HI 101 Midterm - Mr Goodson

255-206 B.C.

Ch'in dynasty in China/Great Wall of China

What Cushite helped the prophet Jeremiah when he was cast into prison?

Ebed-melech

First African on record to become a Christian

Ethiopian eunuch

Two slaves who preached the gospel in Ethiopia

Edesius

Frumentius

What cities owned by Rome became important and influential centers of Christianity.

Alexandria

Cyrene

Carthage

Is remembered as the man who carried Jesus's cross

Simon of Cyrene

Two church fathers in Carthage who were martyred

Tertullian

Cyprian

Oldest surviving Christian hymn

Shepherd of Tender Youth

Two greatest North African Christians

Athanasius

Augustine

What empire dominated trade across the Sahara?

Ghana Empire

Which empire dominated most of what is now Gambia, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal?

Mali Empire

Who was the ruler of the Mali Empire?

Mansa Musa

What was the important trading center of the Mali Empire

Timbuktu

Third great African kingdom

Songhai Empire

Greatest ruler of Benin

King Ewuare

The belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits

animism

The first important European civilization after the Flood

Minoans

The greeks of the Trojan War mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey

Mycenae

The Greeks of classical times who made such great contributions to Western civilization

Hellenes

Wrote Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer

Date of the first year of the Olympic Games

776 B.C.

The period between the Olympics

Olympiad

Greco-Persian Wars date

490 B.C.

Date for the Battle of Plataea

479 B.C.

What was the turning point in world history

Xerxes' defeat in Greece

Rule by one

monarchy

Who was the monarch of Greece advised by

Council of Elders and Assembly

Rule by the best

aristocracy

rule by the few

oligarchy

rule by one man who has seized power by rebellion and insurrection

tyranny

rule by the many or the common people

democracy

what were helots

slaves

What was Sparta's chief accomplishment

the formation of the Peloponnesian League

What code of Athens was merciless and "written in blood"

Draco's Code

Who was elected archon after Draco

Solon

Only archons were eligible for

the Court of Areopagus

What tyrant practiced ostracism?

Cleisthenes

Who brought Arthenian democracy to its fullest measure?

Pericles

Citizens elect a few men who represent them in the government

representative democracy

The citizens made the big decisions of government directly themselves, not indirectly through representatives

direct democracy

The age of Pericles is often referred to as the

Golden Age of Greece

Who became the king of Macedonia in 359 BC

Philip II

Who urged the Greeks to unite against the Macedonian threat?

Demosthenes

What did Demosthenes organize

Hellenic League

Who took the throne after Philip II

Alexander the Great

What happened in 334 BC

Alexander crossed the Hellespont

What was Alexanders most lasting contribution to world history that helped prepare the world for the coming of Jesus Christ?

Spreading Greek culture

What happened after the battle of Ipsus

the empire was divided among four generals

Who said "Man is the measure of all things"

Protagoras

What Athenian temple was dedicated to Athena?

the Parthenon

Who was the Greek Father of History

Herodotus

Who was the first great Greek poet?

Homer

Known for introducing fables

Aesop

Who wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone?

Sophocles

Used his plays to satirize political and cultural life in Athens

Aristophanes

The Father of Medicine

Hippocrates

Developed a theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms

Democritus

Those that believe there are no absolute truths

Relativists

Who said "What is the best way to live?"

Socrates

Attempted to find an explanation for the obvious order, design, and purpose in the universe.

Plato

Concluded that the order of the universe must have come from God

Aristotle

Who did Aristotle place at the center of all things

Man

Founded the school of philosophy known as Stoicism

Zeno

Taught that the highest good of man was to live a life of calm pleasure regulated by morality....ect

Epicurus

Strabo was famous for

Geography

Aristatarchus of Samos was known for

the theory that the earth revolves around the sun

Euclid systemized...

plane geometry

Hipparchus

Trigonometry

Archimedes

mathematics, engineering, and physics

Greek common language

koine

Three ancestors that settled Italy

Latins, Etruscans, Greeks

Who was associated with the Second Punic War

Scipio

When was Carthage completely destroyed

During the Third Punic War

When were the Romans masters of the Mediterranean world?

133 BC

The two brothers who became tribune around 133 BC

Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

Idol of the Masses

Marius

Champion of the senate

Sulla

The two men who were chief competitors after the death of Sulla

Pompey and Julius Caesar

Who formed the First Triumvirate?

Pompey

Julius Caesar

Crassus

What did Julius Caesar introduce?

The Julian Calendar

When did Julius Caesar die?

March 15, 44 BC

Who formed the Second Triumvirate?

Mark Antony

Octavian

Lepidus

Who was known as Princeps, Caesar, Imperator, Pontifex Maximus, or Augustus?

Octavian

Who reined during the birth of Jesus Christ around 4 BC

Octavian as Caesar Augustus

Who ruled the empire during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and at the time of the Savior's death, resurrection, and ascension around AD 30?

Tiberius

Who was the insane ruler after Tiberius?

Caligula

Who brought the first great outbreak of persecution against the New Testament church?

Nero

Emperor after Nero who helped restore political and economic stability to the empire.

Vespasian

Two Flavian Emperors

Titus and Domitian

When did Titus capture Jerusalem?

AD 70

What happened during Titus's rain

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

The five good emperors

Nerva

Trajan

Hadrian

Antonius Pius

Marcus Aurelius

Who made Christianity legal?

Constantine I

When was the Edict of Milan>

AD 313

When was the Roman Empire divided?

AD 395

Who divided the Roman Empire?

Theodosius I

Who invaded Italy

The Visigoths under Alaric

Who ravaged North Africa?

Vandals

Who invaded Britain

Angles

Saxons

Jutes

Who was the last Roman Emperor?

Romulus Augustulus