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28 Cards in this Set
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Fertile Crescent |
2 Parts; Levant (east) + Mesopotamia 2 Rivers; Tigris and Europhobes |
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City-State |
An urban center excessing control of the surrounding countryside. |
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Empire |
A political state in which a single power rules formally independent people
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Alphabet |
Invented by Canaanites (Levent Side) needed a way to trade with people of other languages
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Maat |
Order, Justice, Harmony, Stability
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Wisdom Literature |
Favorite kind of Egyptian Literature; tells you how to live a happy life
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Redistributive Economy |
Economy in which the government controls and redistributes all crops and goods
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Cyrus the Great |
Persian King; combined military strength with religious tolerance.
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Torah |
Jewish Bible |
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Babylonian Exile of the Jews |
Forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah, exile ended when Cyrus the Great gave Jews permission to return to Palestine. |
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Olympics |
Every 4 Years at a shrine dedicated to zeus; especially focused on military skills. |
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Polis |
City |
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Greek Tyranny |
One family in control, not necessarily ruthless |
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Cosmos |
Idea that world is an orderly system that can be understood and if you can understand it you can control it |
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Hellenic League |
31 City-States with Sparta in Control |
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Delian League |
City-States led by Athens |
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Pericles |
Athenian Leader; "Radical Democracy", develops in Athens. Makes many new changes, Judging Cases; changed to a random panel of jurors, lottery system, term limits, corruption was publicly investigated, law applies to everyone no matter class |
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Ostracism
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Once a year the assembly got together and could vote 1 person out of Athens. |
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Sophists |
Tutors of rhetoric; would teach how to persuade, even lies. |
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Greek Tragedy |
Gods and Humans interacting; Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides |
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Greek Comedy |
Critical commentary on Politics |
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Platonic Forms |
Non material parts of the world possess the highest and most fundamental kinds of reality and pureness. |
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Platonic Dualism |
Matter limits the possibly of perfection |
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Koine
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Common regional form of Greek spoken and written. Developed through the spread of Alexander the Greats conquests |
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Epicuranism
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System of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus. |
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Stoicism |
Greek school that taught virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge, and that the wise live with divine reason |
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Isis
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daughter of Geb and Nut, instrumental in the resurrection of brother Osiris when he was murdered by Set |
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Maccabean Revolt |
Conflict between a Judean rebel group known as the Maccabees and the Seleucid Empire. |
