Section 11 Vocab Flashcards
Alexander the Great
ruler of Greece in fourth century B.C.; he conquered most of the ancient world, extending the civilization of Greece east to India
Athens
leading city of ancient Greece
Augustus Caesar
the first emperor of Rome
Aztecs
Native American people who ruled Mexico and neighboring areas before the Spaniards conquered them
Babylon
a city in ancient Mesopotamia famed for its hanging gardens
Francis Bacon
An English politician, scientist, and author during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
first European to discover the Pacific Ocean
Thomas a Becket
Was archbishop of Canterbury; four of the king’s men, thinking that the king wanted Becket put to death, murdered him
Black Death
a disease that killed nearly half the people of western Europe in the fourteenth century
Anne Bolyn
second wife of King Henry VIII; mother of Queen Elizabeth I; convicted of adultery and beheaded
Bronze Age
roughly 4000 B.C. to the onset of the Iron Age
Brutus
Roman politician who helped assassinate his friend Julius Caesar
Byzantine Empire
centered at Constantinople; began as the eastern portion of the Roman Empire
Caligula
A cruel and insane ruler of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.
Carthage
ancient city in north Africa; commercial and political rival of Rome; At the end of the Punic Wars, the Romans destroyed Carthage