| A | B |
|---|
| Pharoah's of Egypt | Ramses, Cheops, & Tutankhamen |
| Draco | known for his merciless law code |
| Hagia Sophis | Cathedral built by Justinian |
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer who served Kublai Khan |
| Arianism | denied the deity of Jesus Christ, therby denying His holiness and redemptive work |
| iconoclast | image destroyer |
| Battle of Salamis | A great defeat for the Persian Navy and the first major naval battle in history |
| Homer | Wrote the Iliad & Odyssey |
| Sulla | Beat Marius in Rome's first civil war |
| herodotus | Greek "father of history" |
| Punic | wars between Rome and Carthage |
| Pax Romana | period of peace |
| Representative democracy | voting citizens can elect people to rule for them |
| Plebian | common people of Rome |
| William Carey | father of modern missions |
| aristocracy | rule by the best |
| Augustine | wrote "City of God" |
| Julias Caesar | Was murdered by a group of Roman senators on March 15, 44 B.C. |
| Nero | began 1st persecution of the Christians |
| Achilles | famous Greek hero in Homer's works |
| Philip II | Ruler in Macedonia before conquereing nearly all of Greece |
| Diocletian | initiated the tenth and greatest persecution |
| Caste System | the strict social class system in India |
| Persepolis | was not one of the names for the city called New Rome |
| Mali | African empire founded by Mansa Musa |
| Chiang Kai-shek | led the Nationalist Chinese in their civil war |
| acropolis | hilltop fortress |
| oligarchy | rule by a few |
| Ottoman Turks | conquered Byzantium |
| Cyrus | United the Medes and Persians to begin the Persian empire |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian writing |
| A.D. 100 | The New Testament was completed |
| Apologist | a defender of the faith |
| Peisistratus | first tyrant of Athens |
| Jerome | produced the latin Vulgate |
| Messiah | Hebrew for "Annointed One" |
| Caesar | crossed the Rubicon and became master of Rome |
| Leonidas | Spartan general |
| Townsend Harris | opened Japan to missions |
| Minoans | Lived on the island of Crete & developed a highly skilled civilization |
| Hammurabi | Old Babylonian ruler |
| Persecuted Christians & Martyrs | spurred others on to become Christians |
| Cyril & Methodius | Byzantine missionaries |
| Hannibal | great Carthaginian general |
| Octavian | defeated Antony at the Battle of Actium |
| gladiator | criminal forced to fight in public show |
| democracy | rule by many or the common people |
| Zeus | supposed king of the Greek gods |
| Blandina | Christian girl martyred in her faith |
| Pericles | great Athenian statesman |
| Mt. Vesuvius | erupted & buried Herculaneum and Pompeii |
| J. Hudson Taylor | founded China Inland Mission |
| catacombs | underground tunnels |
| Pantheon | Roman temple & great classical architecture |
| Eastern Orthodox | known for its use of the Greek liturgy |
| Theodora | great influence on the law code of Justinian |
