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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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