| A | B |
|---|
| Diocletian | 284ad became Emperor after being a general |
| Cicero | perfected a clear, logical style of writting |
| Hammurabi | Developed code of law "eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth" |
| Hippocrates | great legendary doctors, used physicans to maintain high moral standards |
| First Triumvirate | 60bc Ceasar and Pompey formed alliance with Maruc Lucius Crassus to rule Rome together |
| Horace | Roman poet famous for glorifing the Pax Romana |
| Herodotus | Historian who though Spartans were best fights in the world - thought their success came from their discipline and obedience. |
| Socrates | - critic of the Sophists - philosopher and teach 469-399 BC - known for famous student Plato. |
| Epicurus | - philosopher - claimed that Gods took no interest in human affairs and there was no afterlife. |
| Etruscans | - migrated into Italy from Asia Minor - seized Rome in 600 BC. |
| Goths | - Barbarians known for architecture with nice churches - Goth means "German" |
| Huns | came into Eastern Europe as warriors and conquered it. |
| Danes | english name for Vikings |
| Charlemagne | 1100 - provided trade and provided protection - reunited Western Roman Empire and defeated Lombards - tried to spread Christianity. |
| Dante | medieval poet, wrote "Divine Comedy" - combined poetry, theology, and history. |
| Chaucer | English poet - influenced Vernacular literature - Wrote "Canterbury Tales" - wrote about lives of everyday people and influenced town life. |
| Henry IV | Holy Emperor who wanted to annoint church officials who would support him against German Dukes. |
| Pope Innocent III | excommunicated John III - played important roll in the 4th crusade. |
| Joan of Arc | 1429 - led French - forced English to retreat from Orleans. |
| Thomas Becket | - appointed archbishop of Canterbury - opposed the king's policy toward the Church Courts and became enemies |
| Lydians | 500 BC advanced in the career of writing, trade and religion |
| Paleolithic man | 500,000 BC - he made simple tools; nomads. |
| Neolithic man | - 10,000 - 3500 BC - New Stone Age - learned to make cloth, pottery, weave, and turn over soil. |
| pharoah | - had "extensive" power - had name meaning Great House - Egyptians believed pharaoh was a God and son of the Sun God, Amon-Re. |
| scribes | young man who learned to read and write - worked in ruler's service in temples or in wealthy merchant homes. |
| Persians | conquered Egypt with Assyrians in 331 BC |
| sudras | - servants and peasants tied to the lands |
| Shang | - 1600s - powerful king established control over northern China and founded Shang dynasty. |
| Sophists | adj. of sophis |
| Pericles | - rebuilt Athens and drew attention to Parthenon |
| Pythagoras | - studied mathematics and astronomy -well known to students of geometry because he found relationship between lengths of rides of a right triangle. |
| Patricians | - early Republic, Roman society was dominated by a class of wealthy landowners - controlled government of early Republic through Senate - made of 300 patricians. |
| Plebians | common people - farmer, small merchants and traders - they could not own land, and could not marry into patrician families. |
| Tribunes | - official in ancient Rome who was elected by plebeians to speak for their interests. |
| Missi dominci | during Charlemagne's rule, royal officials who ?cheated? on the administrations of local nobles. |
| senate | made up of 200 patricians serving for life - guided foreign and domestic policies. |
| Nero | - Roman emperor 64 AD - blamed Christians for the fire and killed hundreds of them. (the fire that destroyed much of Rome |
| Phoenicians | made advancements in writing, trade, and religion. Developed basic alphabet - built small city-states along Easter Mediterranean Coast. |
