Mid Term Flashcards
Polis
Greek city-states
Athens and Sparta
Two traditional enemy city states
Hatshepsut
The famous female pharaoh
Legacy a of Ancient Greek
Philosophy, astronomy, architecture, democracy
Aristocracy
A form of government ruled by the wealthy elite
Democracy
Form of government run by the people
Women in Athens
Taking care of their children and family,
Delian leagues
The alliance between the Greek city states
Monarchy
Government run by a king
Oligarchy
Government run by a small group of people
Voting in Athens
Make land owners
Pericles
Was a famous statesmen or politician
Two Greek genres of Greek plays
Tragedy and comedy
Most famous Greek philosophers
Aristotle Plato and Socrates
Peloponnesian war
Sparta won
Parthenon in the Acropolis
Dedicated to Athena
Alexander the Great was a student of
Aristotle
Alexander’s empire
Extended from Macedonia to India
Hellenistic culture
Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Persian
A story about the gods that the Greeks wrote
Mythology
The academy
The name for the cool that Plato founded
How did
Poisonous hemlock
The languages that derived from Latin
Romance languages
Italian Spanish French Portuguese
How did the people of Pompeii die
A volcanic eruption
Julius Cesar
Held the title of dictator of the time of assassination by the Spanish
Alaska land bridge
Scholars believe the first people to arrive in America came from
Maya cities
Well known for their stone temples and palaces
Maya people
Did not own things it was owned by pachacuti in a upanchi
What did the clan mother do
Removed members from the council
Incas kept record of history with
Kepu knots
All roads in the inca empire lead to
The capital cusco
Maize
The most important crop of the survival of early Americans
Inflation
The fast increase of prices
Diocletian
Divided the Roman empi into two parts
Constantinople
The city that Constantine made
How did the incas carry messages to each other
Relay runners
Maya writing system is
Hieroglyphics
Israelites reaching cannan
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