2852334350 | Monotheism | Belief that there is one God | 0 | |
2852344925 | Code of Hammurabi | A Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier instituted by Hammurabi. | 1 | |
2852367765 | Persia | An ancient empire located in West and Southwest Asia which was conquered by Alexander the Great 334-331 B.c. | 2 | |
2852371836 | Sparta | An ancient city in Greece which was the capital of Laconia and the chief city of Peloponnesus and was once the dominant city of Greece | 3 | |
2852371837 | Athens | A city in and the capital of Greece, in the South East part | 4 | |
2852372958 | Parthenon | Known as the temple of Athena Parthenos, which was built in 447-432 b.c. to honor Athens patron goddess and to salute the recent Greek victory over the Persians. | 5 | |
2852373706 | Socrates | An ancient Athenian philosopher who engaged in dialogue with others in an attempt to reach understanding and ethical concepts by exposing and dispelling error, which is now known as the Socratic method. (469-399 b.c.) | 6 | |
2852376472 | Aristotle | Aristotle was a Greek mythologist and scientist who was known as one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western thought. His surviving works cover an extensive range of subjects, which includes logic, ethics, metaphysics, politics, natural science, and physics. | 7 | |
2859123224 | Alexander the Great | Alexander the Great was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon who was born in Pella in 256 b.c. and was also a member of the Argead dynasty. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, until by the age of thirty he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to Egypt and into northwest India. He was undefeated in battle and is known as one of history's most successful military commanders. | 8 | |
2859179914 | Eratosthenes | The first systematic geographer of antiquity who accurately calculated the circumference of the earth and was also a Greek scholar, geographer, and an astronomer. | 9 | |
2859180771 | Archimedes | Greek mathematician and inventor from Syracuse. He is known for his discovery of Archimedes principle. In his mathematical discoveries are the ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference and formulas for the surface area and volume of a sphere and of a cylinder. | 10 | |
2859181807 | Plebeians | A commoner; a member of the lower social classes | 11 | |
2859181808 | Patricians | An aristocrat or nobleman | 12 | |
2859183418 | Rule of Law | The principle that all people and institutions are subject and are accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced. | 13 | |
2859415789 | Twelve Tablets | According to Roman tradition, the Law of the Twelve Tables was the ancient legislation which consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws. | 14 | |
2859415790 | Pax Romana | The peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. | 15 | |
2859489899 | Aryans | A member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. | 16 | |
2859491175 | Emperor Asoka | An Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE. | 17 | |
2859493528 | Mauryan Empire | A geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in Ancient India which was ruled by the Maurya Dinasty from 322-185 BCE. | 18 | |
2859497160 | Gupta Empire | The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire, founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta, which existed at its zenith from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent | 19 | |
2859498169 | Zhou Dynasty | The longest lasting of China's Dynasties and it finished when the army of the state of Qin captured the city of Chengzhou in 256 BCE | 20 | |
2859499793 | Han Dynasty | Under the rule of Han Dynasty, which was divided into two major periods: the Western or Former Han (206 B.C.-9 A.D.) and the Eastern Han (25-220 A.D.). | 21 | |
2859500861 | Neolithic Revolution | The first agricultural revolution which was the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement. It occurred in different prehistoric human societies at different times. | 22 | |
2859500862 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia is a Greek word meaning 'between the rivers' | 23 | |
2859502173 | Pharaoh | A ruler in ancient Egypt | 24 | |
2859502174 | Hieroglyphics | A stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems. | 25 | |
2859503390 | Cuneiform | Relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets | 26 |
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