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| A great poet and Philosopher who was first seen at the end of the dark times. |
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| A form of government which the power is used to benefit the people. Power is shared equally instead of put on one major group. |
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A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
City states of ancient Greece were governed under oligarchy. |
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Ancient Athenian philosopher, invented the Socratic method.
He HAD to commit suicide because he was introducing strange gods and corrupting the youth. |
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Wrote many subjects: ethics, logic, politics, poetry, astronomy, geology, biology, and physics.
Favored constitutional government. |
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| Athenian statesman and general. Champion of Athenian democracy, he pursued an imperialist policy and masterminded Athenian strategy in the Peloponnesian War. |
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Capital of Greece.
Important cultural center in the 5th century BC.
Went under roman rule in 146 BC and fell to the Goths in AD 267. The Turks captured it in 1456. |
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| A city in Southern Peloponnese in Greece. Powerful city state in 5th century BC. After it defeated Athens, it became the leading city of Greece. |
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| A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |
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| King of Macedon. By age thirty he was the creator of one of the larges empires in ancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. |
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A period of considerable cultural accomplishment in many areas, especially science and phiolosophy.
Some/certain areas stood out among others. |
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A government that has a head of state who is not a monarch, and in modern times, is a president.
For Example: Rome was once one. |
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A member of a long established wealthy family.
An aristocrat or nobleman
A member of a noble family or class in ancient Rome. |
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| Member of a lower social class |
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| Cartharginian general. In the second Punic War he attacked Italy by crossing the Alps. He repeatedly defeated the Romans, although he failed to take Rome itself. After being recalled to Africa he was defeated at Zama by Scipio Africanus in 202. |
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A rule that has obtained complete and total control over an empire, and gives orders in an autocratic manner.
Ex: Rome experienced many of them because of need or by brute force. |
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First Roman Emperor.
Also called Octavian.
He was adopted in the will of his great-uncle Julius Caesar and gained supreme power by his defeat of Anthony in 31 BC. In 27 BC he was given his title also know as "venerable." |
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| An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority (emperor or empress) |
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| The peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. |
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A contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes.
There were two different types: Bubonic, and Pneumonic.
It spreads rapidly and kills many. |
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| A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
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| There was a number of factors that caused it such as: Christianity, decadence, lead, monetary trouble, and military problems. |
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| The world's most widespread religion. It originated among the Jewish followers of Jesus. It soon became and independent organization. Their hopes are to attain eternal life after death through faith in Jesus Christ and tries to live by his teachings as recorded in the New Testament. |
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| The central figure of the Christian religion. His followers consider him to be the Christ or Messiah and the son of God. |
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The second half of the Christian Bible. Originally written in Greek and recording the life and teachings of Jesus and his earliest followers.
It includes the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, twenty-one epistles by St. Paul and others, and the book of Revelation. |
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| He was one of the most famous citizens of the Roman Empire. He was also one of the most influential individuals in history. The Lord used him to send his messages and it was because of him that the Christian Church was created. |
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The body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
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| He was a Roman emperor, and the first Roman emperor to be converted to Christianity. In 324 he made Christianity the empire's state religion. He moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium and named it Constantinople. |
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