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Merovingians: Clovis and his successors, who were generally weak Frankish rulers who left the job of governing to palace officials.
Peisistratus: Soon after ____'s rule as an Athenian tyrant, the nobles returned to power.
Hagia Sophia: Great, decorative Byzantine church in Constantinople.
Ottoman Turks: Asian people who conquered Constantinople in the 1300s and established a large empire.
Pax Romana: Period of Roman peace from the beginning of Augustus's reign until the death of Marcus Aurelius.
Huns: Nomadic people from Asia who attacked the Roman Empire.
Black Death: Terrible plague that swept through Europe, beginning in 1347.
Scipio: In 202 B.C. at the battle of Zama, near Carthage, ____ defeated Hannibal and his army.
Homer: Wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey
Vikings: Germanic people from Scandinavia who often raided western Europe during the A.D. 800s and 900s.
Huguenots: French people, including high-ranking nobles, who converted to Calvinism.
Hippocrates: ____, who lived between about 460 B.C. and about 377 B.C., is considered to be the founder of medical science.
Aristotle: Rejected everything Plato taught him.
Solon: ____, who became an archon in Athens in 594 B.C., settled the disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts of the poor and outlawing slavery for debt.
Hellenistic culture: Greek-like way of life that combined ideas and values drawn from the Mediterranean and Asia.
Middle Ages: Period in western European history between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
Aeschylus: ____'s three most famous plays centered on the murder of Agamemnon, the king who had led the Greeks against Troy.
Phidias: ____ created the statues of Athena that decorated the Acropolis and the Parthenon. His greatest work, however, was the statue of Zeus at the Temple of Olympia.
Draco: An archon named ____ is believed to have created Athens's first written law code around 621 B.C.
Praxiteles: ____ sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural in form and size. Above all, he expressed the Greek admiration for the beauty of the human body.
Myron: ____ sculpted the famous figure The Discus Thrower.
Socrates: ____ taught that education was the key to personal growth.
Battle of Marathon: Battle during the Persian Wars when Persia invaded Greece.
Vandals: One of a group of Germanic tribes who invaded and destroyed territory in the Roman Empire.
Magyars: Nomadic group who invaded Europe; eventually settled in what is now Hungary.
Zeno: ____ established the Stoic philosophy in Athens in the late 300s B.C.
Eratosthenes: ____ calculated the distance around the earth with amazing accuracy.
Gaius Marius: ____ created an army of volunteers who were well rewarded with money, newly conquered land, and war loot.
Themistocles: Athenian leader who defeated the Persian navy in the narrow Salamis Strait.
Thucydides: Another Greek historian, ____, became famous for his History of the Peloponnesian War.
Iliad: Homer's great epic that tells the story of the Trojan War.
The Gracchi: Two brothers, Tiberus and Gaius Gracchus, who saw the need for reform in the Roman Republic.
Greek fire: Flammable liquid used as a weapon by the Byzantine navy.
Delian League: Alliance of city-states in ancient Greece, with Athens as a leader.
Battle of Thermopylae: Battle during the Persian Wars in which Spartan troops fought to the death against a much larger Persian force.
Goths: One of a group of Germanic tribes who flooded into the Roman Empire and later revolted, weakening the empire.
Pythagoras: ____ was a philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics.
Punic Wars: Three costly conflicts between Romans and Carthaginians over control of the Mediterranean and overseas expansion.
Gothic: Style of church architecture characterized by tall spires and flying buttresses that was developed by master builders during the mid-1100s.
Peloponnesian War: War between Sparta and Athens that broke out in 431 B.C. and lasted for 27 years.
Pericles: Under ____, Athenian democracy reached its height.
Archimedes: ____ calculated the value of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Julio-Claudian Emperors: Relatives of Caesar who ruled for 54 years of the Pax Romana following the death of Augustus.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla: ____ from 82 B.C. to 79 B.C. he ruled as Roman dictator.
Persian Wars: Conflicts between Greece and Persia.
Hannibal: In Spain, ____, one of the greatest generals of all time, assembled a huge Carthaginian army that included foot soldiers, horse soldiers, and elephants.
Philip II of Macedon: In 338 B.C., ____ defeated Thebes and Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea. With this victory he united Greece under his rule.
Sophists: Athenian men who opened schools for boys to study government, mathematics, ethics, and rhetoric.
Iconoclastic Controversy: Debate between opponents and defenders of icons in the Byzantine Church; one of the issues that led to the split of the Christian church in 1054.
Spartacus: ____ led a revolt of more than 70,000 slaves.
Demosthenes: One of Athens's finest orators, or public speakers, was ____. He led Athenian opposition to Philip.
Plato: After the death of Socrates, ____ founded the Academy, a special school in Athens for teaching philosophy.
Cleisthenes: In about 507 B.C., ____ seized power in Athens and turned it into a democracy.
Sappho: Wrote "Sleep, Darling"
Magna Carta: Great Charter, English document that made law the supreme power and became a cornerstone of constitutional government.
Mycenaeans: Civilization on the Greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.
Odyssey: Homer's epic that tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War.
Aristarchus: ____ correctly believed that the earth and other planets moved around the sun, but he failed to convince others.
Carolingians: Line of Frankish rulers established by Pepin III's coronation in A.D. 751.
Renaissance: Movement following the Middle Ages that centered on revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome; French word meaning "rebirth."
Herodotus: ____ was the first historian of the Western world.
Aristophanes: The finest writer of Greek comedies, ____, was known for his sharp wit.
Alexander the Great: His aim was to bring all of the known world into a single empire.
Parthenon: White marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena.
Sophocles: Aristotle called ____'s most famous play, Oedipus Rex, a perfect example of tragedy.
Reformation: Religious revolution that split the church in western Europe and created a number of new churches.
Five Good Emperors: Five rulers who led Rome for almost 100 years during the Pax Romana.
Justinian Code: Collection of laws that formed the basis for Byzantine law under Emperor Justinian.
Minoans: Earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.
Olympic Games: Originally, ancient Greek festival including contests of sports, music, and literature; the modern revival of these games as international athletic competitions.
Epicurus: ____ was the founder of Epicurean philosophy.
Euclid: ____'s Elements is the basis for many of today's geometry books.
Inquisition: Institution of the Roman Catholic Church that sought to eliminate heresy by seeking out and punishing heretics.
Euripides: In The Trojan Women, ____ showed the pain and misery of war.

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