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The high and beautiful arrangement of buildings in Athens that is crowned by the Parthenon. |
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First great tradegy writer of Classical Greece. |
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The greatest city (found in Egypt) during the Hellenistic Age under King Ptolemy. |
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New form of art developed in Akhenaton's new capital at Tel el-Amarna. |
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Greek god of intellect, prophecy, music, and medicine. |
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Egyptian pharoah who attempted to change Egypts religion to monotheistic and moved the capital to Tel el-Amarna. |
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Great Greek author of comedies. |
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Student of Plato who said taht perfect forms were present in the world around us. Lyceum. |
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First emperor of Rome, was Octaivious, and under him Rome thrived. |
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Hammuraib's city that was successful and unified until 1550 BC when it was taken over by the Kassites. |
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Female statues that served as columns on the Erecheum in Athens. |
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Became the new capital of imperial Rome that, was the beginning of the end, and moved by the emporer Constantine. |
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Rome fell when the last emporer (augustulus) died. |
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Type of capital that is bell shaped. |
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First form of writing using wedge shapes during the Summerian Age. |
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God of wine and pleasure for whon plays were dedicated. |
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Simplest and grandest of all Greek or Roman columns. |
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School of Roman philosophy that believed the goal of all human action is pleasure. |
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Greek meeting place for the Senate of general assemblies. |
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First historian who wrote History of the Persian Wars. He believed the Persians lost the war because they were morally wrong. |
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Summerian king who starred as the protagonist in the first great work of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh. |
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Followed the Roman Age and continued many of Roman traditions. |
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Ancient Egyptian writing. |
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First great author who wrote the Iliad and Odessey. |
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First archetictect to come up with the concept of funerary pyramids. Designed one for Zoser. |
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More eloborate type of Greek column. |
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Free standing, nude, male statue in early Greece. |
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Amazing structure used under King Minos that was excavated in 1894 by Athur Miller. Where the myth of the maze and the Minotaur came about. |
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Roman buidling that was made with a huge dome. |
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Most fantastic of all buildings on the Acropolis that served as a temple to Athena. |
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Greatest Asian city and learning center during the Classical Greek reign. |
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Hero in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War; was Athenian; used money from the Delian League; sybolizes the Golden Age of Greece. |
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Best student of Socrates who recorded all his works; believed in the Theory of Forms. |
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First female poet who wrote about her own experiences. |
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First great Greek phisopher who tauoght though questions, did not record any of his treachings, and was put to death. |
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First civilization that was found in the Fertile Crecsent of Mesopotamia; responsible for writing, first epic, and Semetic lanuage. |
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Author of History of Ploponnesian Wars who was unbias and an Athenian. |
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Roman author who speant the last ten years of his life in order to write the Aeneid which would honor Rome/Augustus. |
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Earliest statues or work of visual art that showed a women with enlargened the female body's sexual organs. |
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The chief buildings of Mesopotamian civilizations that were consturctedusing large brick platforms. Probably had religous significance. |
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