Grecia y Roma Clasicas Flashcards
Cyrus the Great
Was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire
Zoroastrianism
One of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions.
Olympic Games
Leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
Pericles
prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age.
Peloponnesian Wars
ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
Philip II of Macedon
was the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.
Hellenistic Period
the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire.
Roman Republic
was the era of classical Roman civilization, led by the Roman people, beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Punic wars
were a series of three wars between 264 and 146 BC fought by the states of Rome and Carthage.
Carthage
Founded by the Phoenicians in the first millennium B.C., it was once the seat of the powerful Carthaginian (Punic) Empire
Hannibal
Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage’s main forces against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Julius Caesar
was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
Augustus Caesar
was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
Diocletian
was a Roman emperor from 284 to 305.
Constantine
also known as Constantine I, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.
Direct Democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
Senate
the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries.
Consuls
an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government’s citizens and interests there.
Cicero
was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and Academic skeptic who played an important role in the politics of the late Roman Republic
Aristotle
was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
Stoics
school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC.
Socrates
Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy,
Plato
was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Sophocles
one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.
