Social Studies Final
Social Studies final on Friday. Mr.Ledda's discussion notes.
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- pope who spread christianity
- gregory the great
- city-state
- polis
- important government official
- praetor
- man who preached allah
- muhammad
- agreement between the pope and a ruler of a country
- concordat
- territory in southwest asia and reigon of historic palestine
- judae
- greek doctor who brought medical ideas to rome
- galen
- green area in desert
- oasis
- germanic leader who overthrough western empire
- odacer
- spread christianity to franks
- clovis
- ruler of the kingdom
- satrap
- well educated woman who taught public speaking
- aspasia
- things grown in greece
- wheat barley olives and grapes
- principal rivers in europe, rising in eastern switzerland
- rhine river
- low square building surrounded by statues of gods
- kaaba
- sculptor and philosopher believed in absolute right and wrong
- socrates
- islam, christianity and judism are all
- monotheistic
- name octavian took when he ruled
- augustus
- thinker who seeks wisdom
- philosipher
- greek island in the agean sea where the delian league headquarters was
- delos
- plain near athens where a messenger ran from to announce that the athenians had won the persian war
- marathon
- greek word for love of wisdom
- philosiphy
- great king
- charlemagne
- greek man who introduced many reforms
- solon
- thinker who seeks wisdom
- philosipher
- common person
- pleblian
- arab desert herders
- bedouins
- takes power by force
- tyrant
- person who studies universe
- astronomer
- tyrant who seized power in 560 bc
- peisistratus
- cape on western coast of greece
- actium
- christian apostle who was an original disciple, founded many churches
- paul
- port city on bay of naples
- puteoli
- wealthy landownder
- patrician
- phillip 2 controlled most of greece after they beat the greeks at this battle
- chaerona
- left behind when a person dies
- legacy
- city in germany near the belgian and dutch borders capital of charlemagnes frankish empire
- aachen
- early christian leader who set up churches
- apostle
- student of plato, opened lyceum taught golden mean
- aristotle
- part of 2nd triumvirate, fell in love with cleopatra
- antony
- sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god
- oracle
- invaded greece but was defeated
- xerxes
- teaching method where questions are answered by questions
- socratic method
- long poem that tells about heroic deeds
- epic
- person who ruled with complete power temporarily
- dictator
- close follower of jesus
- disciple
- great athenian general and statesman
- pericles
- spheres and cylinders
- solid geometry
- large farming estate
- latifundia
- greek city state poet was born here
- syracuse
- small group holds power
- oligarchy
- holy muslim city in western saudi arabia
- madinah
- ancient city of italy in latium
- ostia
- stopped muslim advance into europe
- charles martel
- fortified area on a hill
- acropolis
- short tale that teaches a lesson
- fable
- first triumvate, good military leader
- julius caesar
- father of the family
- paterfamilias
- site of oracle at the temple of apollo
- delphi
- to declare a person no longer belongs to a church
- excommunicate
- reigon of ancient palestine
- galilee
- drama with a happy ending
- comedy
- a narrow mountain pass where greeks lost to persians
- thermoplyae
- site northwest of athens where greeks defeated persians
- platea
- area which is now southern iran
- persia
- roman general who defeated carthagians
- scipio
- peninsula in southern part of greece
- peloponessus
- ancient city on the coast of africa
- carthage
- small river on the southern boundry of caesars command area
- rubicon
- island in the southwest aegean sea
- rhodes
- christian apostle who was an original disciple
- peter
- norway sweden and denmark
- scandinavia
- era of peace 200 years
- pax romana
- roman writer (wrote aneid)
- virgil
- visigoth leader who captured rome
- alaric
- capital city of israel holy city for christians jews and muslims
- jerusalem
- slave known for fables
- aesop
- poem that expresses strong emotions about life
- ode
- study of body structure
- anatomy
- mathematician believed all relationships could be expressed by numbers
- pythagoras
- person conquered and enslaved by spartans
- helot
- work that pokes fun at human weaknesses
- satire
- poet of the illiad and the odessy
- homer
- a messenger sent by god
- messiah
- playwrite known for tradgedies where he questioned traditional thinking
- euripides
- to reject
- veto
- act of rising from dead
- ressurrection
- steep sided valley that is an inlet of the sea
- fjord
- island off the coast of greece
- crete
- open air marketplace
- agora
- act of being saved from sin
- salvation
- happiness through doing one's duty
- stoicism
- greek city state that focused on learning
- athens
- made government of athens a democracy
- cleisthenes
- holy city of muslims, also known as mecca
- makkah
- settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland
- colony
- best known early roman dictator who defeated enemy in short time
- cinncinatus
- leader of an arab tribe
- sheikh
- brilliant general, son of phillip
- alexander the great
- person who carries ideas of a religion to others
- missionary
- general who became emperor
- diocletian
- persian religion
- zoriastronism
- city built on site of byzantium now known as istanbul
- consantinople
- highest mountain in greece home of gods
- mt.olympus
- second longest river in europe
- danube river
- public speaking
- rhetoric
- person who rought with animals and people as entertainment
- gladiator
- most important city in the ancient world
- alexandria
- citizens vote for officials
- representative democracy
- father of history
- herodotus
- ancient town near galilee
- nazareth
- points lines angles surfaces
- plane geometry
- conquered by alexander the great, near mediterranean sea
- syria
- story that used events from daily life to express spiratual ideas
- parable
- traditional story about gods or heroes
- myth
- powerful kingdom north of greece
- macedonia
- all citizens vote everyday
- direct democracy
- holy book of islam
- quaran
- story told by actors that pretend to be in the story
- drama
- peninsula
- body of land with water on three sides
- general and writer of tradgedies
- sophocles
- curved structure of stone forming roof
- vault
- leader who organized persia into an empire
- cyrus the great
- drama with an unhappy ending
- tradgedy
- student of socrates wrote the republic
- plato
- strait where greek fleets defeated persians
- salamis
- persian king who organized government into satrapies
- darius
- emperor who supported christianity
- consantine
- an athenian general who came up with a plan to defeat the persians
- themistocles
- ancient city off the peninsula of mainland greece
- mycenae
- ancient town in souther italy where hannibal defeated romans
- cannae
- open space in rome that was marketplace and public square
- forum
- 3 seas surrounding greece
- ionian sea aegean sea and mediterranean sea
- caesars grandnephew, second triumvirate
- octavian
- jew who preached in judea and galilee with 12 disciples
- jesus
- group of traveling merchants and animals
- caravan
- scientist who lived in alexandria
- ptolemy
- abolished sales tax, allowed people in exile to return, increased court systems power
- caligula
- happiness through the pursuit of pleasure was the goal of life
- epicureanism
- history of peloponissian war
- thucicidyes
- professional teacher
- sophist
- carthage's greatest general defeated romans at cannae
- hannibal
- period when Greek ideas spread to the rest of the world
- Hellinistic Era
- town in northern africa southwest of carthage
- zama
- protected pope
- otto 1
- 3 person ruling group
- triumvirate
- lands in western and central europe
- holy roman empire
- political leader, writer and romes greates public speaker
- cicero
- serfs
- peasants who worked land
- first civilization
- minoan
- all citizens hold power
- democracy
- king of macedonia who admired greek ideas
- phillip 2
- emporor who divided empire
- theodisius
- king who used trickery to win the trojan war
- agamemnon
- top 2 government official
- consul