319227489 | Polytheistic | They worship more than one god. | 0 | |
319227490 | Ziggurats | Kind of like pyramids, to appease their gods. | 1 | |
319227491 | Tikal | The most important Mayan political center, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people. | 2 | |
319227492 | Code of Hammurabi | Is often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes. | 3 | |
319227493 | Lydians | They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system. | 4 | |
319227494 | Athens | A political, commercial,and cultural center of Greek civilization. | 5 | |
319227495 | Sparta | An agricultural and highly militaristic region. | 6 | |
319227496 | Queen Hatshepsut | The first female ruler, ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom. | 7 | |
319227497 | Indus Valley | A civilization was built along the banks of a river system. | 8 | |
319227498 | Nebuchadnezzar | Rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture. | 9 | |
319227499 | Jenne-Jeno | Believed to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa. | 10 | |
319227500 | Caesar | Was given power over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe. | 11 | |
319227501 | Persian Wars | United all the Greek city-states against their mutual enemy Persia. | 12 | |
319227502 | Alexander the Great | Was taught by Aristotle, widely expanded Macedonian dominance. | 13 | |
319227503 | Hellenism | The culture,ideals,and pattern of life of Classical Greece-didn't perish as a result of the victories over Athens and Sparta;instead, it came to be influential far beyond its original borders. | 14 | |
319490206 | Huns | A large nomadic group from northern Asia. | 15 | |
319490207 | Great Royal Road | Stretched 1,600 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Aegean Sea. | 16 | |
332121869 | Peloponnesian War | A war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta. | 17 | |
332121870 | Golden Age of Pericles | The period following the Greek victory in the Persian wars under Pericles of peace and prosperity. | 18 | |
332121871 | Hannibal | General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War. | 19 | |
332121872 | First Triumvirate | Included Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar. Is a government by three people with equal power. Crassus was killed. Caesar became dictator. | 20 | |
332121873 | Second Triumvirate | Octavius, Marc Antony, and Lepidus. Ocatvius took over and Replic was over. entered Pax Romana with Octavius. | 21 | |
332121874 | Plebeians | Lower class, usually small farmers. | 22 | |
332121875 | Patricians | The wealthy class in Roman society; landowners. | 23 | |
332121876 | Edict of Milan | Issued by Constantine in 313, ended the "great persecution" and legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire. | 24 | |
332121877 | Twelve Tables of Rome | Laws of Rome; concept of innocent until proven guilty originated here. | 25 | |
332121878 | Carthage | An ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis. | 26 | |
332121879 | Punic Wars | A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage (264-146 B.C.); resulted in the destruction of Carthage and Rome's dominance over the western Mediterranean. | 27 |
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