Grecia y Roma clasicas

Question 1

Pericles

Answer 1

A statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens. He also promoted democracy.

Question 2

Aristotle

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Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote about virtually every area of knowledge, including most of the sciences.

Question 3

direct democracy

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forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making.

Question 4

phillip II of macedon

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the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty of Macedonian kings, the third son of King Amyntas III of Macedon, and father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.

Question 5

Diocletian

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was a Roman emperor from 284 to 305. Born to a family of low status in Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become a cavalry commander of the Emperor Carus’s army

Question 6

augustus ceasar

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Returning to Rome in triumph, Octavian added the title Augustus (meaning “sacred” or “exalted”) to his adopted surname, Caesar, and remained imperator for life. The vast Roman Empire, long contested by consuls and generals, was now firmly in the grasp of an emperor: Augustus Caesar.

Question 7

socrates

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a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

Question 8

punic wars

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a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire

Question 9

the roman republic

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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.

Question 10

peloponnesian Wars

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a war fought for supremacy in Greece from 431 to 404 bc, in which Athens and her allies were defeated by the league centred on Sparta.

Question 11

Zoroastrianism

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is one of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions. It is a multi-faceted faith centered on a dualistic cosmology of good and evil and an eschatology predicting the ultimate conquest of evil with theological elements of henotheism, monotheism/monism, and polytheism.

Question 12

olympic games

Answer 12

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics are 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

Question 13

constantine

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Or also known as Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.

Question 14

iliad and odyssey

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The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her

Question 15

Trojan captors

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The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic around the struggle of one of those Greek warriors, the hero Odysseus.

Question 16

sappho

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was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

Question 17

carthage

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was an ancient Phoenician city-state and civilization

Question 18

Plato

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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.

Question 19

stoics

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:a member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism.

Question 20

jelius cesar

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was a renowned general, politician and scholar in ancient Rome who conquered the vast region of Gaul and helped initiate the end of the Roman Republic when he became dictator of the Roman Empire.

Question 21

Doric

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was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian

Question 22

hannibal

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is a latinization of the Carthaginian masculine given name

Question 23

cyrus the great

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also called Cyrus II, (born 590–580 BCE, Media, or Persis [now in Iran]—died c. 529, Asia), conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia and comprising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. He is also remembered in the Cyrus legend—first recorded by Xenophon, Greek soldier and author, in his Cyropaedia—as a tolerant and ideal monarch who was called the father of his people by the ancient Persians. In the Bible he is the liberator of th
The Hellenistic period: covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.

Question 24

alexandria

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After conquering Syria in 332 BCE, Alexander the Great swept down into Egypt with his army. He founded Alexandria in the small port town of Rhakotis by the sea and set about the task of turning it into a great capital.

Question 25

stoicims

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: an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.

Question 26

Hannibal

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was the son of Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca

Question 27

corinthian

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relating to the lightest and most ornate of the three ancient Greek architectural orders distinguished especially by its large capitals decorated with carved acanthus leave.

Question 28

Hellenistic Period

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The Hellenistic Period is a part of the Ancient Period for the European and Near Asian space. … In consequence, the Hellenistic Period is usually accepted to begin in 323 BC with Alexander’s death and ends in 31 BC with the conquest of the last Hellenistic kingdom by Rome, the Lagid kingdom of Egypt.

Question 29

senate

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Augustus initiated a series of revisions of the senate of which the most important occurred in 28 bce and 18 bce. After the latter the size of the senate was fixed at 600, which remained its normal figure through the first two and a half centuries of the Principate.

Question 30

Consuls

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one of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic.

Question 31

cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and Academic skeptic who played an important role in the politics of the late Roman Republic and in vain tried to uphold republican principles during the crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.