| People and Ideas on the Move | First Age of Empires | Greece | Greek Thinkers | Rome |
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Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
Sought and found a revelation about how humans can avoid suffering- his message is the foundation of Buddhism
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Who is Hatshepsut?
Took over the throne to become pharaoh because her stepson was too young
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Who is Aristotle?
Student of Plato, also served as the classical teacher to Alexander the Great
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Who is Pythagoras?
developed a formula to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle
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What is Constantinople?
Constantine's name for the new capital of the Roman Empire
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What is reincarnation?
A common belief of Hindus and Buddhists, rebirth.
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What is the Assyrian Empire?
Many rejoiced when Nineveh, the capital of this empire was conquered and burned
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Who are the helots?
Sparta conquered a nearby territory and forced the inhabitants to work the land and pay a tribute of 50% of their crops (became the lowest rung in Spartan society)
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Who is Herodotus?
His history of the Persian Wars is considered the first “history book”
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What are the Twelve Tables?
A list of the laws under the Roman Republic, a big score of the Plebeians!
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What is the alphabet?
A lasting achievement of the Phoenicians, it helped traders make accurate transactions quickly
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What is the Qin Dynasty?
It replaced the Zhou Dynasty and under the harsh rule of Shi Huangdi unified China and built the Great Wall of China
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What is the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta beat Athens in this conflict
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Who is Phidias?
constructed much of the sculptures at the Parthenon including a giant statue of Athena
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What are the Punic Wars?
In a series of conflicts with Carthage Rome becomes the sole power in the Western Mediterranean
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Where is Egypt and Bablyon?
The two places where the Israelites were kept as captives during their early history?
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What is Zoroastrianism?
An early religion popular in Persia that may have influenced the major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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What is the Persian Empire, Egypt, and the Indus Valley?
The specific lands that Alexander conquered
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Who is Archimedes?
Developed this awesome tool for lifting water from the ground. It WAS awesome, really!
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Who is Mark Antony?
Boyfriend and suicide partner to Cleopatra
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Who is Abraham?
God said to ___ "Go forth from your native land... to the land I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great"
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What are the Analects?
The compiled works of Confucius
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What is to glorify Athens?
Pericles' three goals were to 1) strengthen Athenian democracy, 2) to hold and strengthen the empire, and 3) ___
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What is Elements?
Euclid's book on geometry contained 465 proofs, yawn.
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Who are Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
or Octavian (Augustus), Mark Antony, and Lepidus
The three leaders in one of the two triumvirates
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