Quizlet World History People 1st Nine Weeks

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  1. Aeschylus: Wrote only complete tradgedy we possess today, Oresteia
  2. Akhenaton: introduced Aton, god of the sun disk, as the sole god
  3. Akkadians: "Semitic people" north of the Sumerian city-states
  4. Alexander the Great: Became macedonia's king at age 20, concquered Greece and the Persian Empire
  5. Antony: Caesars's ally and assistant, took the east side of Rome, part of second Triumverate
  6. Archimedes: worked on geometry of spheres and cylinders, and established the value of pi. Practical inventor
  7. Aristotle: argued that one should be loyal and patriotic to their state
  8. Aristotle: Believed in examining the thing itself not their essence, believed there was no eternal world
  9. Assyrians: Semitic-speaking people who exploited hte use of iron weapons to establish and empire
  10. Augustus: "the revered one" same as Octavian
  11. Cleisthenes: created the foundations for Athenian democracy
  12. Cleopatra VII: tried to reestablish Egypt's independence with involvement with Rome
  13. Constantine: became the first Christian emperor, issued Edict of Milan, and founded Constantinople
  14. Constantine: like Diocletian, strengthened and enlarged administrative bureaucracies, enlarged army and public service
  15. Crassus: richest man in rome, and was part of the first Triumverate
  16. Cyrus: unified nomadic groups into the powerful Persian state that stretched from asia Minor to western India
  17. Darius: added a new Persian empire in western India that extended to the Indus River
  18. Darius: first Persian ruler to attack and seek revenge on Greece
  19. Diocletian: divided Rome into 4 units and each with its own ruler
  20. Donald Johanson: discoverer of australopithecines
  21. Eratosthenes: determined the Earth was round and calculated its circumference
  22. Etuscans: People living in Etruria, development of Rome was influenced by these people
  23. Euclid: wrote The Elements, a textbook on plane Geometry
  24. Hammurabi: created new Mesopotamian Kingdom, and made the Code of Hammurabi
  25. Hannibal: the greatest of the Carthaginian generals, led army through the mountain pass, many died and were defeated by the Romans
  26. Hatshepsut: the first woman to become pharoah
  27. Hittites: first peoples to make and use iron and threatened power of the Egyptians, lived in Asia minor
  28. Homer: epic poem writer, wrote Illiad and Odyssey
  29. Horace: prominent augustan poet, wrote satires
  30. Huns: came from Asia and moved into Europe and put pressure on the Visigoths
  31. Hyksos: western-asians that invaded Egypt and fought with horse-drawn war chariots
  32. Immortals: infantry force whose numbers were never below 10,000
  33. Indo-Europeans: people who used a language derived from a single parent tounge
  34. Isaiah: Jewish prophet who visioned the end of all wars and peace for all nations of the world
  35. Israelites: Semitic-speaking people who leaved in commonday Isreal
  36. Jesus: son of god, jewish prophet and preached throughout Judea, sacrificed himself to forgive all sins
  37. Julius Caesar: successful commander in Spain and military hero, became the dicator from the first Triumverate
  38. King Solomon: ruled iraelites and known for his widom, and built the temple in Jerusalem
  39. Latins: people who lived in the region of Latium
  40. Livy: provided a number of short stories to teach Romans the virtues that had made Rome great
  41. Livy: wrote the most famous Lani prose work- the History of Rome
  42. Menes: the king united the villages of upper and lower egypt into a single kingdom and created the first Egyptian royal dynasty
  43. Mesoamericans: inhabitants of present-day Mexico and Central America
  44. Minoans: earliest greek civilization, settled on Crete, known for shipbuilding, capital Knossos, discovered by Arthur Evans
  45. Myscenaeans: discovered by Heinrich Scliemann, inland greeks, conquered Minoans, alliance of kings
  46. Nebuchadnezzar: Chaldean king who made Babylonia their empire and leading state in western Asia
  47. Nero: Killed innocent people and started the presecution of Christians
  48. Octavian: part of the second Triumverate, and took the west side of Rome
  49. Paul of Tarsus: hichly educated Jewish Roman citizen and founded Christian commmunities throughout Asia Minor
  50. Pericles: dominant figure in Athenian politcs and made a direct democracy and set up an ostracism
  51. Persians: Indo-European who lived in now what is called Iran, one of the largest empires of the world
  52. Philip II: king of Macedonia and turned Macedonia into the cheif power of the greek world
  53. Phoenicians: lived in the area of Palestine, great shipbuilders, known for their 22 character alphabet
  54. Plato: greatest philosopher of Western civilization. Believed a higher eternal world existed
  55. Pompey: Successful commander in Spain and military hero, part of the first Triumverate
  56. priests: supervised rituals and aimed at pleasing the gods
  57. Pythagoras: Pythagorean theorem, taught that the universe was made of music and numbers
  58. Ramses II: under him Egyptians gained control of Palestine, but could not reestablish their borders
  59. Romulus Augustulus: western emperor, deposed by the Germanic head of the army
  60. Sargon: leader of Akkadians overran Sumerian city-states and set up the first empire in world history
  61. Simon Peter: a Jewish fisherman and follow of Jesus, leader of the apostles
  62. Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living." question and answer format of learning
  63. Solon: Athenian reforminded aristocrat, freed all people who became slaves due to debts
  64. Sophocles: Wrote the famous play Oedipus Rex
  65. Spartacus: gladiator, led a sucessful slave revolt in Italy
  66. Sumerians: creaters of the first Meospotamian civilization
  67. Theodosius the Great: under him Romans adopted Christianity as their official religion
  68. Theucydides: greatest historian of the ancient world, wrote History of the Peloponnesian War
  69. Tutankhamen: Akhenaton's son who restored the old gods
  70. Vandals: poured into southern Spain and Africa, and sacked Rome for the second time
  71. Virgil: most distinguished poet of the Augustan Age - Aeneid
  72. Visigoths: moved south and west and reolted against the Romans
  73. Xerxes: vowed revenge and invaded Greece, was stopped at Platea
  74. Zoroaster: came up with Zoarasterism wrote down in Zend Avesta