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Midterm 2016 Flashcards

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Means division

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Peleg

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Site of first postdiluvian civilization

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Sumer

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History’s second great empire builder

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Sargon of Akkad

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Developed world’s most ancient law code

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Ur-Nammu

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World’s oldest work of literature outside of bible

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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First empire to rule Middle East

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Babylon

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Built world’s first great library at Nineveh

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Ashurbanipal

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Cyrus the great

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New Babylonian empire

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World’s first postal service

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Darius 1

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Queen Esther’s husband

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Xerxes I

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Ahasuerus

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Xerxes I

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First true alphabet

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Sinai script

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When was Israel the greatest nation under rule of david and Solomon

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1000 BC

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14
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When did northern kingdom of Israel fall to assyrians

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721 BC

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When did southern kingdom of Israel fall to babylonians

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586 BC

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Destruction of Jerusalem

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AD 70

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17
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Hegira

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“Flight”

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Asia’s 3 great fertile river valleys

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Tigris-Euphrates, Indus, Huang He

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Where are Himalayan mountains

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India

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20
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Pariah

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Bottom of caste system, untouchable

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21
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Siddhartha Guatama

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Buddhism

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Guptas

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AD 320-535

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India’s golden age

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Guptas (AD 320-535)

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World’s oldest living civilization

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China

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China’s 2 great river systems

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Huang He &a Yangtze

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China’s Sorrow

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Huang He river

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Shang dynasty

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1525-1028 BC

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Chou dynasty

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1122-256 BC

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29
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Dynasty Developed writing

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Shang

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30
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China’s longest ruling dynasty

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Chou

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31
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First emperor of united china

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Shin Huang Ti

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32
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Great Wall of China

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Ch’in Dynasty

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33
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Which dynasty: great Silk Road

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Han dynasty

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34
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Largest continental empire in history

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Genghis Khan

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Nippon

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Source of the sun

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36
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Ainu

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Original inhabitants of Japan

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37
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Shinto

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Oldest surviving religion in Japan

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38
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Mikado

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Emperor

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39
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First Pharaoh of all Egypt

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Memes

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40
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Father of history

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Herodotus

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41
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Female pharaoh

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Hatshepsut

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42
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Extended boarders to farthest extent

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Thutmose III

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43
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Founded new kingdom in Egypt

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Ahmose I

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44
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Pharaoh during Hebrew exodus

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Amenhotep II

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45
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Established a Hellenistic (Greek) dynasty

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Ptolemy

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World’s largest desert

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Kalahari desert

47
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Africas tallest mountain

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Mount Kilimanjaro

48
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Africas largest lake, source of Nile

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Lake Victoria

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Greatest ancient civilization in africas interior

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Kingdom of Cush

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First African on record to become Christian

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Ethiopian Eunich

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Aegean civilization

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Minoans, Mycenaeans, Trojans

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First important European civilization after flood

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Minoans

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Emerged the hellenes

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Mycenaeans

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Hellenes

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1100-800 BC / Mycenaeans

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Homer wrote

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Iliad & Odyssey

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Persian king, crushed Ionian revolt

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Darius I

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490 BC / Darius (Persians vs Greece)

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Greco-Persian wars

58
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Narrow mountain pass in central Greece near Aegean Sea

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Thermopylae

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Athenian who tricked Xerxes

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Themistocles

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Pelopponesian League

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Sparta

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Draco’s Code

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Every offense punishable by death

62
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Brought Athenian democracy to fullest measure

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Pericles

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Golden age of Greece

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Age of pericles

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Pelopponesian war

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431-404 BC / Sparta vs Athens

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King of Macedonia/ wanted to capture all of Greece

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Philip II

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Famous Athenian orator and statesman

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Demosthenes

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Greek city-states

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Hellenic League

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700-338 BC / classical age of Greece - when Greece flourished

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Hellenic age

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Said, “man is the measure of all things”

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Protagoras

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Parthenon

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Athens

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Father of history

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Herodotus

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Father of medicine

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Hippocrates

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Asked, “what is the best way to live?”

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Socrates

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Crossed Hellespont in 334 BC / Philip II son

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Alexander the Great

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Inspired by Socrates / wrote The Republic

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Plato

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Student of Plato / concluded that order of universe must have come from God

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Aristotle

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323-30 BC

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Hellenistic Age

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Pietas
Gravitas
Dignitas

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Piety- sense of duty
Gravity- seriousness of purpose
Dignity- sense of personal worth

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Founding of Rome

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753 BC

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Upper class “insiders”

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Patricians

81
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Lower class “outsiders”

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Plebeians

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Pantheon

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Rome

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Roman republic

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509 BC

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509 BC

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Roman republic

85
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Hannibal

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2nd Punic war

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Tiberius Gracchus

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Roman tribune

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Sulla

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Champion of senate

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Marius

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Idol of Masses

89
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Massage disobeyed and crossed

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Rubicon river

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Caesar stabbed to death

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March 15, 44 BC

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Pax Romana

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30BC- AD180

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Claudia emperors

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Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero

93
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Buried Pompeii

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Mt. Vesuvius

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Stone wall built in Britain

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Hadrian’s wall

95
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Rules empire after Pax Romana

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Barracks emperors

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Edict of Milan

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Constantine (legalized Christianity)

97
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Divided Rome into East and West in AD 395

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Theodosius I

98
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Tiber river

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Rome

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700-338 BC

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Hellenic

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323-30 BC

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Hellenistic

101
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Rome’s 1st civil war

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Marius vs. Sulla

102
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Marius supported by…

Sulla supported by…

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Masses

Senate

103
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Second civil war

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Julius Caesar vs. Pompey

104
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Caesar supported by…

Pompey supported by…

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Masses

Senate

105
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Third civil war

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Octavian vs. Mark Antony

106
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Octavian supported by…

Mark Antony supported by…

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Masses

Sent

107
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Rome’s sewage system

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Claudius

108
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Aegean civilization

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Minoans- 2000 BC
Mycenaeans- 1900 BC
Dorians- 1100-800 BC

109
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Division of new Greek Empire
Ptolemies…
Seleucids…
Antigonids…

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Egypt (Cleopatra part of)
Syria, Mesopotamia
Macedonia, Greece

110
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Builder of first world empire

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Nimrod

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