- 3 Greek Philosophers
- SocratesPlatoAristotle
Who wrote the Gargantua and Pantagruel
- French Monk - Rabelais
- Agora
- Open air market of the Greeks
- Aqueducts
- Used to bring fresh water to Rome from the mountains.
- Aristocracy
- Government ruled by a small group of upper class nobles.
- Aristophanes
- Wrote comedies
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian writing system
- Dictator
- Has complete control over the government, army and citizens.
- Dynasty
- Series of rulers from the same family
- El Greco
- Famous Spanish painter during the Renaissance
- Et tu Brute
- You too BrutusCaesar's quote during his assination
- Fertile Crescent
- Area from the Nile River Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley.
- Feudal System
- Based on control of the land.
- Feudalism
- Political system in the Middle Ages
- Hannibal
- General from Carthage who crossed the Alps with elephants and an army.
- Hieroglyphics
- Ancient Egyptian writing system
- Immortals
- Best fighters in the Persian army because their numbers never fell below 10,000.
- Joan of Arc
- Helped France defeat England in the 100 Year War.
- Johann Gutenbert
- Invented the printing press.
- Legions
- Divisions of the Roman army.
- Magna Carta
- Took away some power of the English king and gave more power to the nobles. Signed by King John of Runnymede
- Manors
- Middle age farming communities
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the Pieta
- Michelangelo
- Painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Wrote Don Quixote
- Monarchy
- Type of government ruled by a king or queen.
- Monotheism
- Belief in one god
- Monotheistic religions
- Islam, Judaism and Christianity
- Nomads
- people who move from place to place in search of food.
- Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
- First Roman emperor
- Odysseus
- Greek hero of the Trojan war.
- Patricians
- Upper class Roman citizens
- Pax Romana
- The "Peace of Rome" that lasted 200 years
- Polytheism
- Belief in many gods
- Punic Wars
Three wars of Carthage vs Rome
- Romanesque
- Style of architecture that uses the rounded arch developed by the Romans
- Romulus and Remus
- Twin brothers who fought to rule Rome
- Shadoof
- Used for irrigation in ancient Egypt
- Squire
- Knights in Training
- Sumerian contributions to modern society
- The wheelThe plowThe sailboat12 month calendarNumber system based on 60Water clock
- Technology
- is the tools and skills to use them
- The Gift of the Nile
- Egypt
- The poet Virgil
- Wrote The Aeneid
- The Twelve Tables
- Rome's first laws
- Tithe
- 10% donation to the church
- Ziggurat
- Sumerian temple and center of each city-state.
- A government where people vote for the leaders
- Republic or Democracy
- Architecture that represens a pointed arch
- Gothic
- Arena used for gladiator fights
- The Colosseum
- Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
- Constantinople
- Castles were built for
- ProtectionSafetyStrength of the Nobles
- Causes of the Fall of Rome
- InflationMilitary corruptionLack of interest in politicsInvasion by Germanic tribes and Huns
- Changed the religion of Egypt with his wife Nefertiti
- Amenhotep IV
- Christopher Columbus discovered ? in 1492?
- Bahamas for Spain
- Conquered territory as far east as India
- Alexander the Great
- Contributions of the Greeks to modern society
- OlympicsTragedy writingTheaterScientific methodMedicine
- Created the world's first constitution and democracy
- The Greeks
- Created the world's first empire in Mesopotamia
- Sargon I
- Crusades contributions
- Increase in tradeEnd of feudalismIncreased learningIncreased trade routes
- Culture
- ValuesTraditionsHabitsSkills
Of a people
- Defeated the Muslims in the Battle of the Tours
- Charles the Hammer
- Developed a process called smelting to make iron weapons.
- Hittites
- Developed the first written Code of Laws
- Hammurabi
- Developed the new fighting formation called a phlanx
- Phillip of Macedonia
- Done to preserve bodies
- Embalming
- Early settlers of Italy
- EtruscansLatinsGreeks
- Egyptian contributions to modern societ
- PapyrusNumber system based on 10FractionsGeometryMedical specialistsSewing cutsSetting broken bonesTreating diseases with natural remedies
- Famous Greek mathematicians
- PythagorasArchimedesEuclid
- Famous Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Homer
- Famous Persian religious leader
- Zoroaster
- Famous Persian War Battles
- MarathonSalamisThermopylaePlatea
- Famous writers of tragedies
- SophoclesEuripidesAeschylus
- Father of History
- Herodotus
- Father of Medicine
- Hippocrates
- First Bronze age civilization
- Minoans
- First European to sail southern Africa?
- Bartholomew
- First female ruler of Egypt
- Hatshepsut
- First group to develop a civilization in Mesopotamia
- Sumerians
- First King of France
- Clovis
- First monotheistic culture
- Jews
- Formed guilds to ensure fair treatent
- MerchantsArtisansWorkers
- Four Types of Ancient Architecture
- DoricIonicGothicCorinthian
- Germanic tribes overran the Roman Empire and ...
- caused its fall.
- God of the Underworld in Ancient Egypt
- Osiris
- Great Mesopotamian traders.
- Phoenicians
- Greatest thinker of the Renaissance
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Greek city-states never united because...?
- Mountainous country
