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24 Cards in this Set
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Historian
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studies texts and people
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Classicist (Classics)
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Studies the history through literary works
-Normally make linguist arguments and specialize in literature rather than in historical "facts" |
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Archaeologist
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Studies the material culture
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Material Evidence
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The stuff you pull out of the ground
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Art Historian
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Studies the material culture that is art (includes paintings, sculptures, pottery, ceramics) and how to read it.
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Social Historian
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Looks at how the people lived including but not limited to: gender, sexuality, sports, leisure, religion, economy and military
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Political Historian
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focuses on politics and the effect it has on a culture
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Epigrapher
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Reads inscriptions, primarily on stone
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Prosopographer
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Studies ancient politics by studying ancestry
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Papyrologist
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Puts together and reads texts written on papyrus.
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Numismatist
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Studies coins
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Historiography
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The history of history.
-How do we know what we know? How has the information been passed down, changed hands, etc. |
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Historicity
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Living at a particular time and place with a particular family, language, religion, and such will affect how one sees the world.
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Primary Source:
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Something that was written at the time, or close.
-More flexible with ancient Greece; Plutarch was Roman and from hundreds of years after Greece -EVERY kind of surviving texts |
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Secondary Source
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The works that come after the primary sources and often use them as evidence.
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Agora
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Market
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Acropolis
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high-city
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ANE
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Ancient Near East
-Modern day Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and into Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan |
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Polis (poleis)
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City-state
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Hdt
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Herodotus
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Agonia
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contest, challenge
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Wanax
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kings that acted more like dukes to a colony
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Basileus
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lesser king, title appeared in Dark Ages
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Dark Ages time span
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1,100 - 750 BCE
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