| A | B |
|---|
| Julius Ceasar | dictator for life, conquered Gaul |
| Augustus Caesar | first Emperor of Rome; his rule started the Pax Romana |
| plebeian | middle/low Roman social class |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general who fought with elephants |
| Justinian | Byzantine emperor; built the Hagia Sophia |
| Theodora | Justianian's wife |
| Paul | important Christian apostle; helped spread Christianity |
| Diocletian | Roman emperor who divided the empire into 2 parts |
| Constantine | made Christianity legal and moved the capital to Byzantium |
| First Triumvirate | Marcus Crasses, Pompey, and Julis Ceasar |
| Virgil | wrote the Aeneid |
| Homer | wrote the Illiad and Odyssey |
| Alexander the Great | conquered Greece and all of old persian empire around |
| Jesus of Nazareth | prophet of Christianity |
| Ptolemy | Roman scientist; though the universe was geocentric (earth centered) |
| Cleopatra | Egyptian ruler, had an affair with Marc Antony |
| Octavian | Augustus Caesar's name before becoming emperor |
| St. Cyril | adapted the Slav alphabet to the Greek to create Cyrillic alphabet |
| Pope | leader of the Catholic church |
| Patriarch | leader of the Greek Orthodox church |
