History Names

Question 1

Narmer

Answer 1

Man who unified upper and lower eygpt

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Tutankhamen(King Tut)

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• Puts end to monotheism
• Moves new capital to Memphis,
• Tomb found by Howard Carter

Question 2

Hatsheput

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First female Pharoah

Question 3

Ramses II

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• A great military Pharoah

Question 4

Sargon

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First ruler of Akkadian Empire

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Hammurabi

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Babylonian king who created the eye for and eye law.

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Ashurbanipal

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Assyrian king

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Croesus

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A Lydian King

Question 8

Cyrus the Great

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Persian King

Question 9

Darius

Answer 9

Persian King who started the war with Greece

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Xerxes

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Persian king who tried to conquer Greece

Question 11

Sir Arthur Evans

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Archeologist who found the Greek city of Knossos on the island of Crete.

Question 12

Homer

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Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Question 13

Heinrich Schliemann

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Archeologiat who found the city of Troy

Question 14

Herodotus

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A Greek Historian

Question 15

Draco

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He was one of the 9 Archons and helped make Athens a democracy

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Solon

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• Archon, 594 BC
• Canceled debts of the poor
  -Outlawed Debt Slavery
• One of the 4 men who helped Athens move toward a democracy.

Question 17

Cleisthenes

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• Tyrant
• Which made Athens a direct democracy.

Question 18

Peisistratus

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• Tyrant
• Exiled novles who disagreed with his policies
• Disturbutied nobles land to poor farmers

Question 19

Pericles

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Greek politician during the golden age of athens
- It was his Idea to build the Parthenon

Question 20

Themistocles

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Athenian politician and naval strategist who was the creator of Athenian sea power and the chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian empire at the Battle of Salamis in 480 bce.

Question 21

Leonidas

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Spartan king who fought at Thermopylae

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Thucydides

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Athenian historian and General

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Phidias

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Greek Sculpture

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Myron

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Greek Sculptor

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Praxiteles

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Sculptor

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Socrates

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Greek Philosopher

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Philip II of Macedon

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Father of Alexader the Great
Tried to conquer Greece

Question 28

Alexander the Great

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Macedion King who went on very long counquest to Persia.

Question 29

Aristotle

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Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher

Question 30

Olympias

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Alexander the Great’s mother

Question 31

Becephalus

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Bucephalus or Bucephalas was the horse of Alexander the Great

Question 32

Diogenes

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Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Question 33

Archimedes

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Greek mathematician and physicist

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Eratothenes

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Greek mathematician and geographer

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Thales

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Thales of Miletus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher

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Hippocrates

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Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine

Question 37

Democritus

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Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher

Question 38

Livy

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Roman Historian

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Horatius

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Roman Historian

Question 40

Romulus and Remus

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In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome

Question 41

Gaius Mucies

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Gaius Mucius Scaevola was a legendary Roman hero of the 6th century bc. According to the legend, Mucius volunteered to assassinate the Etruscan king Lars Porsena

Question 42

Hannibal

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Hannibal was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

Question 43

Quintus Fabius Maximus

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, surnamed Cunctator, was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC.

Question 44

Scipio “ Africanus”

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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome’s victory against Carthage in the Second Punic

Question 45

CIncinnatus

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Roman statesman who gained fame for his selfless devotion to the republic in times of crisis and for giving up the reins of power when the crisis was over.

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Spartacus

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Gladiator who lead Roman slave revolt.

Question 47

Marius & Sulla

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Marius declared Sulla’s reforms and laws invalid, officially exiled Sulla. Sulla one the w