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Ahura mazda

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Good spirit

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Polygamy

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More than one wife

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Darius

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King of kings

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Zoroaster

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Religious profit

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Ahriman

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Evil spirit

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Xerxes

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Persian leader

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10000 immortals

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Immediately replaces the injured

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Royal road

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Stretches from susa to sardis

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Bull leaping

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Religious form of bull fighting

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Labyrinth

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Or difficult network of paths

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Shrines

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Sacred place of worship

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Acropolis and polis

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Fortified hill and city state

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Agora

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Opened market place

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Aristocrates

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Nobles

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Oligarchy and democrat

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Few people and all citezens

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Triremes

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Fast war ships

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Pentathlon

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Best all around athelet

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Socratic method

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Step by step at a final conclusion

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Hypothesis

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Possible explanation

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Phalanx

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Infantry formation

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Soothsayer

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People who can predict events

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Omens

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Signs of what to come

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Catacombs

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Tombs

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Necropolis

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Cemetary

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Gladitorial games

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Gladiator games

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Municipal

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City govt

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Consuls

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Administrators and military leaders

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Veto

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Say no

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Tribunes

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Government officials who protect the rights of plebeians

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Legionaries

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5,000 soldiers

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Latifundas

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Large estates

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Dictator

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Ruler

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Triumverate

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3 ppl with equal power

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Tariff

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Taxes

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Domus

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House

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Inflation

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Increased prices

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Barter

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Exchange goods without using money

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Rule by divine right

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Power by the gods

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Parish

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Each church

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Diocese

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Group of parishes

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Bishop

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Head of dioces

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Priest

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Head of parish

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Archbishops

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Most important bishops

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Patriarchs

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5 leading archbishops

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Monastaries

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Monk communities

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Covents

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Quarters where the monks lived

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Abbot

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Leader of monestarie

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Mecca

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Holy land

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Pilgrams

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Travelers to the religious shrine

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Quran

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Muslim scriptures

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Pillars of faith

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1 pray the creed
2 pray 5 times
3 giving to charity
4 fast (sun up to down)
5 make the hajj
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Mosque

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House of worship

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Imam

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Prayer leader

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Zakah

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Caliph

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Vizier

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Chief adviser

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Myceneans

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Came from russia

57
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The minoans

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Built ships grew grapes wheat abd barley

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Sparta

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Military state

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Zeus

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God of gods

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Plato

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Socrates student who writes

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Socrates

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Teacher and was killed for corrupting young minds

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Olympics

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Only men played , running was only event, men ran naked, it ended after Theodosius made Christianity legal

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City states

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Cities and surrounding territories

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Parthenon

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For athena built during the golden age of athens

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Leonidus

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Leader of the spartan 300

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Marathon

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Battle where greeks won

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Thermoplylae

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Where battle of 300 was

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Euclid

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Wrote geometry book fundamentals

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Draco

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Wrote a harsh code of law where death comes to all in fractions

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Solon

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Canceled all debt and divide into 4 social classes

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Helot

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Slave in sparta

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Hoplites

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Large infantry men

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Delian league

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Created to form alliance from any persian attack

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Golden age of greece

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Athens used all the money from the delian league making the economy flourish causing the peloponnesian war

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Peloponnesian war

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War where the greek cities kicked athens ass, athens lost due to war plaque and fatique

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Cleistenes

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Created the council of 500 to prep matters to present to the popular assembly

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Athena

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Born Out of Zeus’s head, killed best weaver of Athens and turned her into a spider

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of love and desire

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Zoroaster believed what was the biggest sin and what did they do to the dead

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Lying and vultures ate the dead

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What was the royal road

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It was a message route and it had 111 post and stetched from sardis to susa

81
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Who found egypt

82
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What was the royal mail

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Neither rain or steal Noredark of the night will keep our Curriers from their appointed rounds

83
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Describe knossos

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It had roof has an entrance of the home it had priest kings it was polytheistic, sacred horns were made out of clay, the Minotaur was killed by Theseus the Minoans fell as well

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What were olives made for

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Lotion oil and fuel

85
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How did the trojan war start

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It started because a man stole another man’s wife and it ended with a Trojan horse carrying men inside infiltrating the city

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Describe spartan life

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There was no art, one of the largest great Pollis, citizens were equal, half citizens were other city states citizens

87
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How many helots were in sparta

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There were 7:1 the outnumbered there was always constant resistance

88
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Whos spartas rival

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Describe spartan society and customs

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The week kids at birth would be killed this is called instant side kids ages 7 to 8 went to boot camp men 20 years of age to 30 years of age where soldiers men 30+ years of age go home and night to their wives 30 years plus to 60 had one meal a day with soldiers to go back home at age 13 kids would use swords

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Describe greek warfare

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They used iron weapons formed a phalanx and hoplites

91
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Battle at marathon

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Miliodies was the Athenian general who won the battle at Marathon Athens won the battle at marathon phidipedies ran 26 miles screaming Nike

92
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Battle at thermopylae

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Xerxes was the Persian leader Spartans guarded the pass with 300 men they lost Athens was destroyed phonecians was supposed to guard the back pass but they deserted out of fear

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Themistocles

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Greek naval commander

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Perecles

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Athens leader during golden age

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Trireme

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Holds 7000 ppl and battering ram was used to break ships for loot

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Kufu

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How do you get a tomb in sparta

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A Spartan who dies in battle or a woman who dies in childbirth

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Hoplon lamalar dory xiphos immortal armour

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Bronze and wood sheild, armour, iron spear, sword used if dory was gone, and amour as thin as cards

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Oracles at delphi

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A sacred shrine

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Why was thermopylae chosen for battle

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Because it was a difficult and narrow place to fight

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Sophist

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Aristotle

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Platos student and science student

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Describe doric ionic corinth

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First one is playing second has scrolls third has leaves

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Alexander the great

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Conqured most if the know world, defeated persians, spread hellenism,

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Archimedes

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Mathematicians

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Aristarchos

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Hellenistic theory

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Erutosthenes

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Circumference of world

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Story of romulus and remus

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Romulus is thrown into the Tiber river he is found by shewolf he kills how Amulius settles in Rome kills brother

109
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Latins

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Come from north of alps

110
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Etruscans

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Come from asian minor

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Punic wars

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  1. Rome takes sicily, sardinia, corsica from carthage
  2. Hannible leads his troops through spain and take spanish
  3. Carthage is burned, enslaved and soil is salted
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Who lead the slave revolt

113
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Triumvirates

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  1. Julius Caesar, pompey, crasus

2, marc antony, lepidus, ocvtavian(changed his name to caesar agustus) agustus = majestic one

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Edict of milan

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Official decloration

115
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What did 1.Constantine and 2.Theodosius do?

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  1. made christianity legal

2. made christianity the official religion

116
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Where did ostrogoth, visigoths, franks, vandals and hans come from

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1+2 sweden

  1. Germany
  2. East europe
  3. Asia minor
117
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Muhammad was who

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A prophet married kadijah (15yrs older than him) spread monotheism, influenced by christians and jews The angel Gabriel tells him to write koran (holy book)

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Mecca was

119
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Masque

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House if worship

120
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Minnerets

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Tall slender towers

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Sunnis

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Muhammeds followers

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Jihad

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Arab inventions

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Algebra , medicine, ashtrolobes

124
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Did islam picture god?

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