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Sem. 1, Part 3
Greeks and Romans--first semester final exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| monarchy | an early form of government in the Greek city-states in which a hereditary ruler exercised central power |
| Spartan | Some ______ women had the responsibility of running the family's estate because frequent warfare kept Spartan men away from home. |
| Cleisthenes | changed the government of Athens forever when he created a legislature (Assembly of 500), creating a limited democracy |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher who believed good conduct meant pursuing the "Golden Mean" |
| Peloponnesian War | resulted in the end of Athenian domination of the Greek world and led to the rise of Alexander the Great |
| Zeus | the most powerful Greek god |
| Republic | In his ______________, Plato describes his vision of an ideal state ruled by philosopher-king. |
| acropolis | In a Greek city-state, the _______ was the location of temples dedicated to different gods and goddesses. |
| oligarchy | a form of government in the Greek city-state where power was in the hands of a small, wealthy elite that came from the middle class |
| India | Alexander the Great extended his empire as far east as ______. |
| Patricians | in the early Roman republic, members of the landholding upper class |
| Carthaginians | in the Punic Wars, Rome gained control of lands around the Mediterranean Sea by defeating the _______. |
| Judea | Christianity first developed in the region of _______, in the Roman Empire. |
| Diocletian | to try to restore order to the empire, this Roman emperor divided the empire into 2 parts |
| Huns | Large numbers of Germanic peoples crossed into the lands of the Roman empire in the late 300s to escape the _______. |
| Hannibal | the great Carthaginian general who nearly defeated the Romans in the Second Punic War |
| Julius Caesar | his enemies assassinated him because they feared he planned to make himself king of Rome and the end the Republic |
| aqueducts | the Romans used their engineering skills to build _____ to bring water into Roman cities |
| civil law | a system of law that developed under the Roman Republic and applied to citizens |
| Paul | made the greatest contribution toward setting Christianity on the road to becoming a world religion, by spreading it throughout the empire |
| Constantine | the emperor who made the important decision to grant religious toleration to Christians |
| economic | heavy taxes helped to push the middle classes into poverty, which contributed to the ____________ weakening of the government. |
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