History Of Western Civ: Midterm 1

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History

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study of past events, especially transpired by or between humans

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Historiography

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written history

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Civilization

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any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification, communication forms, and perceived domination over the environment surroundign

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Neolithic Age

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c.10,200-4000BCE

middle east

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Catalhoyouk

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7500-5700

neolithic proto-city

first civilization of sorts

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cuneiform

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first written language

triangle cone pressings

trade and stock

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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mesopotamia

king of uruk

earliest surviving novel essentially

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Enuma Elish

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babylonian creation myth

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Old Kingdom Egypt

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3rd millenium BCE

Djoser

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Code of Hammurabi

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Babylonian law code

stele

1700BCE

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Sargon

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first leader of Akkadian empire

conquests of sumer

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Akhenaten

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pharaoh

18th dynasty

also called amenhotep IV

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Mycenaeans

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first greeks

influenced minoans

spoke greek

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Trojan War

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Greeks and troy

paris and helen ran away

menelaus and agammemnon won

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Homer

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Iliad and Odyssey

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Plato

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republic

academy of athens

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Hoplites

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spear and shield soldiers

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Sparta

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Athens

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acropolis

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Persian Wars

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persia and greece, series of wars

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Peloponnesian War

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Athens and Sparta

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Alexander the Great

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macedon conquerer most of persia and western world

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Twelve Tables

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first roman code of law

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Punic Wars

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Rome and Carthage

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Gracchan Reforms

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land redistribution in rome

for farmers

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Cicero

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philosopher

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Virgil

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poet

aeneid

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Julius Caesar

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general and councilman

ended roman republic and started roman empire

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Octavian

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first roman emperor

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house churches

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independent of other branches of a religion

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diocletian

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emperor

rose through ranks of society

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the great persecution

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nero persecutes christians, ended by constantine

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constantine

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ended persecution emperor

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arianism

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god being all powerful

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the council of nicea

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converted constantine and made christianity acceptable

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donatism

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sector of christianity in africa

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augustine

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write and saint that set the principles of western christianity

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the goths

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first germanic people to become christians

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theodosius

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roman emperor over both east and western halves

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odoacer

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soldier, first king of italy