256102471 | Arrian | which of the following people wrote that Alexander the Great possessed, "great personal beauty, invincible power of endurance, and a keen intellect"? | 0 | |
256102472 | Antigonus | a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia | 1 | |
256102473 | Ptolemy | an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC | 2 | |
256102474 | Aeschylus | Greek tragedian | 3 | |
256102475 | Sophocles | one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) | 4 | |
256102476 | Euripides | writer, used regular people instead of Gods, and tried to answer real life questions in playwrite | 5 | |
256102477 | Aristophanes | Greek writer and comtemporary of Sophocles and Euripides. Was the "Father of Comedy" - used satire and fantasy to challenge problematic situations. Most famous: The Archarnians and The Lysistrata | 6 | |
256102478 | Plebeians | lower class, usually small farmers | 7 | |
256102479 | Patricians | the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners | 8 | |
256102480 | Pax Romana | the Roman peace | 9 | |
256102481 | Consul | a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country | 10 | |
256102482 | Tribune | the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne | 11 | |
256102483 | Latifundia | huge estates owned by wealthy families | 12 | |
256102484 | Stoicism | an indifference to pleasure or pain | 13 | |
256102485 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud | 14 | |
256102486 | Essenes | sect of Jews of Judea who were uncompromising in their piety and their disgust with what they considered a corrupted priesthood; library is known as the Dead Sea Scrolls | 15 | |
256102487 | Carthaginians | In 264 and 202 B.C.E., Rome fought two protracted and bloody wars against Carthaginians. , These people were descendants of Phoenicians from Lebanon and settled in present-day Tunisia. They dominated the commerce of the western Mediterranean. Hannibal. Middle Republic | 16 | |
256102488 | Julius Caesar | Roman general and dictator. He was murdered by a group of senators and his former friend Brutus who hoped to restore the normal running of the republic. | 17 | |
256102489 | Augustus Caesar | The first empreror of Rome, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, help Rome come into Pax Romana, or the Age of Roman Peace | 18 | |
256102490 | Marius | a Roman general who was elected consul seven times- he is known for the big changes he made to the Roman army, making it easier for men to be Roman soldiers | 19 | |
256102491 | Sulla | Roman general and dictator (138-78 BC) | 20 | |
256102492 | Tiberius Gracchus | tribunes who attempted to introduce land and citizenship reform under the late Roman republic; both were killed by order of the Senate. | 21 | |
256102493 | Gaius Gracchus | Proposed using public funds to buy and sell grain to the poor at reduced prices (welfare program); Killed in a riot planned by his enemies. ; The Senate justified killings by claiming the Republic was in danger; Violence becomes "Law of the Land" | 22 | |
256102494 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 23 | |
256102495 | Paul of Tarsus | A Jew from Asia Minor that played the most influential role in the spread of Christianity. Paul never met Jesus but he had a vision one day of speaking to him. | 24 | |
256102496 | Tacitus | Senator and historian of the Roman Empire, wrote the Annals and the Histories. | 25 | |
256102497 | Silk Roads | the most famous of the trading routes established by pastoral nomads connecting the European, Indian, and Chinese; transmitted goods and ideas among civilizations | 26 | |
256102498 | Monsoons | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons | 27 | |
256102499 | Nestorians | A Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions | 28 | |
256102500 | Manichaeism | a religion founded by Manes the third century | 29 | |
256102501 | Epidemic diseases | devastated communities b/c they had no immunities and no medicines, smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague | 30 | |
256102502 | Bubonic plague | the most common form of the plague | 31 | |
256102503 | Council of Nicaea | Christian council that met in 325 to determine the question of the trinity; decided on the divinity of all three persons. | 32 | |
256102504 | Council of Chalcedon | an ecumenical council of the Christian Church held in Chalcedon in 451 | 33 | |
256102505 | Edict of Milan | 313 CE Constantine makes Christianity the primary religion of the Roman Empire | 34 | |
256102506 | Tetrarchs | four rulers who divided rule of Empire | 35 | |
256102507 | Zhang Qian | father of the silk road | 36 | |
256102508 | Nestorius | Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century | 37 | |
256102509 | Mani | Madness | 38 | |
256102510 | Theodosius | He divides the Roman Empire into two different empires (Roman & Byzantine). He also makes Christianity the only religion you could be. | 39 | |
256102511 | St. Augustine | early christian leader who writes the book City of God that instructs how Christians are to be | 40 | |
256102512 | Constantine | a walled city in northeastern Algeria east of Algiers | 41 | |
256102513 | Attila the Hun | A king of the Huns in the fifth century. His forces overran many parts of central and eastern Europe. His armies were known for their cruelty and wholesale destruction. He was called the "scourge of God." | 42 | |
256102514 | Alaric | king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410) | 43 | |
256102515 | Gregory the Wonderworker | a tireless missionary with a reputation for performing miracles and who popularized Christianity in central Anatolia | 44 | |
256102516 | St. Cyprian | which of the following men recorded the suffering of Christians caused by epidemic diseases in his "On Morality"? | 45 | |
256102517 | Odovacer | Germanic general who deposed Romulus Augustulus (last Roman emperor in western half) in 476 CE | 46 |
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