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| Frage | Antworten |
| When did Alexander the Great reign? | 336-325 BC |
| Who taught Alexander the Great? | Aristotle |
| In 336 BC why did Alexander the Great destroy Athens? | Thebes revolted |
| Where was Alexander the Great proclaimed King? | Egypt |
| What city was founded by Alexander the Great? | Alexandria |
| Who did Alexander the Great believe was his true father? | Zues |
| Where did Alexander the Great beat Darius? | Guagamela |
| Alexander the Great burned royal palaces and temples here. | Persepolis |
| Alexander the Great suffered tremendous loss traveling through here | Gedrosian Region |
| Married this Sogdian Princess | Roxane |
| What year did Alexander the Great die? And of what did he die from? | 323 BC. Malaria. |
| What happened to Alexander the IV and Roxane after Alexander the Great died? | they were murdered |
| What happened to the Kingdom after the death of Alexander the Great? | was broken into three smaller kingdoms |
| What are the 3 Hellenistic kingdoms? | #1. Macedon and Greece #2. Seleuid Empire #3. Ptolemaic Kingdom |
| This city was the principle port in the eastern Mediterranean and became the 2nd most important city in the ancient world. | Alexandria |
| seized massive boot here | Babylon, Susa, and Persespolis |
| Defeated Porus here in 326 BC | Hydaspes River |
| Who conquered the whole Persian Empire? | Alexander the Great |
| This oracle was used by Alexander the Great that held a message he never got to disclose | Ammon |
| Worked on geometric spheres and cones; established value of pi; also well known for his weapons; inventor/mathematician | Archimedes |
| Battle where Athenians and Thebans confronted the Macedonians in 338 BC | Chaeronea |
| Battle ended the city-state as the primary Greek political unit into large empires absorbed the Greek states until new political structures | The Battle of Chearonea |
| Formulated the earth-centered theory that was superseded by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton in the 16th and 17th century | Claudius Ptolemy |
| Ruler of Persian Empire who was beaten by Alexander the Great at Gaugamela in 331 | Darius |
| Athenian Statesman who gave a series of speeches entitled Philippics that claimed Philip was addicted to power | Demosthenes |
| accurately calculated the circumference of the earth | Eratosthenes |
| textbook that explained the principles of geometry and lasted for 2000 years | Elements |
| Wrote Elements | Euclid |
| First battle against Alexander vs Persia; happened in 334 BC | Granicus River |
| One of the many cults from Egypt that offered an escape, promised mortality, and it also paved the way for Christianity | Isis |
| Athenian Orator who urged Philip II to fight against Persia | Isocrates |
| Battled against Alexander and King Darius III in 333; Alexander won | Battle of Issus |
| Underdeveloped portion of Greece that had valuable natural resources and huge manpower reserves; Philip and Alexander the Great acquired it in their reigns | Macedonian |
| Perfected the New Comedy | Menander |
| plays that included private family squabbles; influenced Roman Stage | New Comedy |
| sharp witted satirical refrence to current events and public policy | Aristophonic Old Comedy |
| Cult from Persia mush like Isis | Mithras |
| Philip was able to fund army by seizing gold and silver from mines in this mountain | Mount Pangaes |
| royal capital where Alexander the Great was born; Philip encourage intellectuals to come here to help mainstream the Macedon into Greek cultural | Pella |
| Increased army size; diversified army; introduced new thrust spear, better siege machinery, and more effective infantry; defeated Balkan neighbors; unified and modernized Greece | Philip the II |
| Who killed Philip the II? | He was killed by his body guard |
| Which Hellenistic Empire contained the great library of Alexandria and the "think tanks" that was known as museums | Ptolemaic Kingdom |
| Oasis that Alexander the Great consulted | Siwah |
| What were the three beliefs that the Stoics believed in? | #1. goodness is based on knowledge #2. truly wise person lives in harmony with nature #3. only good is harmony with nature |
| What did the Stoicism emphasis? | outwardly directed concepts such as duty and civic responsibility |
| Stoic Philosophy Masterpiece written by Marcus Aurelius | Meditations |
| Key Persian naval base | Tyre |
| taught in Athens at the Stoa Poikile; he founded stoic philosophy | Zeno of Citium |
| belief that is based on this quote: "Eat, drink, and make merry, for tomorrow you die and will not be held accountable" | Epicurous |
| Roman poet that was considered the most eloquent member of the Epicurus belief | Lucretius |
| Marked the beginning of a distinguished history of Roman Law | 12 tables |
| pleased the masses in Rome by his major building programs and gifts of money | Trajan |
| tirelessly traveled throughout the provinces of the empire; personally attending to military security along borders | Hadrian |
| Satirist who trained the powerful weapon of his biting criticism on its social and moral degreneration | Juvenal |
| major power in the western Mediterranean that was originally founded as a Phoenician colony | Carthage |
| major power in the western Mediterranean that was originally founded as a Phoenician colony | Carthage |
| one of the men who cooperated for a time to subvert the Republic System in favor of their own personal goals; military glory died on the plains of Mesopotamia; head was displayed as a trophy for the Parthians | Crassus |
| wrote a massive history of Rome called The History | Livy |
| psychopath who committed incest and murdered close family members like his mother. | Nero |
| followed the governmental policies of Diocletian, ruling autocratically and consulting only a few trusted appointees; prepared the way for the empire's split by founding a new imperial capital, Costantinople | Constantine |
| was forced by Caesar to withdraw to Greece; was later on defeated by him at Pharsalus; he then escaped to Alexandria where he was stabbed to death | Pompey |
| wrote the best and most extensive narrative of the period from 14 to 96 CE | tacitus |
| create the Masterpiece of world literature that is entitled Aeneid (hero Aneas after the fall of Troy) | Vergil |
| "dagger-men" eventually caused Rome to take decisive action; political resistance group | Sicarii |
| mastered Greek and Hebrew and produced a translation into Latin of the whole Bible known as the Vulgate | Jerome |
| the failure of their revolt and the loss of their temple as a central religious and political focus caused Jews to be scattered around the eastern Mediterranean and even farther afield in a dispersal known as | diaspora |
| aristocrat or nobleman | patricians |
| commoner | plebians |
| he considered one of the most important figures in the Apostolic Age; funded many churches in Asia Minor and Europe | Paul |
| ancient Greek lyrical poet | Pindar |
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