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| 33296241 | Sparta and Athens | Became the two leading city-states: The first represented a strong military aristocracy dominating a slave population; the other was a more diverse commercial state, also including the extensive use of slaves, justly proud of its artistic and intellectual leadership. | 0 | |
| 33296242 | Pericles | the most famous Greek political figure; An aristocrat who ruled not through official position, but by wise influence and negotiation. | 1 | |
| 33296243 | Hellenistic | a period named for the influence of the Hellenes, as the Greeks were known; Little political activity, yet trade flourished and important scientific centers were established. | 2 | |
| 33296244 | Punic Wars | three wars from about 264 to 146 B.C.E., during which Rome fought and defeated the armies of the Phoenician city of Carthage, situated on the northern coast of Africa. | 3 | |
| 33296245 | Classical Mediterranean Civilization | sprang up on the Mediterranean Sea from 800 B.C.E. until the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 C.E.; rivaled their counterparts in India and China in richness and impact. | 4 | |
| 33296246 | Greek City-States | an independent city and its surrounding regions under a unified government. | 5 | |
| 33296247 | Twelve Tables | The early Roman republic's first code of law, introduced by 450 B.C.E.; were intended to restrain the upper classes from arbitrary action and to subject them, as well as ordinary people, to some common legal principles. | 6 | |
| 33296248 | Julius Caesar | Won the Civil wars in 45 B.C.E. which led to the effective end of the traditional institutions of the Roman state; grandson was Augustus Caesar; was assassinated. | 7 | |
| 33296249 | Socrates | Born in Athens in 469 B.C.E., and encouraged his pupils to question conventional wisdom, on the grounds that the chief human duty was "the improvement of the soul"; Great pupil was Plato. | 8 | |
| 33296250 | Plato | Socrates great pupil; suggested that human reason could approach an understanding of the three perfect forms- the absolute True, Good, and Beautiful- which he believed characterized nature. | 9 | |
| 33296251 | Euclid | A mathematician who produced what was long the world's most widely used compendium of geometry. | 10 | |
| 33296252 | Sophocles | An Athenian dramatist who portrayed the psychological flaws of his hero Oedipus so well that modern psychology long used the term Oedipus complex to refer to a potentially unhealthy relationship between a man and his mother. | 11 | |
| 33296253 | Stoics | Ethical systems that emphasized an inner moral independence, to be cultivated by strict discipline of the body and by personal bravery; developed largely apart from religious considerations and were major contributions in their own right. | 12 | |
| 33296254 | Pleoponnesian War | War between Athens and Sparta fighting for control of Greece. | 13 | |
| 33296255 | Cyrus the Great | Established a massive Persian Empire across the northern Middle East and into north-western India by 550 B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 33296256 | Iliad and Odyssey | Two extremely well-known tales written by the poet Homer in the eighth century B.C.E. | 15 | |
| 33296257 | Zoroastrianism | Animist religion that saw material existence as battle between forces of good and evil; stressed the importance of moral choice. | 16 |
