9th Grade World History
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| City-states | independent cities that never united under one government
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| Frescoes-created by who | showed scenes of the Minoan life and religion
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| Iliad | a poem about The Trojan Horse/ Trojan War
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| Homer | wrote the poem about the Trojan Horse called the Iliad
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| Herodotus | Greek historian wrote about the Persian war
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| Barbarians-who called them that and why | the Greeks called the Persians Barbarians because they didn’t speak Greek
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| Ionia-conquered by: | the 1st Greeks conquered by the Persians
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| Darius | the leader of Persia during the war between Persia and Greece, Persian King
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| Battle of Marathon-Pheidippides | he ran back to tell the people of Athens they had won the battle at this place
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| 300 | the number of Spartans that held off the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae
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| Salamis | the final battle that was on the water that allowed Athens to defeat Persia
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| Polytheistic | Greek religion is this (belief in many Gods)
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| Slavery-what did it help the Greeks develop | democracy
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| Philosophy | "love of wisdom"
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| Sophists | professional teachers who traveled Greek city-states and charged fees for their teaching
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| Socrates-was known for | continuous questions
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| Allegory of the Cave-who wrote it | Plato
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| Archimedes | Greek mathematician and scientist that discovered the screw and heat ray
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| Delian League | the league led by Athens
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| Peloponnesian League | the league led by Sparta
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| winner of the Peloponnesian war | Sparta
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| Ancient Greek Olympics-dedicated to who | Zeus
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| Original Olympic Games events | long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, running, wrestling, chariot racing
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| Macedonia-whose hometown was this | Alexander the Great
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| Alexander the Great was able to conquer the land from Macedonia east to where-how far did his empire go | India
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| Why is Alexander so important to Western history-what was he able to spread | he preserved the education of the Greeks, maintained the information in libraries, such as in Alexandria, he spread Hellenistic culture all the way to India
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| Romulus & Remus | Roman mythology states Rome was started by them
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| Plebeians | Roman commoner
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| Patricians | Roman aristocrat or nobleman
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| Slaves | lowest part of Roman society
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| Republic | a form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to vote for their leaders
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| Consuls | in Rome their high office was held by 2 officials- One-year term; During wartime, one was chosen to act as a dictator
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| 12 Tables | first written law of code (Roman)
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| Roman religion was polytheistic & based on what | Greek gods
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| Punic Wars | between Rome and Carthage
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| Hannibal | the general who attacked the Romans using elephants
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| Spartacus | the gladiator slave that led a revolt against the Roman Empire
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| Caesar, Crassus, & Pompey | the first triumvirate in Rome that was led by 3 powerful generals
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| Rubicon River | Caesar denied the request from the Senate and Pompey and entered the Italian Peninsula and crossed this
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| Octavian-Caesar Augustus | Octavian becomes the 1st Roman emperor and changes his name to Caesar Augustus
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| Bread and Circuses | to keep the poorest plebeians happy enough and reasonably well fed so that they would not riot; the Roman emperor did this
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| Jesus-Rome was afraid that Jesus would cause what | cause/lead a rebellion
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| Constantine | the emperor that was the 1st to convert to Christianity
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| Diocletian | this emperor divided empire into two parts, east and west
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| Huns | 3 groups invaded Western Rome (pushed the Germanic Tribes)
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| Visigoths & Vandals | 3 groups invaded Western Rome (part of Germanic tribes)
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| How did the Roman and Greek Empires influence modern society? | domes, republic, some religion, laws
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