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| 272993893 | cyrus | conquered the fertile crescent. rules with mercy and compassion. did not force people to give up anything (only had to show loyalty) | 0 | |
| 272993894 | cambyses | conquered Egypt. son of Cyrus. was crazy; his own soldies killed him | 1 | |
| 272993895 | darius I | writes the same declaration in Cuneiform and in person on the behiston rock. conquered everything else form pakistan to eastern europe. tries to conquer greece but fails | 2 | |
| 272993896 | xerxes | tries to invade greece 10 years after his father fails. wins and then loses | 3 | |
| 272993897 | zoroastrianism | a monotheistic faith predating Christianity and Islam. idea of good vs evil and freewill. | 4 | |
| 272993898 | dark ages | time period where nothing was really written down. illiad and odyssey were composed. people still sailed and colonized though | 5 | |
| 272993899 | colonization | what makes it hard for Greek people to get to know eachother? | 6 | |
| 272993900 | hellenistic period | form time of alexander until the rise of Rome | 7 | |
| 272993901 | persian wars | first time Greeks ever had to come together. persians attack greece (especially athens). | 8 | |
| 272993902 | peloppennesian war | war that goes on for about 20 years. | 9 | |
| 272993903 | macedonia | conquers the greeks dont by phillip (said it was for their own good because persians were still out there | 10 | |
| 272993904 | alexander the great | conqueres egypt and extends to the indus river valley. dies at age 33 | 11 | |
| 272993905 | etruscans | conquered the little village of Rome. where romans got the toga, and organization of army | 12 | |
| 272993906 | punic wars | wars against the city of carthage (colony of the Phoenicians). rome wins all 3 wars. | 13 | |
| 272993907 | 2nd punic war | involved the general hannibal whose father had been defeated in the previous war. kills himself so that he wont be a prisoner of war | 14 | |
| 272993908 | cato | a roman senator who claims that carthage must be destroyed | 15 | |
| 272993909 | first triumvirate | caesar, pompey, and crassus. | 16 | |
| 272993910 | 2nd triumvirate | marc antony, octavian, and marcus lepedus | 17 | |
| 272993911 | marc antony | who runs to egypt and meets cleopatra and becomes a father to her kids? | 18 | |
| 272993912 | augustus caesar | adopted son of julius. means "exulted one". the first emperor. | 19 | |
| 272993913 | caesar | term that means "emperor" | 20 | |
| 272993914 | pontifus maximus | head priest of the religion | 21 | |
| 272993915 | imperator | commander of the roman legions | 22 | |
| 272993916 | tribune for life | has veto power over the senate | 23 | |
| 272993917 | pax romana | 200 year period in rome. sets the precedent of choosing a successor. "peace of rome" | 24 | |
| 272993918 | marcus aurelius | was a beloved emperor who was a philospher. wrote books and knew to rule wisely. had the ability to think and to do what is right for the people | 25 | |
| 272993919 | diocletian | made the decision to cut the empire in half | 26 | |
| 272993920 | polis | a greek city-state | 27 | |
| 272993921 | citizen | (in greece) had to be born in that city-state. had to be male of a certain age | 28 | |
| 272993922 | free people | (in greece) not slaves, but women children and foreigners | 29 | |
| 272993923 | aristocracy | "rule of the best" | 30 | |
| 272993924 | athenian democracy | the only democracy in the ancient world. | 31 | |
| 272993925 | limited democracy | citizens of all classes got to vore. | 32 | |
| 272993926 | direct democracy | have to vote directly. had to show up once a week | 33 | |
| 273193682 | senate | elected by Patricians. not really part of a democracy. serve for life. virtually a law making body | 34 | |
| 273193683 | consuls | in charge of the military. there are 2 | 35 | |
| 273193684 | tribune | has the power to veto any rulings of the senate. to the common people "plebeians" | 36 | |
| 273193685 | assemblies | sometimes elected, chosen or volunteers. give the senate things to talk about. | 37 | |
| 273193686 | cincinnatus | asked by the Romans to become dictator. in less than 6 months, he handled crisis and went back to farming | 38 | |
| 273193687 | dictator | only occured during times of crisis. usually 6 months. could be chosen to rule with limited power | 39 | |
| 273193688 | emperor | has absolute power, pontifus maximus, is the imperator, and tribune for life | 40 | |
| 273193689 | roman legion | was very well trained, disciplined, highly organized, but starts to loosen as the empire goes into decline | 41 | |
| 273193690 | local autonomy | roman governors (some form the local people). still had to do what the emperor said. | 42 | |
| 273193691 | bread and circuses | fed the people and entertained them with gladiators and chariot races etc. | 43 | |
| 273193692 | twelve tables | 12 tables that date all the way back to the early republic. laws to protect the rights of the plebeians. | 44 | |
| 273193693 | philosopher | means "love of wisdom" | 45 | |
| 273193694 | secular | non-religious | 46 | |
| 273193695 | socrates | known for socratic method. taught students to question their parents. was put on trial for corrupting the youth of athens | 47 | |
| 273193696 | plato | blamed everything on the government. did not have alot of faith in the state of democracy | 48 | |
| 273193697 | aristotle | tried to figure out how the world functioned physically. thought more about the sciences | 49 | |
| 273193698 | herodotus | writes about the persian wars. wasnt a very good historian (known as the father of history) | 50 | |
| 273193699 | thucydides | writes about the pelopponnesian war. was a reliable historian. | 51 |
