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1
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after the death of solomon, first 2 kings of divided kingdom of Judah and Israel

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rehoboam and jeroboam

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2
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king of israel forced to pay tribute to Assyrian King shalmanesar III

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Jehu

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3
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Son of Esarhaddon appointed as King of Babylonia who rose against assyria and was eventually crushed by his own brother assurbanipal

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Shamash-shum-ukin

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4
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Chaldean Ruler of Babylonia in the late 8th century

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Marduk-apla-iddina

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5
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Babylonian King who took Jerusalem at the beginning of the 6th century and who kept the city of Tyre under siege for 13 years

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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6
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Median King who entered a treaty with nabopolassar to fight the assyrians together

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cyaxares

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7
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Last king of Babylon before Cyrus II conquered it in 539

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nabonidus

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8
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achaemenid king whose navy and infantry were defeated at salamis(480) and Plataea (479) respectively

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Xerxes

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9
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names of 3 egyptian kings of Dynasty IV for whome the pyramids of Giza were built

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Khufu, Khafre, Mankaure

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10
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Foreign Group that ruled Egypt during the second intermediate period (Dynasty XV)

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Hyksos

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11
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Woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XII, in the Middle Kingdom

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Sobeknefru

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12
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woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XVIII in the New Kingdom

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Hatshepsut

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13
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Name of Akhenaten’s wife

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Nefertari

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14
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site in a mining area in the sinai, at which a strong northwest semitic presence can be detected (graffitti included) during the middle kingdom

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Serabit el-Khadim

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15
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Famous Egyptian city inhabited by craftsmen and artists during the New Kingdom, at which a number of administrative & economic ostraca and papyri have been found

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deir el-Medina

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16
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Site on the island of Thera, in the Cyclades famous for it’s frescoes dating to the Minoan Period

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Akrotiri

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17
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German excavator who found Troy and dug at Mycenae

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Schliemann

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18
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English archaeologist who excavated Knossos and gave its name to the Minoan Period

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Evans

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19
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Script in which the first text in the Greek language are preserved

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Linear B

20
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Three main cities in Continental Greece during the mycenaen period

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mycenae, pylos, & Thebes

21
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Spartan assembly that consisted of 30 elders, including 2 kings

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gerousia

22
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term used to refer to the serfs of the spartan state (e.g. the population of Messenia)

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helots

23
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athenian politician under whose aegis the parthenon was built

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Pericles

24
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Spartan general who invaded Attica in 431, during the first phase of the Peloponnnesian War

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Archidamus

25
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Athenian Politician who proposed the annihilate the whole male pop. of Mytilene (in Lesbos) after their revolt in 428

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Cleon

26
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Sicilian City that was a target of a disastrous Athenian Naval Expedition in 415-413

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Syracuse

27
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Persian king against whom his brother Cyrus organized the expedition of the so-called “Ten Thousand”

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Artaxerxes II

28
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Greek historian who wrote a famous account of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides

29
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Greek historian who participated in and then wrote about the expedition of the so-called “Ten Thousand” organized by Cyrus

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Xenophon

30
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Final Battle of the Peloponnesian war in which the Athenian fleet was destroyed in 405

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Aegospotami

31
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Battle in which Philip II of Macedonia defeated an alliance of theban and athenian forces

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Chareonea

32
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Orator who advocated the Athenian opposition against Philip II of Macedonia-

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Demostenes

33
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Name of the Spear used by the Macedonian Phalanx formation

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sarissa

34
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Theban general who commande the Boeotian League at battles Leuctra (371) and Mantinaea (362) and put an end to spartan supremacy in Greece

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Epaminondas

35
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League created by Philip II of Macedonia which established a federation of Greek States

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LEague of Corinth

36
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Before the final battle of Gaugamela (331) this is the battle in 333 where Alexander defeated Darius III and began his final assault on the Achaemenid Empire

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Issus

37
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Dynast of Macedonian Origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander’s death up to the Roman conquest

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Ptolemaic dynasty

38
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Tell- Ad-daba’a

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Avaris

39
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Croessus

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Lydia

40
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Achilles

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Patroclus

41
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Zeus

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Ganymede

42
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Hector

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Andromache

43
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Thera

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Santorini

44
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Lycrugus

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Sparta

45
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Pindar

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epinikion

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