European History Flashcards
Who was known as the father of modern medicine
Hippocrates - the Greek - the hippocratic oath is named after him
450bc
Who conquered the known world at age 26 and was born in 356bc
Alexandra the Great
When was Rome built?
753BC
Who is this?
He turned the Roman Republic into the powerful
Roman Empire. An assassination ended his reign
on the Ides of March.
Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar
Who is this?
He was known as crazy and had Alexandra the Greats armour dug up so he could wear it? And made his favourite Incitatus horse a consul?
The roman Emperor Calligular
AD 37
He also fed his horse oats flecked with gold!
When did homo sapiens begin?
35000bc
Who died when a viking hiding in the toilet stabbed him up the bottom in 1016
Edmund 2nd - the Saxon King of England
When was the car invested and by who?
1885 by Karl Benz
Who was the first Emperor of France
Napoleon Bonepart - self proclaimed first Emperor of France
Who was Draco?
Draco, also called Drako or Drakon, was the
first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. It was known as Dracinian Law and it was so strict that stealing an apple was punishable by death!
He replaced the prevailing system ol oral law and blood feud by a written code tobe enforced only by a court of law. Wikipedia
What was the 100 year war?
Between England and France ended in 1429 when the English beat the French by waiting until they starved
Which Roman Emperor has his wife’s head cut off and sent in a backet to his new girlfriend?
Nero
Explain the Crusades …
Started in 1095 … they were religious wars. The Pope said that any Christian who fought for the holy land would go to heaven
Who was the unpopular second emperor of Rome that retreated to the Island of Capri ?
Tiberius
Which nurse did just as much good work in the Crimean War as Florence nightingale, but was never recognised?
Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican business woman and nurse who set up the “British Hotel” behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as “a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers”, and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield
