Historical Figures Flashcards
1
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Persian king who invaded Greece
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Xerxes
2
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Spartan leader who destroyed the Athenian navy at the Battle of Aegospotomi
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Lysander
3
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Macedonian king who ruled over a united Greece and invaded the Persian Empire
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Alexander the Great
4
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Athenian democracy began under his leadership
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Cleisthenes
5
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Held off the Persian army with 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae
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Leonidas
6
Q
- Most famous for making his horse a consul
- Name means Little Boots
- Marries sister
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Caligula
7
Q
- First emperor to be condemned to damnatio memoriae
- Murdered by niece
- Cruel
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Domitian
8
Q
He was the first Roman emperor
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Augustus
9
Q
- Most famous for playing the fiddle while Rome burned in the Great Fire of 64
- Sleeps with mom
- Has mom killed
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Nero
10
Q
First of the Five Good Emperors
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Nerva
11
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King of Persia that invades Greece originally and had the Battle of Marathon
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King Darius
12
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- Son of Augustas
- Kills brother to protect his throne
- Married his step sister
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Tiberius
13
Q
- Wrote history of Rome that didn’t survive
- Expanded the empire greatly
- Has son named Britannicus
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Claudius
14
Q
Year of Four Good Emperors
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Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian
15
Q
- Son of Vespasian
- Had peaceful reign
- Died of natural causes=
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Titus
16
Q
- Good emperor
- Died of natural causes
- wise and moral
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Trajan
17
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- Good emperor and commander
- Had sexual relations with younger man
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Hadrian
18
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- Made Hadrian a God
- Most peaceful reign
- Worldly man
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Antonitus
19
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- Philosopher
- Most amount of persecution of christians under his reign
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Marcus Aurelius
