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100
This area of a Greek city contained public public temple space and was normally located on a hill.
What is the acropolis?
100
This man brought Christianity to the forefront of the Roman Empire.
What is Constantine?
100
This lasted from 27 BC to 180 AD and was a prosperous time for the Roman Empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
100
These are the three most influential philosophers of ancient Greece.
Who are Plato, Socrates and Aristotle?
100
This man was the first Greek historian.
Who is Herodotus?
200
In terms of population, this was the dominant group in the Roman Republic.
What are plebs?
200
This was the first emperor of the Roman Empire.
Who is Augustus?
200
This 313 AD document granted religious freedom to the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
200
These are two great works written by Homer.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
200
This began around 3000 BC in many parts of the world.
What is the Bronze Age?
300
This man led Athens during the beginning of the Peloponnesian War and is largely responsible for the rebuilding of the Agora.
Who is Pericles?
300
This Roman emperor is widely regarded as being insane and has done things that we can't talk about in a 9th grade class.
Who is Caligula?
300
Give the sides for the following wars: Persian Peloponnesian Punic
Persia v Greece Athens v Sparta Carthage v Rome
300
This is the name of the system that brought water into Rome.
What are aqueducts?
300
These are the 4 Cradles of Civilization.
Mesopotamia, Nile River Valley, Indus River Valley and Yellow and Chang Rivers.
400
This group of people were persecuted (though not as badly as was once thought) for their religious beliefs, as evidenced in the Pliny-Trajan correspondence.
Who are the Christians?
400
This man was not an emperor of Rome. He committed suicide along with his Egyptian lover Cleopatra while being chased down by Octavian.
Who is Marc Antony?
400
These are the members of the first triumvirate.
Who are Caesar, Pompey and Crassus?
400
This event saw many people of Israel forced to leave their homes after the destruction of their temple by the Romans.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
400
This religion contains the vedas, moksha and Brahmin.
What Hinduism?
500
This man (birth date unknown) is the spiritual leader of the Christians, leaving a significant legacy upon the modern world.
Who is Jesus the Christ?
500
This man has been taken hostage by pirates, conquered lands in Gaul (France), crossed the Rubicon into Rome with his army, was a member of the first triumvirate and was stabbed to death by members of the senate and his buddy Brutus.
Who is Julius Caesar?
500
These three city-states were all once the hegemon of Greece.
What are Athens, Sparta, Thebes and Macedonia?
500
These were the two years in which the Jewish temple was destroyed (once rebuilt, the other time it was not).
What is 586 BC (Chaldeans) and 70 AD (Romans)?
500
"What is Christianity" was answered at this meeting.
What is the Nicaea Council (325)?
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