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| 89640266 | alexander the great | Conquered and ruled an empire stretching from Macedonia to the Indus Valley | 0 | |
| 89640267 | alexandria | City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization | 1 | |
| 89640268 | cyrus the great | the leader who built the Persian empire | 2 | |
| 89640269 | galen | Greek surgeon who studied the body and described the valves of the heart and noted differences between arteries and veins | 3 | |
| 89640270 | hannibal | general of Carthage who marched his army from Spain to Rome in the Second Punic War | 4 | |
| 89640271 | Hellenistic Age | the blending of cultures that developed after the death of alexander | 5 | |
| 89640272 | Ionian | a member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks | 6 | |
| 89640273 | Doric | oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture | 7 | |
| 89640274 | corinthian | most ornate of the three orders of classical Greek architecture | 8 | |
| 89640275 | king xerxes | King Darius' son and successor; lead the battle of Thermopylae; was determined to defaeat the Greeks; in 480 BC he led an army into Greece; the Spartans joined into help the Athenians | 9 | |
| 89640276 | peloponnesian wars | a war fought between Athens and Sparta in the 400s BC, ending in a victory for Sparta | 10 | |
| 89640277 | sappho | Greek poet who wrote about human emotions | 11 | |
| 89640278 | sophocles | one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) | 12 | |
| 89640279 | mystery religions | Religions often imported from the Middle East which featured secret rituals and fellowship and a greater sense of contact with the divine; competed with early Christianity | 13 | |
| 89640280 | direct democracy | A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives | 14 | |
| 89640281 | philip II of macedonia | father of Alexander the Great, ruler of Greece | 15 | |
| 89640282 | cicero | a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) | 16 | |
| 89640283 | roman republic | the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC | 17 | |
| 89640284 | Illiad and Odyssey | story written by Homer which discussed the last year of the Trojan war/ story wriittien by Homer which sdiscussed Odyseyuses life after defeat in the Trojan war | 18 | |
| 89640285 | Euclid | He is the father of geometry and wrote a book explaining geometry that was used as a text book till the 1900 | 19 | |
| 89640286 | 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 | 20 | |
| 89640287 | Plato | Student of Socrates, wrote The Republic about the perfectly governed society | 21 | |
| 89640288 | city-state | a city that is also a seperate independant state | 22 | |
| 89640289 | themistocles | an Athenian general who came up with a plan for the Spartans and the Athenians to fight the Persians | 23 | |
| 89640290 | Aristotle | Student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great | 24 | |
| 89640291 | Vergil | roman poet who wrote famous epic poem, AENEID which describes the foundings of Rome | 25 | |
| 89640292 | Punic Wars | The three wars between Carthage and Rome. | 26 | |
| 89640293 | Pythagoras | philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics | 27 | |
| 89640294 | aristocracy | Group of the most wealthy and privileged | 28 | |
| 89640295 | zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by Zoroaster; taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong, and that goodness would triumph in the end | 29 | |
| 89640296 | constantine | Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337) | 30 | |
| 89640297 | carthage | fought with Rome in the Punic Wars, had the great general Hannibal but was later defeated | 31 | |
| 89640298 | Persian wars | A series of wars between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire (5th century B.C.). | 32 | |
| 89640299 | ptolemy | ancient scientist who said earth was the center of the universe | 33 | |
| 89640300 | polis | Greek city-state | 34 | |
| 89640301 | Julius Caeser | A military commander who became a Dictator | 35 | |
| 89640302 | Battle of Marathon | a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians | 36 | |
| 89640303 | Battle of thermopylae | Battle during the Persian wars in which Spartan troops fought to the death against a much larger Persian force | 37 | |
| 89640304 | Augustus | First emperor of the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar's grand-nephew. | 38 | |
| 89640305 | Herodotus | the ancient greek known as the father of history | 39 | |
| 89640306 | Twelve tables | Rome's first code of laws; adopted in 450 B.C. | 40 | |
| 89640307 | tyranny | dominance through threat of punishment and violence | 41 | |
| 89640308 | Olympic Games | the ancient Panhellenic celebration at Olympia in honor of Zeus | 42 | |
| 89640309 | Socrates | Critic of the Sophists, was condemned to death for "corrupting the youth of Athens" | 43 |
