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History Names exam
1st semester 2007 Names
Question | Answer |
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Alexander the great | built one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and named it after himself |
Euripides | dramatist who questioned traditional thinking about war |
Demosthenes | tried to warn the Athenians that Philip II was a threat to them |
Socrates | taught that absolute right and wrong did exist |
Epicurus | dounded the philosophy that taught happiness was the goal of life |
Aristophanes | Wrote comedies that made fun of leading poloticians and scolars are required audiences to think |
Euclid | studied how points, lines, angles, and planes relate to one another |
Solomon | built stone temple in Jerusalem |
Nebuchadnezzar | Captured Jerusalem and exiled 10,000 Jews |
Herodotus | "father of history" |
Qin | based his rule on the ideas of Legalism and took over his neighboring states one by one |
Confucius | belived that people needed to have a sense of duty; was ancient China's first great thinker and teacher |