People
The first emperor of the Roman Empire
Caesar Augustus
The Fertile Crescent or the Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamia
A series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims
The Crusades
A social, political and economic system that brought stability to the medieval period
Feudalism
The most war like people of ancient Mesopotamia
The Assyrians
Developed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
The longest river in the world, responsible for the development of Egyptian civilization
The Nile
The year Rome fell
476 AD
Plato developed this allegory to explain enlightenment and truth
The Allegory of the Cave
Twin brothers who founded Rome
First person to codify law
Hammurabi
Crete
Cultural rebirth of the 15th century
The Renaissance
A form of government based upon citizen participation
Democracy
literal meaning of A.D.
Anno Domini
Roman Emperor who divided the empire
Diocletian
This island was occupied by the Romans and invaded by the Normans in 1066
England
A series of conflicts between Greece and a large empire to the East
The Persian Wars
Belief in many different gods
polytheism
He said "All I know is that I know nothing"
Socrates
British archaeologist who discovered the Royal Cemetery of Ur
Sir Leonard Wooley
Sea that separates Greece from Asia Minor
Aegean Sea
A mythical war that archaeologists have found very little actual evidence of
The Trojan War
The two classes of citizens in the Roman Republic
Plebiean and Patricians