unit 2- world history

4. a violent conflict between organized groups within a country that are fighting over control of the government, one side's separatist goals, or some divisive government policy
6. a historic region that spans parts of northern Greece and the Balkan Peninsula
9. one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history
10. “a contention by force”;
12. the most famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece.
13. The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E.
14. a colossal statue of the Greek sun god Helios that stood in the ancient Greek city of Rhodes
15. the first emperor of ancient Rome.
18. pre-eminent Greek philosopher
20. a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire

1. the capital of Egypt from its founding by Alexander the Great in 332 bce until its surrender to the Arab forces led by ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ in 642 ce
2. a member of the Habsburg dynasty.
3. an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history's greatest military minds who, as King of Macedonia and Persia, established the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen
5. a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader;
7. third Persian King of the Achaemenid Empire.
8. a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
11. the time period from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. in the Roman Empire.
16. a political institution ruled or dominated by three individuals,
17. any of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus Christ
19. the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity