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  1. 3. was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
  2. 5. was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
  3. 8. were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
  4. 13. relating to Greek history, language, and culture from the death of Alexander the Great to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian in 31 BC.
  5. 15. an aristocrat or nobleman.
  6. 17. was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.
  7. 19. the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries.
  8. 20. was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
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  1. 1. was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas
  2. 2. a war between citizens of the same country.
  3. 4. lies on the Mediterranean Sea at the western edge of the Nile River delta, about 114 miles (183 km) northwest of Cairo in Lower Egypt.
  4. 6. a unit of 3,000–6,000 men in the ancient Roman army.
  5. 7. a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.
  6. 9. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
  7. 10. (in ancient Rome) a commoner.
  8. 11. a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
  9. 12. was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.
  10. 14. were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between Rome and Carthage.
  11. 16. an official in ancient Rome chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests.
  12. 18. an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government's citizens and interests there.