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Ancient History
Question | Answer |
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14th century bc king of egypt renounced old gods and introduced the first monotheistic religion aka Amenhotep | Akhenaton |
king of macedonia 336-323 bc; tutored by aristotle; loosed the gordian knot | Alexander the Great |
king of the huns in the 5th century; known as "the scourge of god" because of his armies cruelty | Atilla the Hun |
adopted son of Julius Caesar; 1st emperor of Rome 44 BC-14AD; the pax romana (time of peace) occured during his reign | Caesar Augustus |
1st century roman dictator; assassinated by brutus and others on the ides of march 44bc | Julius Caesar |
ancient roman politician; ended every speech with " Carhage must be destroyed" | Cato |
charles the great) crowned 1st holy roman emperor in 800 | Charlemagne |
1st century bc queen of egypt famous for her affair with mark antony; commited suicide by allowing a poisonous asp to bite her | Cleopatra |
roman ruler 312-37); reunited E and W roman empires and made new capital on the site of Byzantium; issued edict of milan which legalized christianity in 313 | Constantine |
ancient carthage general who took an army supported by elephants into italy in an attempt to conquer rome in the second punic war | Hannibal |
ruler of rome 117-38 who codified their laws and built a wall between england and scotland | Hadrian |
12th century mongolian emperor known for conquering huge portions of N China and SW asia | Genghis Khan |
ancient roman emperor famed for his cruelty; thought to have caused a great fire in rome | nero |
ancient greek statesmen who promoted democracy and tried to unite the country | pericles |
last ruler of united romean empire 392-5 | Theodosius the Great |
1st triumverate | pompey, caesar, and crassus |
2nd triumverate | mark antony, lepidus, and octavian |