Grecia y Roma Clasicas

Question 1

Cyrus the Great

Answer 1

Was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire

Question 2

Zoroastrianism

Answer 2

One of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions.

Question 3

Olympic Games

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Leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

Question 4

Pericles

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prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age.

Question 5

Peloponnesian Wars

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ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

Question 6

Philip II of Macedon

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was the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC.

Question 7

Hellenistic Period

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the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire.

Question 8

Roman Republic

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was the era of classical Roman civilization, led by the Roman people, beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.

Question 9

Punic wars

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were a series of three wars between 264 and 146 BC fought by the states of Rome and Carthage.

Question 10

Carthage

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Founded by the Phoenicians in the first millennium B.C., it was once the seat of the powerful Carthaginian (Punic) Empire

Question 11

Hannibal

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Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage’s main forces against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

Question 12

Julius Caesar

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was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

Question 13

Augustus Caesar

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was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.

Question 14

Diocletian

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was a Roman emperor from 284 to 305.

Question 15

Constantine

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also known as Constantine I, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.

Question 16

Direct Democracy

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Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.

Question 17

Senate

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the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries.

Question 18

Consuls

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an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government’s citizens and interests there.

Question 19

Cicero

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was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and Academic skeptic who played an important role in the politics of the late Roman Republic

Question 20

Aristotle

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was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Question 21

Stoics

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school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC.

Question 22

Socrates

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Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy,

Question 23

Plato

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was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Question 24

Sophocles

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one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.

Question 25

Sappho

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was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre.

Question 26

Doric

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relating to or denoting a classical order of architecture characterized by a sturdy fluted column and a thick square abacus resting on a rounded molding.

Question 27

Ionic

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one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

Question 28

Corinthian

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the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.