Greece
Dubbed the father of "scientific history"
Thucydides
Established the school of Stoicism
Zeno
Greek aristocrats lost their monopoly on military prowess after the introduction of ...
Hoplites
Egyptian term which simply means “leaders of foreigners"
Hyksos
Discovered the principles of the lever, pulley and screw
Archimedes
The first important society in the Greek world developed on the this island
Crete
Plato’s student, but much more practical
Aristotle
An elite military unit composed entirely of male couples
The Theban Sacred Band
Egyptian god who created the universe
Ptah
This Greek city-state depended on the enslaved labor of ....
Sparta
Influenced the development of mathematics and its application to music and astronomy; studied mathematics as a way to enlightenment
Pythagoras (ca. 530)
Denied that there was anything close to true knowledge
The Skeptics
The first individual to predict that one could reach Asia by sailing west
Eratosthenes (276 BCE -194 BCE)
Accomplishments of King Darius of Persia included building of ....
roads for transport and postal service.
A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework
tyrant
Alexander the Great founded a great empire that might be described as a
cultural empire
A philosophical concern of Plato’s was
to establish a just society
excessive pride, which was punished by the gods
Hubris
Prior to the coming of these peoples, the ancient Egyptians regarded their country as the secure center of the cosmos
Hyksos
Most historians believe that because of its composite nature each part of this book should be analyzed within its particular context.
What is the Bible
Spartan secret police
The krypteia
Argued that social harmony and order are more important than individual liberty or equality
Plato
The ultimate aim of the military and political policies of Philip II was
invade Persia
This pharaoh undermined the very stability of Egypt by introducing radical religious policies
Akhenaten
The reason the Peloponnesian War was deadlocked for an extended period of time
Athens could not defeat Sparta on land, and Sparta could not defeat Athens at sea.