section 14 vocab Flashcards
His rule is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Greece
Pericles
Under the Kings Darius and Xerxes they attempted to conquer Greece several times in the fifth century B.C. but were defeated
Persian Empire
The Kings of ancient Egypt
Pharaohs
The Phoenicians were famed as traders and sailors. They developed an alphabet that was eventually adapted by the Greeks and Romans into the alphabet used today
Phoenicia
Spanish conquistador who overthrew the rulers of the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
An Italian explorer; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia
Marco Polo
City of the Roman Empire; destroyed in the first century by an eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius
Pompeii
A Spanish conquistador who named Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
Juan Ponce de Leon
Ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the movements of the planets along with the sun and the stars revolved around the Earth
Ptolemy
Between ancient Carthage and Rome
Punic Wars
Huge monuments built as burial vaults for the pharaohs
Pyramids
A religious movement that began as an attempted reform of the Roman Catholic Church but resulted in the founding of Protestant churches
Reformation
The cultural rebirth from the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries
Renaissance
An English King who fought in the Crusades
Richard the Lion-Hearted
A series of wars fought by two English houses; the House of Lancaster had a red rose as its emblem; the House of York had a white rose
Wars of the Roses
