Vocabulary 2

Question 1

Bactria

Answer 1

Modern-day Afghanistan, home to Roxane, a nomadic territory in Central Asia

Question 2

Cicero

Answer 2

Career politician from Rome; orator, murdered by Marc Antony for his outspoken views

Question 3

Consul

Answer 3

Highest elected position in Roman Republic, two each year from patrician class

Question 4

Cyrus

Answer 4

Persian ruler who united the Medes and the Persian, thereby establishing the Persian Empire

Question 5

Darius

Answer 5

Persian ruler who dealt with Ionian Revolt and lost at the Battle of Marathon

Question 6

Delian Leauge

Answer 6

An Athenian-based coalition used to help protect Greece from a future Persian invasion

Question 7

Hellenic

Answer 7

Culture associated with the polis and the Greek world of Salamis

Question 8

Hellenistic

Answer 8

The intermingling of ancient Greek culture with ancient Near East/Central Asian cultures

Question 9

Helots

Answer 9

Enslaved individuals from Messenia who served as agriculturalists for the Spartans

Question 10

Kom el-Shoqafa

Answer 10

Hellenistic catacombs in Alexandria

Question 11

Lacadamonians

Answer 11

Inhabitants who enslaved the helots and elevated military service and devalued family ties and attachments to wealth and luxury

Question 12

Linear A

Answer 12

Language of the Minoan world

Question 13

Linear B

Answer 13

Language of the Mycenean world

Question 14

Livy

Answer 14

Historian who wrote a history of Rome in Latin about the Republic

Question 15

Marius

Answer 15

Roman general and consul who sought to democratize the military, opponent of Sulla

Question 16

Megaron

Answer 16

Large hearth located within the audience hall of Mycenean palaces

Question 17

Olympia

Answer 17

Mother of Alexander the Great

Question 18

Pergamon

Answer 18

Hellenistic city with Temple of Zeus, a library, and a Temple to Athena

Question 19

Persepolis

Answer 19

Persian city burned by Alexander the Great during a drunken stupor and capital of the Persian Empire

Question 20

Phalanx

Answer 20

Greek military formation of hoplites

Question 21

Philip II

Answer 21

Macedonian king who successfully conquered Greece

Question 22

Punic Wars

Answer 22

One hundred year conflict between the Phoenicians at Carthage and the Romans

Question 23

Spartacus

Answer 23

Gladitoral leader who successfully rallied a revolt against Rome and defeated Crassus

Question 24

Sulla

Answer 24

Dictator, former consul, and general who marched on Rome and murdered his enemies; supported by Crassus

Question 25

Tiberius Gracchus

Answer 25

First Roman murdered for his political views; desired economic reforms for Plebians