Mid-Term🤓 Flashcards
T- leader of Persia at the height of its power
Darius the great
T- what has happened in the past
History
T- the most important source for a historian
Written records
T- a scattering, happened to the Jews
Diaspora
T- the beginning of Israel
Abrahamic covenant
T- Egyptian writing
Hieroglyphics
T- pharaoh who united upper and lower Egypt
Menes
T- established the code of laws
Hammurabi
T- established the very first empire ever
Sargon 1
T- the leading Phoenician city state
Tyre
T- the city where the Persian Royal Road began
Susa
T- where Jonah went
Nineveh
T- epic Greek poem
The odyssey
T- the basic political unit of Greece
Polis
T- rule by few
Oligarchy
T- rule by the people
Democracy
T- the chief magistrate of Egypt
Archon
T- was the first Athenian leader to take a step toward democracy
Solon
T- the leader of the Persians who attacked Greece in 480 bc
Xerxes
T- no event in history out of God’s control
Devine providence
T- United Macedonia and extended his kingdom into Greece
Philip II
T- the father of philisophy
Thales
T- developed a geometric theorem still used today
Pythagoras
T- a three step logical process of thinking
Syllogism
T- lovers of wisdom
Philosophers
T- like the Greek
Hellenistic
T- an alliance among the Greek city states to protect themselves from Persian attacks
Deldalian league
T- the name of slaves in Sparta
Helotes
T- goddess of wisdom
Athena
T- poems that provided a glimpse of early Greek life
Homer
T- after of medicine
Hippocrates
T- philosopher who believed that absolute truth could be obtained through human reason
Socrates
T- conquered most of the known world of his day
Alexander
T- temple dedicated to Athena
Parthenon
T- the mountain pass where Spartans fought Persians to the death
Thermopylae