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319227489PolytheisticThey worship more than one god.0
319227490ZigguratsKind of like pyramids, to appease their gods.1
319227491TikalThe most important Mayan political center, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people.2
319227492Code of HammurabiIs often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes.3
319227493LydiansThey came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system.4
319227494AthensA political, commercial,and cultural center of Greek civilization.5
319227495SpartaAn agricultural and highly militaristic region.6
319227496Queen HatshepsutThe first female ruler, ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom.7
319227497Indus ValleyA civilization was built along the banks of a river system.8
319227498NebuchadnezzarRebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture.9
319227499Jenne-JenoBelieved to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa.10
319227500CaesarWas given power over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe.11
319227501Persian WarsUnited all the Greek city-states against their mutual enemy Persia.12
319227502Alexander the GreatWas taught by Aristotle, widely expanded Macedonian dominance.13
319227503HellenismThe 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
319490206HunsA large nomadic group from northern Asia.15
319490207Great Royal RoadStretched 1,600 miles from the Persian Gulf to the Aegean Sea.16
332121869Peloponnesian WarA war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta.17
332121870Golden Age of PericlesThe period following the Greek victory in the Persian wars under Pericles of peace and prosperity.18
332121871HannibalGeneral who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War.19
332121872First TriumvirateIncluded Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar. Is a government by three people with equal power. Crassus was killed. Caesar became dictator.20
332121873Second TriumvirateOctavius, Marc Antony, and Lepidus. Ocatvius took over and Replic was over. entered Pax Romana with Octavius.21
332121874PlebeiansLower class, usually small farmers.22
332121875PatriciansThe wealthy class in Roman society; landowners.23
332121876Edict of MilanIssued by Constantine in 313, ended the "great persecution" and legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.24
332121877Twelve Tables of RomeLaws of Rome; concept of innocent until proven guilty originated here.25
332121878CarthageAn ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis.26
332121879Punic WarsA 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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