Egypt
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Roman history
Romans, Germans, and Gauls
100

The beginning of Ptolemaic Egypt vs the end

What was the Greeks and Egyptians started out separated very carefully but eventually the border between the 2 became porous?

100

Why Egyptians would want to be seen as Egyptian

What is this was especially the women and they could get better treatment in Egyptian than in Greek divorce courts, but shortly after 150 they could still be seen as Greek for tax purposes?

100

Most important export from Egypt to Greece and Rome

What was Egyptian religion, which was used through taking aspects of it and mixing it into Roman life, for example, drawing a picture of Anubis in a centurion's outfit?

100

Gallic Wars

What was from 58-50 BC and happened because there had been tension btwn the Romans and Gauls for a while and Caesar wanted to win glory for himself and so he decided to attack the Gauls, which were threatening Romans and since he was the governor of the province of Gaul?

100

Features repeatedly occurring in artistic representation of Gauls by both Romans and Gauls

What are the unique collars around their necks called torques; their spiky, curly hair; and mustaches?

200

Greekness vs. Egyptianness

What eventually became by 2nd century BC based no someone's name and language and clothing?

200

Intermarriage usually consisting of

What was the man was a noble Greek officer or official and the woman the daughter of a powerful Egyptian official?

200

Pericles' citizenship law

What was in 451 BC and changed the requirements for citizenship from only having to have one Athenian citizen parent to having to have two Athenian citizen parents?

200

Results of Punic Wars

What were Carthage lost control of Sicily after the Romans finally got the better of them on the sea (1st Punic War), Carthage lost Spain and after being invaded by Scipio and losing at Zama had to surrender its navy and pay an indemnity (2nd Punic War), and Carthage was totally sacked and destroyed by another Scipio (3rd Punic War)?
300

Nickname for those who were Egyptian ethnically but Greek for tax purposes

Who were tax Hellenes?

300

Polyonymy

What was a person's having two separate, distinct names for two different types of occasions?

300

The foci of Pericles' funeral oration

What was the Athenian way of life, the national character, common Athenian values and character traits (free government, living in freedom, being refined and knowledgeable without extravagance or effeminacy) that the Spartans did not have?
300
Years of Punic Wars
What were 264-241 (1st Punic War), 218-201 (2nd Punic War), and 149-146 (3rd Punic War)?
400

Results of exempting more and more Egyptians from the "non-Greek" tax

What were fewer and fewer people, mostly in the countryside, paying more and more taxes, the Greeks were essentially swapping revenue for satisfaction, and more and more people just moved into these jobs but kept their Egyptian name and language as the border between the 2 cultures got more and more porous?

400

Earliest case of intermarriage between Greeks and Egyptians 

When was 250 BC?

400

One strike against genetic/kinship model

What was in the Aeschylus play, the Athenian queen did not even recognize her own son?

400

Rome time periods

What were the Monarchy (753-509 BC), Republic (509-31 BC), and Empire (31 BC-end of Roman Empire)?

400

Interpretatio Romana

What has as an ex. what Caesar does w/ Celts and Gauls, saying that their gods are basically the same as Roman gods; also done by the Romans in Britain about British gods?

500

Exemptions from "non-Greek" tax

Who were at first the Greeks and Persians in Egypt then later on the "necessary" job holders (policemen, teachers, doctors, laundry people, priests, brewers) and the entertainment people, who were "necessary" to Greek culture (coaches, certain types of artists, athletic victors)?

500

152 BC

What was roughly around when Egyptians who were "Greek" didn't even have to present their name as proof that they were "Greek," as the Greeks were getting more flexible than ever on whether an individual was Greek or not?

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