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Vocab from Greece, Hellenistic Civ, and Rome
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Polytheistic Greek religion that believed in gods with human flaws and myths that explained natural events | Mythology |
| Type of government where the citizens vote on laws | Direct Democracy |
| Type of government where the people chose leaders who vote on laws | Representative Democracy (Republic) |
| a time of peace and prosperity. This Rome during the Pax Romana after the reign of Augustus | Golden Age |
| City State in Greece know for its warriors, equality of citizens, and women having greater rights | Sparta |
| City state in Greece that was the commercial and cultural center and developed the first direct democracy | Athens |
| Wars that united the Greeks and caused a Golden Age | Persian Wars |
| Wars where Athens and Sparta fought each other weakening them and allowing Macedonians to conquer | Peloponnesian Wars |
| Declared himself emperor after beating Pompey (another Roman General) in Battle. he was also assassinated by the Senate | Julius |
| Group of Elected leaders in Rome that made the laws (Twelve Tables) | Senate |
| Two people who were elected to govern Rome for 1 year at a time. | Consuls |
| Emperor of Rome. | Caesar |
| Emperor who was crowned as Caesar by the Senate and and officially turned Rome into a Monarchy. He also started Pax Romana. | Augustus Caesar |
| 3 person government (oligarchy) that was put in power in Rome by the Senate and Assembly to try to fix Rome's problems. | Triumvirate |
| Roman Emperor known for persecuting Chrisitians | Nero |
| Roman Emperor that stopped the persecution of Christians after seeing a vision at the Battle of Milvian Bridge | Constantine |
| Religion that spread quickly in Rome after based on the teaching of Jesus | Christianity |
| Roman polytheistic religion | Paganism |
| Rich class in Rome | Patrician |
| Lower class in Rome | Plebeian |
| Person who Can Vote. In Greece they had to be an adult male who owned land. | Citizen |
| Using your Reason/Intelligence to solve problems of hociety, government, human nature. | Philosophy |
| Makes Christianity the official Roman Religion | Theodosius |
| Macedonian King who conquered Egypt, Persia, and Indus Valley and spread Greek culture. Started the Hellenistic Period. | Alexander The Great |
| Tribes of Europe that invaded and conquered Western Rome. | Germanic People |
| Hosting gladiator games, chariot races, and giving away food to distract the masses of Rome from the problems that the emperors were creating | Bread and Circus |
| Roads, Aqueducts, Coliseum, Pantheon | Roman Infrastructure |
| When Jews were exiled from their homeland after the Maccabean Rebellion | Jewish Diaspora |
| Where Constantine saw a vision and decided to stop persecuting Christians. He later converted to Christianity | Battle at Milvian Bridge |
| Attacked Rome, Gupta India, and Han China trying to pillage. They led to the decline of Rome and Gupta but not China. | Huns |
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