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What was the first strategic sea in maritime history?

• The Mediterranean sea

• The Indian ocean

• The gulf of mexico

• atlantic ocean

What famous war was fought to secure control of the Turkish Straits in order to insure Mycenaean control of the Aegean Black sea trade?

• Vietnam war

• The revolutionary war

• The trojan war

• The Crete war

What Persian Leader and son of Darius led a Persian army of 180,000 men and 1,300 galleys in a second invasion of Greece in 480 BC?

• Phonecians

• Xerxes

• Crete

• Lebanon

Who said "Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partially or prejudice"

• Herodotus

• George Washington

• George W. Busch

• Ulysses S Grant

In spite of having a severe disadvantage of numbers Themistocles was able to defeat Xerxes Persian fleet at Salamis primarily by using what feature of the sea?

• Mare Nostrum

• Cape of good hope

• the Panama Canal

• The narrow straits

What city is known as the birthplace of democracy in government?

• Athens, Greece

• Paris, France

• Rome, Italy

• Greensboro, NC

Where was Alexander the Great from?

• Rome

• Sicily

• Macedonia

• Carthage

What group of Europeans became the leaders of Western culture on the Italian peninsula after the Greeks and Macedonians?

• The Ottoman Turks

• The Romans

• The persians

• The Crusades

The longest period of peace in world history lasted 206 years and is known by this Latin Name

• Pax Romana

• Alexander the Great

• Byzantine Empire

• Hanse

During the Dark Ages in the Mediterranean what Scandinavian maritime civilization raided across much of what is now Northern Europe and possibly the Americas?

• The macedonians

• The Trojans

• The Vikings

• Alexander the great