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T- leader of Persia at the height of its power

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Darius the great

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T- what has happened in the past

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History

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T- the most important source for a historian

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Written records

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T- a scattering, happened to the Jews

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Diaspora

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T- the beginning of Israel

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Abrahamic covenant

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T- Egyptian writing

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Hieroglyphics

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T- pharaoh who united upper and lower Egypt

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Menes

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T- established the code of laws

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Hammurabi

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T- established the very first empire ever

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Sargon 1

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T- the leading Phoenician city state

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Tyre

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T- the city where the Persian Royal Road began

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Susa

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T- where Jonah went

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Nineveh

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T- epic Greek poem

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The odyssey

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T- the basic political unit of Greece

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Polis

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T- rule by few

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Oligarchy

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T- rule by the people

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Democracy

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T- the chief magistrate of Egypt

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Archon

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T- was the first Athenian leader to take a step toward democracy

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Solon

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T- the leader of the Persians who attacked Greece in 480 bc

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Xerxes

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T- no event in history out of God’s control

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Devine providence

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T- United Macedonia and extended his kingdom into Greece

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Philip II

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T- the father of philisophy

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Thales

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T- developed a geometric theorem still used today

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Pythagoras

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T- a three step logical process of thinking

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Syllogism

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T- lovers of wisdom

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Philosophers

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T- like the Greek

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Hellenistic

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T- an alliance among the Greek city states to protect themselves from Persian attacks

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Deldalian league

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T- the name of slaves in Sparta

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Helotes

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29
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T- goddess of wisdom

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Athena

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T- poems that provided a glimpse of early Greek life

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Homer

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T- after of medicine

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Hippocrates

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T- philosopher who believed that absolute truth could be obtained through human reason

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Socrates

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T- conquered most of the known world of his day

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Alexander

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T- temple dedicated to Athena

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Parthenon

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T- the mountain pass where Spartans fought Persians to the death

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Thermopylae

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T- the island where the earliest center of civilization in the age an region began

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Crete

37
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T- our sea

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Mare nostrum

38
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A small bundle of rods which I closed an axe that symbolized early Roman power

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Faces

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T- the most important and governing body in the Roman republic

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t- Senate

40
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t- the privlaged class

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patricians

41
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t- the common people

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pleabians

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t- young carthiginian commander who marched elephants to the alps in order to defeat rome

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hanibal

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t- a tribune who became a spokesman for the common man in rome

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tiberious

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t- he declared himself a dictator over rome after defeating marious in the first roman civil war

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sulla

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T- member of triumvirate with crasses and pompei

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jullious ceacar

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t- a young roman commander with a daring stadegy that helped rome with the second punic war

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scipio

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t- the greatest roman poet who wrote anied

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virgil

48
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t- the empror when jesus was crucified

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tierious

49
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t- the roman period of peace

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pax romana

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t- the first empror of rome

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Octavian

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t- man who destroyed Jerusalem ad 70

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titus

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t- a roman historian who lived in the agustian age

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livy

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t- the roman emperor who conducted the persecution of christians

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diocleation

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t- the act that leagalized Christianity

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edict of milan

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t- the emperor who legalized Christianity

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constantine

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t- wrote metamorhisis which was banned by the emperor

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ovid

57
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t- fierce Mongolian warriors from central asia

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tartars

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t- a kievien ruller who adopted christianity

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vladimier I

59
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t- sweetish norsemen

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varangians

60
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t- people who conqured constinople and killed the last bisintine emperor

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ottoman turks

61
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t- the bazintine emperor who was known as the bulger slayer

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basil II

62
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t- exclusion of the fellowship of the catholic church

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excommunicated

63
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t- the finest example of bazintine arcitechure

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hagia Sophia

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t- another name for contintinople

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new rome

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t- a systematic bazitine arrangement of laws that clarified legal roman principles

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Justinian code

66
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t- the aniolation of the bizintine army by the celigic turks

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battle of manzikert

67
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who is the most important person in history?

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Jehovah the one true God

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Name three limitations that Christians face as they attempt to study history with devine providence in mind.

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our lack of knowlage of the past, our own falleness, and our ignorance of God’s will

69
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the Amorite civilization was centered in what capital city?

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Babylon

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Name the three promises that make up the Abrahamic covenant.

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promise of decendents, promise of land, and promise for blessings for all peoples of the earth

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How did the Persians and peloponisian wars affect the unity of the greeks?

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the Persian wars brought temporary unity to the greeks where as the peloponisian war pitted greek against greek

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List the three rulling families that rulled alexander’s empire after his death.

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the Ptolemies- Egypt, Selucids- Syria and Persia, and the Antigonids- Macedonia and Greece

73
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who was the influencial leader of Athens during her “Golden Age”?

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perciles

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List and define the four basic types of government found in greek city-states.

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democracy- rule by the people, monarchy- rule by one, oligarchy- rule by few, tyranny- rule by force

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What responcibility did the publicans have in roman society?

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collecting taxes

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list the differences between carthage and rome at the outset of the punic wars.

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Carthage was superior at sea and relied on mercenary troops while rome was superior at land, and had a superior political system, and relied on citizen soilders

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What power did the tribunes get to exarsize over unjust act of patrician officials?

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veto

78
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In what year was the city of rome founded?

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753 BC

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At what place did Octavian defeat Anthony in the third civil war?

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the battle of Actum in 31 BC

80
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List three titles or names by which Octavian was called.

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Ceacar, Agustus, the princepts

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What city was covered by the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvious and not recoverd until the 18th century?

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Pompeii

82
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Acording to the apostle Paul, what is the gospel?

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1 Corinthians 15:1-4, That it is our own word in which we have learned from him

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List three economic problems troubling rome in the late days of the empire.

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decline and revenue, increased tax burden, and inflation.

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List three reasons for rome’s decline.

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political disorder, economic trouble, and moral decay

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Durring the reign of _, the “New Babylonian” empire reached it’s height.

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Nebuchadnezzar

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The promised messiah came from the family of_.

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David

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_ _ is a term that is used to describe the resuts of the fall.

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human depravity

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The first command from God, often called the _ _, reveals mankind’s reason for being.

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creation mandate

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_ is a complex cultural institution in which humans share core values and a desire to improve the quality of their existence.

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civilization

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