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| What is a form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens can vote? |
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| The early development of Rome was most influenced by which group of people? |
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| What was the body of laws that was one of Rome's chief gifts to later generations? |
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| The First Triumvirate was made up of what leaders? |
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| Caeser, Crassus, and Pompey |
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| What did the emperor do to keep the poverty-stricken masses pacified? |
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| He handed out grain and gave entertainment. |
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| The paterfamilias, or dominant male, was the head of the Roman family and could do what? |
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| Could be kicked out of his household if he failed in his duty to provide for the family. |
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| Constantine became the Roman Empire's first what? |
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| Under which emperor did Rome adopt Christianity as its official religion? |
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| The political and military reforms of Diocletian and Constantine did what? |
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| Greatly enhanced the army and civil service institutions, but drained most of the public funds. |
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| In the long run, the economic and social policies of Diocletian and Constantine did what to Rome? |
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| Stifled the vitality the Late Empire needed to revive its sagging fortunes. |
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| How did attitudes toward women change over the course of Roman history? |
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| Over time they went from having to be escorted around to having almost as much freedom as men. |
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| Who was the author of the Aeneid? |
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| What writing proclaimed official tolerance of Christianity in the Roman Empire? |
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| What were the less wealthy landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers? |
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| What was the German tribe that sacked Rome? |
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| What is a government by three people with equal power? |
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| What were the Romans's apartment blocks called? |
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| What group favored cooperation with the Romans? |
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| The Greek city state that became the focus of Greek life. |
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| The first Greek state that was a fortified site and was discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. |
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| The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, what is oligarchy? |
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| What happened at Thermopylae? |
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| A Greek force of 7000, led by the Spartans, held off the Persian army of 180,000 for two days. |
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| What did Herodotus write? |
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| The "History of Persian Wars", a work commonly regarded as the first real history in Western civilization. |
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| According to Plato, individuals could not achieve a good life unless they did what? |
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| Lived in a just and rational state. |
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| What did the conquests of Alexander the Great create? |
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| The astronomer Eratosthenes determined what scientific information? |
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| That the earth was round and he estimated its circumference. |
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| What did the philosophy of Epicurus state? |
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| That happiness was the goal of life. |
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| What was the role of women in Athens? |
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| Her place was in the home, and her responsibilities were the bearing and raising of children and the care of the household. |
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| What was one of Alexander's goals and describe how he achieved of failed it. |
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| He took possession of Persia in 331 B.C. |
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| What does the term Hellenistic mean? |
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| It was derived from the Greek word meaning "to imitate Greeks". |
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| Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were what? |
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| The first great epic poems of early Greece. |
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| According to Greek religion, the gods lived where? |
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| On Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. |
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| Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander's death? |
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| Macedonia, Syria in the East, the kingdom of Pergamum in western Asia Minor, and Egypt. |
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| Describe the growth of democracy in Athens. |
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| The Athenians became deeply attached to it. |
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| How did Greek culture spread into Southwest Asia during the Hellenistic Era? |
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| Hellenistic rulers encouraged a massive spread of Greek colonists to Southwest Asia. |
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