Ap world history #1 Flashcards

2855183486	Cuneiform	Oldest forms of writing	0
2855183487	Thebes	Capital of the Egyptian empire	1
2855183488	Monarchy	Government ruled by a king or queen	2
2855183489	Oligarchy	Government ruled by a group of people	3
2855183490	Parthenon	Most famous Greek architectural accomplishment	4
2855183491	Republic	Democratic system elected by the people	5
2855183492	Senate	In Rome representative body	6
2855183493	Reincarnation	Hindu belief	7
2855183494	Karma	Hindu belief	8
2855183495	Siddhartha Gautama	Founder of Buddhism	9
2855183496	Nirvana	Buddhist idea of heaven	10
2855183497	Confucius	Chinese philosopher that installed a system of justice and morals	11
2855183498	Torah	1st 5 books of the bible	12
2855183499	Hammurabi	Greatest king of Babylon	13
2855183500	Monotheism	Believe in one God	14
2855183501	Polytheism	Sumerians believed in many gods	15
2855183502	Darius I	First real conqueror	16
2855183503	Ramses II	Doubled land of Egyptian empire	17
2855183504	Homer	Wrote lliad and odyssey	18
2855183505	Polis	Greek version of city state	19
2855183506	Athens		20
2855183507	Sparta	Premier warrior culture of all time	21
2855183508	Socrates	1st brilliant philosopher in Greece	22
2855183509	Plato	Student of Socrates	23
2855183510	Phillip II	King of Macedonia	24
2855183511	Alexander the Great	Educated by the great philosopher Aristotle.	25
2855183512	Hannibal	Carthaginian general who decided to attack Rome through northern Italy with a large army and elephants	26
2855183513	Julius Caesar	Roman general and turned the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire.	27
2855183514	March 15 , 44 BC	Caesar was called to the roman forum ; Caesar was killed	28
2855183515	Augustus	Octavian victory over Antony ; he changed his name ; first emperor	29
2855183516	Mark Antony	Encourages Caesar not to relinquish his armies	30
2855183517	Pox Romana	200 year period of peace	31
2855183518	Circus Maximus	Horse race track	32
2855183519	Coliseum	Roman arena of death ; roman entertainment	33
2855183520	Constantine	First Christian emperor	34
2855183521	Tribune	Represented the plebeians	35
2855183522	Attila the Hun	Barbarian king and leader ; Breaks roman legions	36
2855183523	Caligula	Craziest emperor of Rome	37
2855183524	Constantinople	Constantine started the construction of a new city in Asia Minor	38
2855183525	Nero	Fire of Rome	39
2855183526	Etruscans		40
2855183527	Plebeians	Normal roman citizens	41
2855183528	Consul	Leader of the senate	42
2855183529	Battle of issus	Alexander will meet Darius III In battle	43
2855183530	Aristotle	Student of plato and a mathematical genius	44
2855183531	Pompey	One of the men that dominated roman political life	45
2855183532	Cyrus the great	Responsible for the formation of the Persian empire	46
2855183533	Jerusalem	Capital city of the Israelites	47
2855183534	The roman love triangle	Julius Caesar, cleopatra, and mark Antony	48
2855183535	Zeus	King of the gods	49
2855183536	Poseidon	God of the seas	50
2855183537	Athena	Goddess of war and wisdom	51
2855183538	Hades	God of the afterlife	52
2855183539	Hermes	Messenger God	53
2855183540	Apollo	God of music	54
2855183541	Battle of Thermopylae	Sparta vs Persian	55
2855183542	Reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire	-Roman family is destroyed -Weak emperors -Romans refuse to serve in military -barbarian invasions	56