Ap world history Flashcards

5161864392	Aristole	A greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira	0
5161900289	Stoics	Of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity	1
5161948550	Socrates	A classical greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of western philosophy and known through the accounts of classical writers	2
5161959709	Plato	Was a philospher in classical greece and the founder of the academy in athens	3
5161967914	Illiad	Is an ancient greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter traditionally attributed to Homer	4
5161977996	Odyssey	Ever since the homer's epic poem the odyssey told the story or warrior odysseus	5
5161986056	Sophocles	Is one of the three ancient greek tragedians whose plays have survived his first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus	6
5161995715	Alexander The Great	A ruler of Greece in the fourth century b.c as a general he conquered most of the ancient world , extending the civilization of Greece east to india	7
5162028743	Aristocracy	A government or state ruled by an aristocracy elite, or privileged upper class	8
5162037293	Monarchy	Supreme power or soueveighty held by a single person	9
5162043190	Polis	An ancient greek city-state	10
5162048297	Ostracism	temporary banishment of a citizen decided upon by vote	11
5162051838	Jury	A group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a questions officially submitted to them	12
5162060888	Tyrant	A cruel and oppressive ruler	13
5162075742	Phalanx	A group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep with shields joined and long spears overlapping	14
5162083826	Oligarchy	A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class	15
5162092010	Helots	A member of a class of serfs in ancient sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens	16
5162102932	Senate	The state council of the ancient Roman republic and empire, which shared legislative power with the popular assemblies	17
5162123331	Zoroastrianism	pre-islamic religion of Iran that surveys there in isolated areas and more prosperously, in india	18
5162129909	Cyrus the Great	The Founder of the Achaemenid empire	19
5162141630	Peloponesian Wars	A ancient greek war fought by athens and its empire against the peloponnesian League led by sparta and it was divided into 3 phases	20
5162152279	Olympic Games	The greatest of the games or festivals of ancient greece, held every 4 years in the plain of olympia in Elis	21
5162158351	Pericles	A greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the golden age specifically the time between the persian and peloponnesian wars	22
5162171087	Philip Macedon	King of Macedon achieved a peace settlement in which all the states except sparta participated his son was Alexander The Great	23
5162179704	Hellenistic Period	Is a period in history defined as the time between the death of Alexander the great and the rise of roman domination	24
5162185825	Punic Wars	Was a series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage. At the time, they were probably the largest wars that had ever taken	25
5162196243	Roman Republic	Was the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the roman kingdom	26
5162203447	Hannibal	General who commanded the carthaginian army in the second Punic wars; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend carthage and was defeated	27
5162213714	Julius Cesar	Gaius julius cesar known as julius cesar Was a roman politican , general, and notable author of latin prose	28
5162223820	Augustus Caesar	Was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first emperor	29
5162228278	Diocletian	Was the Roman emperor and born to a family of low status in the roman province of palmatia and diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become cavalry commander to the emperor cars	30
5162240508	Constantine	Was the great Roman emperor and his parents are Helena and Constantius Chiorus	31
5162246639	Direct Democracy	Is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g vote on , form consensus on) policy initiatives directly	32
5162254594	Consul	One of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic	33