People Flashcards

0
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Sage, philosopher

China

A

Confucius

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1
Q

Sacked Jerusalem, Hanging gardens

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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2
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Consolidated China

A

Guangwu

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3
Q

Taoism

A

Lao Tzu

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4
Q

Started from the bottom now he’s emperor of the Han dynasty

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Liu Bang

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5
Q

Brought Buddhism into China

A

Ming

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6
Q

First emperor of China

A

Qin

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7
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Expanded China, Confucianism state philosophy

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Wu

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8
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Led the Hun empire, stopped by the pope from sacking Rome

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Attila the Hun

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9
Q

Tried to change the religion of Egypt to monotheism

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Akhenaten

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10
Q

Led Egypt during the height of civilization

A

Amenhotep III

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11
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Helped grow Egypt

A

Hatshepsut

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12
Q

Medicine!

Egypt

A

Imhotep

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13
Q

First pharaoh, United Egypt

A

Menes

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14
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Helped her husband as pharaoh, Berlin Museum

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Nefertiti

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15
Q

Signed first peace treaty, restored religion

Egypt

A

Ramses II

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16
Q

First great tragic poet

Greek

A

Aeschylus

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17
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Macedonia, major conquests, Hellenistic period

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Alexander the Great

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18
Q

Created sundial, first maps

Greek

A

Anaximander

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19
Q

Accounted for earthquakes and lightning

Greek

A

Anaximenes

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20
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Inventor, Syracuse

Greek

A

Archimedes

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21
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Wrote comedies

Greek

A

Aristophanes

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22
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Student of Plato, taught Alexander the Great, logic

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Aristotle

23
Q

Writer, orator, statesman

Greek

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Demosthenes

24
Q

Philosopher, elements were building blocks

Greek

A

Empedocles

25
Q

Mathematician, created latitude and longitude

Greek

A

Eratosthenes

26
Q

Geometry!

Greek

A

Euclid

27
Q

Last Greek tragic poet

A

Euripides

28
Q

Kosmos!

Greek

A

Heraclitus

29
Q

History!

Greek

A

Herodotus

30
Q

Trigonometry, astrology

Greek

A

Hipparchus

31
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Doctor

Greek

A

Hippocrates

32
Q

Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, blind, Trojan war

Greek

A

Homer

33
Q

Poet, void

Greek

A

Parmenides

34
Q

Leader of Athens, navy

Greek

A

Pericles

35
Q

Alexander’s dad, Macedonian

A

Philip

36
Q

Greatest Greek lyric poet

A

Pindar

37
Q

Student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, elitist (Greek)

A

Plato

38
Q

Biographer

Greek

A

Plutarch

39
Q

General under Alexander the Great, Pharaoh or Egypt

A

Ptolemy

40
Q

Female love poet

A

Sappho

41
Q

General under Alexander the Great controlled Persia

A

Seleucus

42
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Socratic method, pursuit of knowledge, drank hemlock

A

Socrates

43
Q

Dictator of Greece, massive reform

A

Solon

44
Q

Great Greek tragic poet

A

Sophocles

45
Q

Scientific method, eclipses

Greek

A

Thales

46
Q

Built navy to defend xerxes/Persia

Greek

A

Themistocles

47
Q

Wrote history of Pelopenesian wars

Greek

A

Thucydides

48
Q

Religion, free will

Greek

A

Zoroaster

49
Q

Greatly expanded India

A

Ashoka

50
Q

Founded Buddhism

A

Siddhartha

51
Q

Monotheism (Israel)

A

Abraham

52
Q

King of Israel, psalms

A

David

53
Q

10 commandments! Exodus!

A

Moses

54
Q

Code of Hammurabi. (Mesopotamia)

A

Hammurabi

55
Q

Leader in the Middle East. (Mesopotamia)

A

Sargon the great