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76 Cards in this Set
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Greek culture after the time of Alexander the Great mixed with that of the cultures of various eastern nations, this mixed Greek culture is today called?
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Hellenistic
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What Greek ruler of Syria persecuted the Jews and instituted idol worship in the Temple in Jerusalem
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Antiochus IV
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The Bosci were?
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Grazers; ascetic Christians who eat grass
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The Minoan Civilization was centered on what island?
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Crete
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What seems to have caused the end of the Minoan Civilization
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The Eruption of the Thera Volcano
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Alexander the Great followed his father Phillip II as the king of what nation?
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Macedonia
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What Persian king did alexander the great defeat?
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Darius III
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Under which Greek leader did Athens reach the zenith of its military power and the peak of its cultural development?
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Pericles
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What happened at the Battle of Salamis in 479 BC that was so important for the future of Greece?
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Greek navy defeated the Persians
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In which battle did the famous 300 spartans fight?
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Battle of Thermopylae
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Which man was responsible for killing Alexander the Great's family?
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Casandor
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The members of the first true emperor of the Roman Empire?
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Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompei
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Which was not a provision of the Benedictine Rule?
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Marriage
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Who was the first true emperor of the Roman Empire?
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Caesar Augustus
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What famous general led the Carthagenians and almost defeated Rome in the 2nd
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Hannibal the Great
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Ancient, heavily armed, Greek, infantry soldiers were called?
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Hoplites
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Which two cities fought each other in the Pelopnnesian Wars?
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Athens and Sparta
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The monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy was founded by?
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St. Benedict
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Pachomius was the founder of?
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Christian Monasticism
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Which was not one of the four great Greek famlies which divided the Empire of Alexander the Great into four kingdoms?
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Attalios, Ptolomies, Selucids, Antigonids
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The lower class people of ancient Greece were called?
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Demoi
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The upper class people of ancient Greece were called?
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Aristo
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A trireme was?
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A Greek warship
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Which Jewish group was violently opposed to Roman rule?
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Zealots
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The Pax Romana was?
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a period of relative peace under Casear August' rule
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Which Roman emperor went totally insane?
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Nero
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Which Roman general and future Roman emperor defeated the Jews in 70 AD and burned their Temple?
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Titus
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Which Roman Emperor is famous for building an extensive all weather road system in the Roman empire?
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Caesae Augustus
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The Roman Republic lasted from?
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509-31BC
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On what island did the Athenians lose their entire fleet of 50000 men during the Peloppenesian War?
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Sicily
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King of Hell
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Hades
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Parthenon was her temple
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Athena
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Known to Romans as Diana
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Artemis
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Goddess of the hearth and family
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Vesta
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Same as Roman god Mars
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Ares
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Known to the Romans as Venus
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Aphrodite
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Greek god of the sea
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Neptune
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King of gods for Greeks
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Zeus
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Greek god of win and orgies
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Dionysus
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Wife of Jupiter
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Juno
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Blacksmith of the gods
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Hepaestus
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Oracle of Delphi
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Apollo
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The Pelloponnesian Wars
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Thucydides
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The Republic
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Plato
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The City of God
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Augstine
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The Anabasis
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Xenophan
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The Koran
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Muhammad
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Latin Vulgate
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St. Jerome
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Corpus Juris Civilis
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Justinian I
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The Aeneid
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Vergil
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Wars of the Jews
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Josephus
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OedipusRex
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Sophocles
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The Iliad
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Homer
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The Histories
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Heroditus
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The Bacchae
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Euripedes
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Earth rotates on its axis
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Heracleides
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Calculated the size of the earth
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Eratosthenes
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Build Paros Lighthouse
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Sostratus
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Father of geometry
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Euclid
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Theory of Atoms
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Democritus
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Discovered nerves
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Herophilus
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Tides caused by the moon
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Posidonius
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Heliocentric theory
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Aristarchus
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Specific gravity of matter
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Archimedes
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Father of Medicine
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Hippocrates
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Plato
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Ideal forms
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Aristotle
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Peripatetics and logic
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Antisthenes
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Founder of Cynics
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Hedonism
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Do what feels good-pleasure
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Epicureanism
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calculate pain and pleasure
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Diogenes
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lived in a barrel
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Pythagorus
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all things are numbers
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Zeno
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founded Stoicism
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Origen
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Christian-Neo-Platonists
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Augustine
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City of God
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Athenasius
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Defeneded orthodoxy position
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