| A | B |
|---|
| heiroglyphics | egyptian picture writing |
| aristotle | known fof logic and science of reasoning |
| socrates | taught by asking questions forced to drink the poison hemlock |
| menes - harmer | united upper and lower Egypt |
| polytheism | a belief in many gods |
| cunieform | wedged shaped writing developed by the Sumerians |
| hippocrates | Athenian "father of medicine" |
| medea | a play by Eruipedes |
| Hammurabi | babylonian leader who had his law code carved in stone |
| Alexander the Great | conquered the Persian empire and spread Hellenistic culture |
| plato | wrote The Republic in which he favored oligarchy |
| Pax Romana | peace of rome |
| Punic wars | rome fought and defeated Carthage |
| Pericles | great leader of Athens during its "Golden Age" |
| Issus | Darius of persia id defeated by Alexander the Great |
| Peloponnesian war | Athens against Sparta |
| Mesopotamia | land "between the rivers" |
| Parthenon | the temple to Athena |
| Zeus | the most powerful of the Greek Gods |
| Polis | Greek city state |
| Homer | the Illiad and the Odessey |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general who used elephants in his invasion of Rome |
| Macedonians | built by Cyrus the Great and Darius I into a great empire |
| Persians | led by Philip, they conquered the Greek city states |
| Tigris | along with the Euphrates it formed Mesopotamia |
| pharoah | title of ruler of Egypt "Royal House" |
| Cheops Khufu | the Great Pyramid at Giza was built for him |
| Caesar | leader of the Romans |
| Latin | language of the Roman civilization |
| Marathon | Athenians defeat the Persians in this battle in 490 BC |
