Amenhotep/Akhenaten

Question 1

Amenhotep/Akhenaten

Answer 1

Original name was amenhotep but liked Aten(god) so much that he changed his name to akenATEN. Tried to make everyone love and worship this one god failed. After he died everyone called him a heretic even his son. Lived in Egypt.

Question 2

Sennacherib

Answer 2

King of assiyria. His army was struck by angels and they retreated back to Ninevah.

Question 3

Homer

Answer 3

Famous ancient Ionian poet. Lived in Ionia. Wrote Epics(Odyssey and the Iliad) Gives valuable information on Micenean culture. 1800bc

Question 4

Nebuchadnezzar II

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King of Babylon. was prideful so he turns into a animal and eats looks and acts like an animal for 7 years and it humbles him
Rebuilt city of Babylon including hanging gardens+ishtar gate

Question 5

Cyrus

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Great king of the Achaemenid empire. Lived in Persia but after he invaded Babylon, ruled Babylon. He also allowed Jews to go home.

Question 6

Darius I/ Darius the great

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Persian ruler. 3rd king of kings of the Achaemenid empire. Reigned from 522BC to 486 BC when he died

Question 7

Herodotus

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A Greek historian and geographer. Lived in 5th century BC. Known as the father of history. First historian to record and document historical events. From helicarnasus.

Question 8

Leonidas

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King of Sparta. Son of king Anaxandrias II and 17th king of the Agiad dynasty.
Fought in Persian war
Led 300 Spartans at battle of Thermopylae pass.

Question 9

Xerxes

Answer 9

Persian ruler served
Invaded Greece in 480 bc
Inherited a multi ethnic empire bc of his father’s death.

Question 10

Hippocrates

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First documented heart surgeon
Clean and strict
Father of Medicine
Lived in greek

Question 11

Thucydides

Answer 11

Considered greatest historian. Fought in the pelopenesian wars
Got to see both sides bc he was exiled to another.

Question 12

Buddha

Answer 12

Indian prince(sidartha) 7th century bc
Founded Buddhism (the middle way)
Means lighten one

Question 13

Aeschylus

Answer 13

Ancient Greek trajedian. Described as the father of tragedy.

Question 14

Themosticles

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Athenian politician and general. Creator of Athenian sea power. And chief of Greece from subjection of Persian empire

Question 15

The Nile

Answer 15

Flows up
Like there highway
Overflows every year
Helpful bc it waters crops and keeps everything living