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16 Cards in this Set
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Socrates
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Greek philosopher who contributed ideas about politics, etc.
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Plato
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Greek philosopher and author of "Republic." Along with Socrates and Aristotle, contributed to political science, etc.
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Aristotle
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Greek philospher, author of "Politics." Contributed to political science along with many other things.
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Herodotus
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Called, "the Father of History", a Greek who traveled throughout the known world to learn about and record the past
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Thucydides
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Greek historian who recorded the wars between Athens and Sparta, and helped in securing the significance of history.
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Pythagoras
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A famous Greek mathematician
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Alexander
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Son of Philip of Macedon (who united the Greek city-states under his rule), known as Alexnder the Great. Conquered as far nto Asia as India
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Jesus
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Man who lived in Palestine, believed by his followers to be the Son of God. Followers would become known as the Christians
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Paul
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Christian leader who helped to spread Christianity and make conversions into the Church
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Augustine
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Author of "City of God". Emphasized that there were two "cities", the earthly and the heavenly, the temporal and the eternal, the city of man (empire) and the city of God
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Indo-European
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Ancestors of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as all European languages with the exceptions of Basque, Finnish, and Hungarian, were Indo-European
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City-state
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The Greeks formed tiny, independent city states which usually consisted of a coastal city and nearby farmland. Examples include Athens, Sparta, Corinth, etc.
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Pax Romana
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The peace which came with the Roman Empire. The empire provided stability, civility, and order
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Roman law
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Held that no custom was necessarily right and that there is a universal law by which fair decisions could be made. This universal, "natural" law would be acceptable to everyone because it arose from human nature and reason
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City of God
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Book by St. Augustine. Wrote when the Roman world was falling into chaos. Significant because it contrasted the city of man (the empire; all that is human and impermanent) and the City of God (an eternal utopia, which the readers could interperet).
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Caesaropapism
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A political system in which one person holds the power of ruler and of pontiff
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