Persian Empire
The Persian Empire fell to this historical conqueror.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The founder of the Macedonian Empire.
Who is Philip the II of Macedon?
The two social classes of the Republic.
What are patricians and plebeians?
The religious leader whose ideas regarding equality in the eyes of God undermined the Roman Empire, but had taken over the majority of Romans by the end of the 4th century.
Who is Jesus of Nazareth?
A document or source that experienced or witnessed the historical event.
What is a primary source?
From Susa to Sardis.
What were the major start and finish lines of the Royal Road?
The teacher of Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The civilization that conquered and ruled the Romans until 509 BCE.
Who are the Etruscans?
The reason why many Roman soldiers became poorer as they fought for the Roman Republic.
Possible answers: What are the concept of citizen soldier -- fighting without pay, mounting debts during war years, losing land to confiscating and debt while at war....
Greek-like in nature; it represents the influence of the Ancient Greeks on the rest of the Mediterranean world.
What is Hellenistic?
This Persian ruler freed the Jews from Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The extent of the Macedonian Conquest both East and South.
What are India (the Indus River, modern-day Pakistan) and Egypt?
The leader of the Carthaginians during the 2nd Punic War and his overall strategy to defeat the Romans (which nearly worked).
Who is Hannibal and what is attacking from the North through the Alps?
The reason many historians attribute the end of the republic to the victory of Julius Caesar in the civil war that pitted him against Pompey.
The control of the Republic by the person in charge of the most legions and the position of "dictator for life."
The cause of inflation in the Roman Empire.
What is diluting the content of silver and gold in coinage?
The name and number of the administrative districts created by Darius the Great.
What are satrapies and 20?
The fate of the Macedonian Empire upon the death of Alexander the Great?
What are warfare and tension resulting in three kingdoms headed by Alexander's generals:
Ptolemy - Egypt
Antigonus - Greater Macedonia
Seleucus - The Middle East and Persia
The major results of the 2nd Punic War.
When was Carthage reduced to a small city-state, with its army and navy destroyed and all colonies and possessions confiscated by the Romans? The Romans were then the dominate force in the Western Mediterranean.
The ruler who began this period and name given to the 200 years without internal war or strife in the Roman Empire.
Who is Octavian/Augustus Caesar and what is the Pax Romana?
When the language, customs, religious ideas, foods, entertainment, political ideas etc. of one civilization highly influence other civilizations?
What is cultural hegemony?
This religious founder and his religion believed that life was a battle between the forces of good and evil.
Who is Zoroaster and what is Zoroastrianism?
What is Gaugamela and who is Darius III?
As a result of the Punic Wars, this branch of the Roman government grew powerful and their members built these type of large Roman estates.
What is the Senate and latifundia?
Major reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire.
What are:
overextension ;and military exhaustion
failure of leadership
constant Germanic invasions
lack of civic duty/lack of conviction in belief system
use of mercenary soldiers with other allegiances
etc.
inflation
Five legacies of the Roman Empire.
What are Romance languages, Republican methods of government, Western law codes, mass entertainment, the spread of Greco-Roman philosophy, science, math, and literature, the engineering feats of aqueducts, arches, concrete, and road-building, etc.?