Grecia y Roma clasicas

Question 1

Pericles

Answer 1

A statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens. He also promoted democracy.

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote about virtually every area of knowledge, including most of the sciences.

Question 3

Direct Democracy

Answer 3

forms of direct participation of citizens in democratic decision making.

Question 4

Philip II of Macedon

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Diocletian

Answer 5

A Roman emperor from 284 to 305.

Question 6

Augustus Caesar

Answer 6

Returning to Rome in triumph, Octavian added the title Augustus (meaning “sacred” or “exalted”) to his adopted surname, Caesar, and remained imperator for life.

Question 7

Socrates

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a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

Question 8

Punic Wars

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a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire.

Question 9

The Roman Republic

Answer 9

The era of classical Roman civilization, led by the Roman people, beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom

Question 10

Peloponnesian Wars

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a war fought for supremacy in Greece from 431 to 404 bc, in which Athens and her allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta.

Question 11

Zoroastrianism

Answer 11

one of the world’s oldest continuously practiced religions.

Question 12

Olympic Games

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the greatest of the games or festivals of ancient Greece, held every four years in the plain of Olympia in Elis, in honor of Zeus.

Question 13

Constantine

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Or also known as Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.

Question 14

Iliad and odyssey

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The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors.

Question 15

Sappho

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630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos.

Question 16

Carthage

Answer 16

An ancient Phoenician city-state and civilization

Question 17

Plato

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an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece

Question 18

Stoics

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a member of the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism.

Question 19

Julius Caesar

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a renowned general, politician and scholar in ancient Rome who conquered the vast region of Gaul and helped initiate the end of the Roman Republic when he became dictator of the Roman Empire.

Question 20

Doric

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was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture

Question 21

Hannibal

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was the son of Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca

Question 22

Cyrus the great

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also called Cyrus II, (born 590–580 BCE, Media, or Persis [now in Iran]—died c. 529, Asia), conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia.

Question 23

The Hellenistic Period

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

Question 24

Constantine

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Or also known as Constantine the Great was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.

Question 25

Alexandria

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Alexander the Great swept down into Egypt with his army where he founded Alexandria in the small port town of Rhakotis by the sea.

Question 26

Corinthian

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relating to the lightest and most ornate of the three ancient Greek architectural orders distinguished especially by its large capitals decorated with carved acanthus leave.

Question 27

Senate

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the governing and advisory council that proved to be the most permanent element in the Roman constitution

Question 28

Consuls

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one of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic.

Question 29

Cicero

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a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)

Question 30

Ionic

Answer 30

of or relating to the ancient Greek architectural order distinguished especially by fluted columns on bases and scroll volutes in its capitals