European Empires Webquest Words
1.Mycenaean - Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Mycenae.
2.Trojan War - a ten-year war waged by the confederated Greeks under Agamemnon against the Trojans to avenge the abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, and ending in the plundering and burning of Troy.
3.Homer - a Hebrew unit of capacity equal to ten baths in liquid measure or ten ephahs in dry measure.
4.Polis - an ancient Greek city-state.
5.Helot - a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
6.Phalanx - a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
7.Persian War - were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia
8.Peloponnesian War - a war between Athens and Sparta, 431–404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta.
9.Socrates -Athenian philosopher
10.Plato - Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates.
11.Aristotle - Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.
12.Alexander the Great - king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.
13.Republic - a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state.
14.Patrician - a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome.
15.Plebeian - of pertaining to, or belonging to the ancient Roman plebs.
16.Punic Wars - the three wars waged by Rome against Carthage,
17.Hannibal - Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy
18.Julius Caesar - Roman general, statesman, and historian who invaded Britain, crushed the army of his political enemy Pompey
19.Triumvirate - the office or magistracy of a triumvir.
20.Augustus - Also called Octavian, first Roman emperor reformer, patron of arts and literature; heir and successor to Julius Caesar.
21.Jesus - the source of the Christian religion.
22.Constantine - Roman emperor named Constantinople as the new capital; legally sanctioned Christian worship.
23.Constantinople - the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire
24.Attila - king of the Huns who invaded Europe: defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451 at Châlons-sur-Marne in France.
25.Justinian - Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians.
26.Hagia Sophia - a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church
27.Gengis Khan - Mongol conqueror of most of Asia and of E Europe to the Dnieper River.
28.Kublai Khan - Founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
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