Midterm Exam Flashcards
Definition of people
This poet wrote the Iliad and the odyssey which are some of the few sources we have for “Dark Age” Greece
Homer
Was put to death in 399 BCE for corrupting the youth of Athens
Socrates
This war ended with a “victory” for Sparta over Athens in 404 BCE
The Great Peloponnesian War
Tutor of Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Helped to create the demes in Athens and was most responsible for the creation of Athenian democracy
Cleisthenes
Started a war in 49 BCE by crossing the rubicon river
Julius Ceaser
This Carthaginian general invaded Italy in 218 BCE by crossing the alps and brought along 18 war elephants.
Hannibal
This Roman politician ended most of the speeches he gave with the phrase “Carthage must be destroyed”
Cato the elder
He was the elder of two brothers that were radical reformers in early Rome
Tiberius Graccbus
He was twice elected as dictator of the Roman people and gave power back each time
Cincinnatus
Julius Caesar’s nephew, Rome’s first emperor (never held that official title)
Augustus
First Christian Roman emperor
Constantine the Great
He argued that Christianity was not bringing about the collapse of the Roman Empire
St. Augustine of Hippo
Byzantine emperor, had Body of Roman Law (Corpus juries civilis) compiled in his reign
Justinian
Brought stability back to the Roman Empire in 284 CE and divided the empire into a tetrarchy
Diocletian
