A Date With Mars
____ was the ruler who ordered the river to be scourged and branded, after the bridge he ordered to be built was destroyed.
Who is Xerxes?
The open space used as a marketplace and gathering space for public assemblies in Greek City-States.
What is an Agora?
The legendary founders of Rome.
Who are Romulus & Remus?
This form of government has a king or queen as its head.
What is monarchy?
The beginning of the Hellenistic Age is marked by this ruler's death.
Who is Alexander the Great?
What is the Delian League?
The name for Spartan Slaves.
What are Helots?
Ancient Athens is known as the birthplace for this form of government.
What is democracy?
The general and statesman who played a key role in helping Alexander the Great succeed the throne of his father.
Who is Antipater?
______was the name of the Greek historian who wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
A military superpower, this City-State had strict rules, which included taking boys as young as 7 to study at the Agoge.
What is Sparta?
A large cemetery, common in Etruscan, and later Roman, cities.
What is a necropolis?
_, _, _, and _ are all forms of government that were present in Ancient Greece.
What are democracy, oligarchy, monarchy, and tyranny.
_______ was the name of Alexander the Great's horse.
Who is Bucephalus?
Occuring in the year 486 B.C. this battle has lived on in memory through storytellers and sportsman everywhere.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
____________ was the name of the kind o heavy infantry soldier used by all Greek city-states (commonly associated with Sparta) during the Archaic and Classical Periods.
What is a Hoplite?
This Italian tribe is best known for its artifacts, this culture had a great influence on Rome.
Who are the Etruscans?
Athens, best known for democracy, also had this form of government.
What is oligarchy?
This city was the capital city for the Seleucid Dynasty, but is also familiar due to important events that were recorded in the New Testament.
What is Antioch?
Darius I of Persia invades Greece in this year, sparking the conflict known as the Greco-Persian war.
What is 492 B. C. ?
The building called the _______ not only housed the great statue of Athena but also served as the treasury for the Delian League.
What is the parthenon?
Perhaps best known colloquially from a song in the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, this group of women were taken from their homes to serve as brides for the predominantly male population of Rome.
Who are the Sabine women?
This city-state had all four systems of government we discussed in class.
What is Athens?
This dynasty is best known for its final ruler, who's romances live on though film and stage performances, was situated in the fertile land of Egypt.
What is the Ptolemaic Dynasty?