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Question 1

List and briefty desecribe three major battles of the Persian Wars.

Answer 1

Marathon - Athens won (sneak attack)_- sent Pheldippides to run 26.2 miles, then.he dled
Thermopylae - S00 Spartans “Last Stand” - they lose, but It gains valuable time for the Greeks
to bulld their nawy
Battle of Salamis - Naval battle, Persian ships stuck in the natrow waterways, Greeks win

Question 2

Athens enjoyeed its Golden Age under which uler?

Answer 2

Pericles

Question 3

Who are the three most famous Greek philosophers?

Answer 3

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Question 4

Which Greek city-state won the Peloponnesian War - and how were they able to win?

Answer 4

Sparta because
Athens builds a wall around the city, plague, Pericles dies, Sparta gets help from Persia

Question 5

People to know

Answer 5

Pythagorus - Mathematician and he developed the Pythagorean theorem
Pericles - leader during Athens Golden Age, “Father of Democracy”
Aristotle - Father of Logic, tutor of Alexander the Great
ROME
The city of Rome was founded about 15 miles away from which

Question 6

Which city of Rome was founded about 15 miles away from which river?

Answer 6

Tiber river

Question 7

From 509 BCE to 27 BCE,Rome was a republic what are two ways in which the Roman Republic was similar to our government. In the US today

Answer 7

They had a a Senate, MO consuls lat were KinG OflKe
co-presidents who had term limits, they had checks and balances

Question 8

were the Twelve Tables, and why were they important

Answer 8

Written laws, published 451 BCE - kept
order, and ensured that Plebeians were treated equally

Question 9

Who made up the First Triumvirate? Second Triumvirate? 1

Answer 9

1st: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus; 2ndi
Augustus_(Octavian), Marc Antony, Lepidus

Question 10

Why did Julius Caesar’s enemies assassinate him?

Answer 10

Atlaid he had too much power, the Senators were
ealous, afraid he would destroy the republic

Question 11

three achievements of Emperor Caesar Augustus.

Answer 11

Augustus. Paid tax collectors, professionalized the army,
gave free grain to citizens, andl oversawibuildinglþprojects
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Question 12

What was the Pax Romana

Answer 12

200 years of peace in the Romean Empire

Question 13

People to know:

Answer 13

People to know:
⁃ Julius Caesar - declared himself Dictator for, Life; assassinated by Senators on March 15,44
BCE (ldes of March) - Ms. Beavers’ birthdayt
Augustus - first emperor of the Roman Empire
Romulus and Remus - twin brothers, Romulus kiled Remus and founded Rome
Hannibal -_general of the Carthaginians. during’ the 2nd Punic War, elephant rider
Diocletian - divided the empire into east and west
Constantine - made Constantinople the new capital, he allowed Christianity in the Empire
Justinian and Theodora - Justinian Byzantine emperor, married Plebeian Theodora, organized
the laws (Justinian’s Code) and gave rights to women and spread education
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