World History; Early to Middle Ages
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- The month of July is named after him and he instituted the Julian Calendar
- Julius Caesar
- Roman patriarch who established himself as universal leader of Christianity during the 5th century A.D.
- Innocent I
- Aristotle, King Philip, and Alexander the Great were all from this region north of the Greek peninsula
- Macedonia
- Germanic tribe whose name means "East Goths"
- Ostrogoths
- Famous teuton who became a Christian and made Paris the capital of France
- Clovis
- Frankish Mayor of the Palace who defeated the Moslems at Tours
- Charles Martel
- Adopted son of Julius Caesar and ruler of Rome
- Octavian or Augustus
- Great church constructed in Constantinople in the 6th century A.D.
- Hagia Sophia
- This slave organized a revlot against Rome in 73BC
- Spartacus
- Wild Viking warriors who wore nothing by animal skins
- berserkrs
- He nearly captured Rome by going over the Alps and up into Italy on elephant
- Hannibal
- Important god of several Germanic tribes.
- Wotan
- The empire that eventually stretchedfrom Asia Minor (Turkey) to Babylon (Iraq)
- Persia
- Son of Pepin the Short; he was a great Carolingian king
- Charlemagne
- Rome is located along the banks of this river
- Tiber
- Churchmen who separated themselves from the secular world
- Monks
- Julius Caesar marched against orders across this river
- Rubicon
- Christian church established in Egypt around A.D. 450
- Coptic
- Rome is located in what present day country
- Italy
- The great Carolingian rulers were a grandfather, son and grandson
- Charles Martel, Pepin the Short and Charlemagne
- Messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens without stopping to warn the Athenians of the invasions of the Persians
- Pheidippides
- Style of writing using lowercase letters
- Carolingian minuscule
- The southern area of Greece
- Peloponnesus
- Emperor in Constantinople from A.D. 527-565
- Justinian
- She ruled Egypt along with her brother and was descended from on of Alexander the Great's generals
- Cleopatra
- Frankish ruler who was of the Merovingian dynasty
- Clovis I
- Nickname for Rome
- Eternal City
- Region of northern France settled by Vikings
- Normandy
- He wrote the Aneid during the reign of Agustus
- Virgil
- Name given the eastern half of the Old Roman Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- This emperor ended persecution of the Christians and made Christianity the official religion in the Roman Empire
- Constantine
- German military commander sho deposed the last Roman emperor in A.D. 476
- Odovacar
- Warlike peoples living outside the Roman Empire
- barbarians
- Irish monk who popularized the use of A.D.
- Venerable Bede
- The Roman Lake
- Mediterranean Sea
- Dragon ships of the Vikings
- drakken
- Assian and former friend of Julius Caesar
- Brutus
- Word derived from two Latin words meaning "middle ages"
- Medieval
- The Romans believed these two twin brothers founded the city of Rome
- Romulus and Remus
- Germanic tribe whose name means "West Goths"
- Visigoths
- Built a wall across northern England
- Hadrian
- Animal skin used to make books
- Vellum
- Gaul
- Present day France
- Peace which divided up the Empire of Charlemagne
- Treaty of Verdun
- Centurian
- leader over 100 men in Roman army
- Church leader who established a monastic order
- Benedict
- Wondered all year. They pulled their houses around on carts
- Monguls
- Promise of service made by a vasal knight to his lord
- fealty oath
- The last king of Rome, driven out in 509BC
- Tarquin
- Christians who did not believe in the use of images in worship
- Iconoclasts
- Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned
- Nero
- He became a religious leader in China around 500BC
- Confucius
- Rome fought three Punic Wars against this north Africian city
- Carthridge
- The Peloponnesain war was fought between
- Sparta and Athens
- Legendary founder of the Roman race, carried his father out of Troy
- Aeneas
- He was the son of the King of Troy
- Paris
- Means love of wisdon
- Philosphy
- Perhaps the most famous Greek philospher; he died of hemlock
- Socrates
- Gautama Budda lived in this country around 536 BC
- India
- Student of Socrates who started the Academy that lasted 900 years
- Plato
- Greek philospher who developed the beginnings of the scientific method
- Aristotle
- Chinese civilization began on this river
- Yellow
- Manelaus
- King of Greece
- Conquered all of the known world except for India
- Alexander the Great
- Hippocratic
- Famous Greek Doctor
- Teacher's use the "Socratic method" when they
- ask questions
- The Trojan War was the war between
- Greece and Troy
- Belief in many gods
- Polytheistic
- Greek mathematician and inventor. He was able to measuere the weight of gold by displacement
- Archimedes
- The noble families of Rome were called the
- Patricians
- Gave each person in Athens a vote around 500BC
- Clisthenes
- These Romans joined Julius Caesar in the First Triumverate in 60 BC
- Crassus and Pompey
- Leader of Athens during the "Golden Age"
- Pericles
- Early Romans lived in city-states and were ruled by
- Kings
- In the Roman Republic two _________-ruled in place of the King
- consuls
- After the kings that ruled early Rome were overthrown, Rome became a
- Republic
- The Greeks believed the gods lived atop this mountain
- Mount Olympus
- A polis is a
- City-state
- The story of the Trojan War was told in two stories
- Illid and the Odyssey
- Was a tyrant sho took control of Athens; banished twice but regained power both times. Had the poems of Homer written down
- Pisistratus
- Great Greek philoshper who tutored Alexander the Great
- Aristotle
- The people invented the alphabet that we currently use
- Phoenicians
- The first Christian Martyr
- Steven
- Brahmanism teaches
- reincarnation