Section 11 Vocab

Question 1

Alexander the Great

Answer 1

ruler of Greece in fourth century B.C.; he conquered most of the ancient world, extending the civilization of Greece east to India

Question 2

Athens

Answer 2

leading city of ancient Greece

Question 3

Augustus Caesar

Answer 3

the first emperor of Rome

Question 4

Aztecs

Answer 4

Native American people who ruled Mexico and neighboring areas before the Spaniards conquered them

Question 5

Babylon

Answer 5

a city in ancient Mesopotamia famed for its hanging gardens

Question 6

Francis Bacon

Answer 6

An English politician, scientist, and author during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Question 7

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Answer 7

first European to discover the Pacific Ocean

Question 8

Thomas a Becket

Answer 8

Was archbishop of Canterbury; four of the king’s men, thinking that the king wanted Becket put to death, murdered him

Question 9

Black Death

Answer 9

a disease that killed nearly half the people of western Europe in the fourteenth century

Question 10

Anne Bolyn

Answer 10

second wife of King Henry VIII; mother of Queen Elizabeth I; convicted of adultery and beheaded

Question 11

Bronze Age

Answer 11

roughly 4000 B.C. to the onset of the Iron Age

Question 12

Brutus

Answer 12

Roman politician who helped assassinate his friend Julius Caesar

Question 13

Byzantine Empire

Answer 13

centered at Constantinople; began as the eastern portion of the Roman Empire

Question 14

Caligula

Answer 14

A cruel and insane ruler of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.

Question 15

Carthage

Answer 15

ancient city in north Africa; commercial and political rival of Rome; At the end of the Punic Wars, the Romans destroyed Carthage

Question 16

Cato

Answer 16

a politician of ancient Rome; had a custom of ending all his speeches in the Roman senate with the words “Carthage must be destroyed.”

Question 17

chivalry

Answer 17

methods of training and standards of behavior for knights in the Middle Ages

Question 18

classical antiquity

Answer 18

the age of ancient history dominated by the cultures of Greece and Rome

Question 19

Cleopatra

Answer 19

queen of Egypt in the first century B.C. famous for her beauty, charm, and luxurious living

Question 20

conquistadors

Answer 20

Spanish military leaders who established Spanish rule in the New World