A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage between 264-146 B.C.
What are the Punic Wars?
100
A group of three rulers.
What is a triumvirate?
100
A high-ranking Christian official who supervises a number of local churches.
What is a bishop?
100
A decline in the value of money, accompanied by a rise in the prices of goods and services.
What is inflation?
100
Relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century B.C.
What is Hellenistic?
200
A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
What is a myth?
200
In the society of ancient Sparta, a peasant bound to the land.
What is a helot?
200
A government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives.
What is a direct democracy?
200
King of Macedonia in 336 B.C. after his father, Philip II, was killed.
Who was Alexander the Great?
200
An ancient culture that developed from a blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures.
What is Greco-Roman culture?
300
A place that was built on seven rolling at a curve on the Tiber River, near the center of the Italian peninsula.
What is Rome?
300
Julius Caesars' grandnephew and adopted son who was part of the Second Triumvirate and later took the name "Augustus"
Who was Octavian?
300
A war lasting from 431 to 404 B.C., in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
A soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army.
What is a mercenary?
300
A pipeline or channel built to carry water to populated areas.
What is an aqueduct?
400
A long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes.
What is an epic?
400
A conflict between two political groups within the same country.
What is a civil war?
400
A Roman emperor who prayed for divine help for a battle, won, and then credited his success to the help of the Christian God; Also announced an end to persecution of Christians in A.D. 313.
Who was Constantine?
400
The last Roman emperor who was ousted by German forces in 476.
Who was Romulus Augustulus?
400
An Egyptian city that became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization.
What is Alexandria?
500
The original founders of Rome
Who were the Latins?
500
A young man who died after running 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the Persians defeat.
Who was Pheidippides?
500
To strengthen Athenian democracy, to hold and strengthen the empire, and to glorify the Athens.
What were Pericles' three goals for the Athens?
500
A kingdom located just north of Greece that had a rough terrain and cold climate.
What is Macedonia?
500
A Greek philosopher who founded the school of philosophy called Stoicism.