Section 14 Vocab Flashcards
Persian Empire
Under the Kings Darius and Xerxes they attempted to conquer Greece several times in the fifth century B.C. but were defeated
Pharaohs
The Kings of ancient Egypt
Phoenicia
The Phoenicians were famed as traders and sailors. They developed an alphabet that was eventually adapted by the Greeks and Romans into the alphabet used today
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who overthrew the rulers of the Incas
Marco Polo
An Italian explorer; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia
Pompeii
City of the Roman Empire; destroyed in the first century by an eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius
Juan Ponce de León
A Spanish conquistador who named Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
Ptolemy
Ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the movements of the planets along with the sun and the stars revolved around the Earth
Punic Wars
Between ancient Carthage and Rome
Pyramids
Huge monuments built as burial vaults for the pharaohs
Reformation
A religious movement that began as an attempted reform of the Roman Catholic Church but resulted in the founding of Protestant churches
Renaissance
The cultural rebirth from the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries
Richard the Lion-Hearted
An English King who fought in the Crusades
Wars of the Roses
A series of wars fought by two English houses; the House of Lancaster had a red rose as its emblem; the House of York had a white rose
Rosetta Stone
Key to understanding Egyptian writing
