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Ancient Greece
Greek Empire
Ancient Rome
Roman Empire
Greek 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
Term for the leadership of government by three people with equal power
What is a triumvirate?
100
Believed the universe could be defined by numbers and discovered the relationship between three sides of a triangle
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
Military of leader for Carthage who attacked Rome during the Punic Wars
Who is Hannibal?
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
Battle during which Rome invaded and defeated Carthage
What is the Battle of Zama?
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
Location of major battle loss for Athens against the Persians
What is Thermopylae?
500
Name of the war that pitted Athens against Sparta in a series of battles
What is Peloponnesian War?
500
Italian people group who built the city of Rome
What is Etruscans?
500
Invaders who sacked Rome in 410 ad
What is the Visigoths?
500
Calculated the circumference of the Earth
Who is Eratosthenes?