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www.YoYoBrain.com - Accelerators for Memory and Learning Questions for Greece and Rome: An Integrated History by Dr. Garland Category: Origins - (4 questions) Where did the Ionian and Dorian Greeks Ionians believed they were indigenous believe they were from Dorians believed they were descendents of Heracles Who was the son of Aeneas, founder of Ascanius who founded city Alba Longa - Rome precursor to Rome Who was the mother of Romulus and Remus Rhea Silvia who was raped by Mars, the god of war Who was the first to suggest in writing that Greek mythographer - Hellanicus from 5th Aeneas was founder of Rome century B.C. Category: Trade & Travel - (3 questions) Commonest form of container in ancient two handled jar - amphora world 2 Greek cities that became centers for transit Rhodes and Delos trade in Hellenistic period What year did Pompey the Great bring 67 B.C. pirates under control Category: Government and Laws - (5 questions) When was the expulsions of kings in Rome 510 B.C. 3 parts of Roman Republic government elected magistrates, popular assemblies and the Senate Earliest Roman law code Law of the Twelve Tables (around 450 B.C.) Earliest surviving Greek law code from Deros on Crete dated around 650 B.C. Under what conditions what testimony of only when given under torture slaves accepted in Greece and Rome Category: Early Encounters - (5 questions) What was southern Italy known as during 6th Magna Graecia or "Great Greece" century B.C. Books of prophecy from pre-500 B.C. that Sibylline Books (compiled by Greeks) Romans believed in 2 leagues in Greece in Hellenistic era Aetolian League to the north Acaean League to the south Trigger event for the First Punic War started over Messana, a Greek colony that controlled the Sicilian Straits What Roman general announced freedom of Flamininus Greeks after defeating Phillip V in 197 Category: Religion - (10 questions) Define: haruspicy examination of entrails When and why were first Greek gods 496 B.C. in response to a famine entered into Roman pantheon When did Romans make first contact with 394 B.C. Delphic Oracle When were all distinctions between Greek in 217 B.C. after defeat by Hanibal at Battle and Roman gods annulled in Rome of Lake Trasimene When did Romans become resistent to early 2nd century B.C. foreign gods When and what was Roman 'Bacchanalian passed in 186 B.C. banning worship of decree" Bacchus Who was the first Roman recipient of divine Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus honors in Greece What city did Seleucus I Nicator found as Antioch capital of Selecuid Empire in 300 B.C. Identify: Great Altar of Pergaman - has frieze depicting a battle between gods and giants When was first recorded instance of under Nero in 64 A.D. Christian persecution Category: 190 - 33 BC - (12 questions) Main source for Roman history during Greek Polybius who wrote 40 books 190-146 BC Who took over Macedonian kingdom after son Perseus, who came to throne in 179 Philip V B.C. What did Rome do with Macedon after divided into 4 independent republics defeating Perseus in 168 B.C. When did Rome sack Corinth 146 B.C. When did Rome sack Corinth 146 B.C. Who was first Attalid ruler in Pergamum Philetaerus Which Attalid ruler had the stoa in the Agora Attalus II built in 150 B.C. When did Perguman come under Roman Attallid III left it in will in 133 B.C. rule When did Mithridatic rebellion begin 88 B.C. What general made peace with Mithradates Sulla VI in 85 B.C. When and who refounded Corinth after Julias Caesar in 40's B.C. Roman destruction What Roman annexed Syria and when Pompey in 64 B.C. Category: Military - (3 questions) What was meaning of Greek grave marker of showed a young man that died in battle kouros (statue of naked youth) When did Rome first develop navy during First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) When did Rome first develop navy during First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) Category: Social - (7 questions) Define: Roman entertainment form entertainers who recited excerpts from rhapsodes Homer What were the home entertainment forms for Greeks - symposium; no wives only hired Greeks and Romans women Roman - convivium; wives or any freeborn women could attend What form of entertainment during Roman mimes times produced the biggest celebrity artists What did the Greek and Roman terms for the shameful things sexual organs translate to Roman and Greek moors on premarital sex definitely out for freeborn girls permitted for freeborn boys Roman and Greek attitudes toward male Greeks condoned it, Olympics were in the nakedness nude Romans regarded it as shameful and degrading Roman and Greek attitudes towards dead both considered dead bodies polluting, bodies Greeks more so Category: Greeks in Rome - (2 questions) What Roman was patron of historian Scipio Aemilianus Polybius First dramatist to have a play performed in Livius Andronicus (240 B.C.) Rome Category: Imperial Rome - (20 questions) What general was defeated by Germans Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 B.C. under Augustus' rule Identify: Prima Porta statue of Roman emperor Augustus Identify: Altar of Augustan Peace from 9 B.C. When did Nero reign 54 - 68 A.D. When was Athens invaded by Goths 260 A.D. When did Athens cultural significance end 529 A.D. when emperor Justinian forbade and why any pagan to teach philosophy What emperor was killed in battle by Goths Decius in 251 A.D. Who divided Roman Empire into 2 halves Diocletian in 287 A.D. - split along modern and when Yugoslavia in the north, and Libya and Egypt to the south What defeat occured in eastern Roman Goths defeated army at Hadrianopolis killing empire in 378 A.D. emperor Valens What city was named capital of western Ravenna Roman empire in 401 A.D. When did Carthage fall to the Vandals from 439 A.D. Rome Who was the last western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus Who was the first barbarian ruler of Italy after Odoacer in 476 A.D. Rome collapsed What battle gave Constantine title of defeating Maxentius at Milvian Bridge in 312 emperor of west What was Edict of Milan passed by Emperor 313 guaranteed the toleration to both pagans Constantine and Licinius and Christians When did Constantine become sole emperor 324 after defeating Licinius of Rome What Roman emperor first outlawed Theodosius I (379-395) paganism Who was the last emperor to rule both east Theodosius I 379-395 and west When did Justinian reconquer Italy 554 When did Lombards take Italy away from 568 Rome after reconquest by Justinian Category: Art - (5 questions) Identify: bronze she-wolf (La Lupa Capotolina) earliest bronze work found from Rome When did Rome defeat Macedonian king 168 B.C. Perseus Identify: Discus Thrower by Myron (Greek) Who wrote the only surviving Roman treatise Vitruvius on architecture Main difference between Roman and Greek Greek can be approached from any angle; temples Roman only from the front Roman temples stand on higher podiums Category: Science - (5 questions) The most influential astronomer of ancient Ptolomy of Alexandria (100-170 A.D.) times What ancient Greek proposed earth rotates Heraclides of Pontus (387-312 B.C.) on its axis daily What ancient Greek proposed the sun is at Aristarchus of Samos (early 3rd century the center of the universe B.C.) What Greek discovered the procession of the Hipparchus of Nicaea (135 B.C.) equinoxes What Greek worked out actual length of year Sosigenes of Alexandria in 46 B.C. leading to Julian calendar Category: Literature - (5 questions) Who was first Roman epic poet Gnaeus Naevius (270-201) wrote poem The Punic War Describe: Annales epic poem by Quintus Ennius (239-169 B.C.) about the whole of Roman history down until his own time How were actors classified in Roman inames, "without honor" and denied full Republic citizenship When did Rome acquire its first permanent 55 B.C. theatre First Latin poet to specialize in tragedy Marcus Pacuvius (220-130 B.C.) Category: Philosophy - (4 questions) When was first philosophical school 224 A.D. by Plotinus, founder of established in Rome Neoplatinism Who was the Roman author of On the Lucretius (98-55 B.C.) - tribute to Epicurus Nature of the Universe When were the heads of 3 of major Greek 167 B.C. philosophical schools invited to speak at Rome What philosophical work was written about 55-135 AD Enchiridion - guidebook to Roman Epictetus' teachings morality of period Category: Jews - (8 questions) Under what dynasty was Jewish Hasmonean dynasty independence established in 142-63 B.C. What Roman general conquered Judea and Pompey in 63 B.C. when Who ruled Judea as client king from 37-4 Herod the Great B.C. When did Augustus annex Judea into Rome 6 A.D. When did communal violence break out in 38 A.D. Alexandria between Greeks and Jews during imperial Rome Who is the major source for Jewish revolt Josephus author of The Jewish War against Rome in 64 A.D. When was Jewish rebellion against Rome 73 A.D. crushed When did second Jewish revolt against 132 A.D. - Bar-Kochba Revolt Rome happen.