Greek Images and People
Greek Conflicts and Conquest
Athens' Golden Age and Pax Romana
Julius Caesar
Fall of the Roman Empire
100
The Parthenon
100
Macedonia is in this direction, relative to Greece
North
100
The quadrennial (every 4 years) athletic event got its start in Athens almost 3,000 years ago
The Olympics
100
Caesar was killed on March 15th, also known as this
Ides of March
100
The Huns, led by this man, terrorized the Italian Peninsula
Attila
200
The Greek goddess of war
Athena
200
The major battle of the First Persian Invasion, known for Pheidippides' journey from Athens to Sparta
Battle of Marathon
200
Pax Romana is Latin for this.
Roman Peace
200
Caesar had an affair and a child with this foreign woman
Cleopatra
200
This group was the most prominent of the Germanic tribes
Visigoths
300
The first historian, known for documenting the Persian War
Herodotus
300
This city was built by Alexander the Great to be a world center of culture and learning (City and country)
Alexandria, Egypt
300
The two common genres of Greek theatre
Tragedy and Comedy
300
Caesar, Crassus, and this man made up the first triumvirate.
Pompey
300
Economically, the empire was suffering from inflation and what else?
High taxes
400
Corinthian Column
400
300 brave Spartans held off the Persians for 3 days, but eventually died. The only battle lost in the Persian Wars.
Battle of Thermopylae
400
People benefited from this policy of giving out food and holding games
Bread and Circus
400
Caesar's nephew/adopted son who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire
Octavian/Augustus
400
This emperor issued the Edict of Milan
Constantine
500
He was known for his work in medicine and wrote an oath doctors still take today
Hippocrates
500
Feeling threatened by Athens' rise to power, the Spartans formed this alliance
Peloponnesian League
500
In bringing together east and west, Alexander the Great created a new culture known by this name.
Hellenistic Culture
500
Caesar's longest lasting reform was the introduction of a new one of these
Calendar (Julian Calendar)
500
This emperor split the Roman Empire into two halves
Diocletian