, who wanted to limit the amount of land one could own and give excess land to the poor, was elected consul in 133 BC. The Senate disagreed which led to his assassination.
Who was Tiberius Gracchus?
Athens had none of this, so it was dumped into the street, which caused a foul smell and a the greater likelihood of disease.
What is garbage disposal or sewer systems?