SP 25 HIS 1113 Exam II Study Guide

Key Topics for Study

• Iron Age Civilizations

• Phoenicians

• Hebrews

• Abraham

• Covenant

• Early Kings of Israel

• Assyrians

• Neo-Babylonian Empire

• Persians

• Satrapies & Satraps

• Cyrus the Great

• Darius I

• Zoroastrianism

• Ancient Greece

• Pericles

• Minoan Civilization

• Mycenaean Civilization

• Battle of Marathon

• Athenian Oligarchy & Democracy

• Spartan Biarchy

• Helots

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Homer's Iliad

• Areopagus

• Peloponnesian War

• Differences Between Athens & Sparta

• Battle of Thermopylae

• Roman Republic

• Paterfamilias

• Patricians & Plebeians

• Creation & Composition of the Government

• Imperium

• Cursus Honorum

• Punic Wars

• Battle of Salamis

• Latifundia

• Julius Caesar

• 1st & 2nd Triumvirates

• Cincinnatus

• Roman Civil Wars

• Gracchi Brothers

• Octavian/Augustus

• Creation of Roman Empire

• Etruscans

• Gaul

• Patricians & Plebeians

• Veto

• Pax Romana

Short-Answer Questions for Part III

• How did the Battle of Salamis contribute to the Greeks stopping the Persian invasion?

• How did iron technology result in the creation of the first large empires?

• How did the Athenian democracy work?

• How did Solon reform the government of Athens?

• What were the main consequences of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest?

• How was the government of the 1st Persian Empire organized?