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42 Cards in this Set
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4 Tributatires of Western Tradition
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Christianity
Greek Roman Judaism |
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Three Main Cities
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Athens
Rome Jerusalem |
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Ethical Monotheism
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One God
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Bible
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little books
Byblos Three Groupings: Law, Prophets, Writings |
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Covenant
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Sacred Promise
"I will be your Gd; you will be my people" |
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Guilt Culture
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Caring what other people think of you, what God thinks about you
Remind people to do what they're supposed to |
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Cave painting
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Depict animals and hunting (vital part of survival)
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Hammurabi
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Mesopotamia's most famous King, author of a law code that attempted to achieve social justice by legislation, laws carved on steel
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Law Code of Hammurabi
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deal with relationship between husbands, wives, and other family members
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Aegean Culture
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disappeared in 1100 BC
cycladic art (idols)C |
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Cyclades
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settlements on a group of islands of central Aegean
pre-Cretian fertility goddesses eventually sailed to Greece |
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Cycladic Idols
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religious function at funerals, cult of mother goddesses( mostly female statues found), arm folded, head tilted back, simplicity
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Minoan Culture
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under King Minos
Increase in growth, small towns Became first major devlopment, urban centers Architecture Liveliness in color in pottery and jewelryj Men leaders but religion associate with women |
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Knossos
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properous and thriving community ruled by a powerful and ruthless king Minos
Urban center, main palaces (private houses surrounded) |
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King Minos
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legendary king of Knossos who was put in Labyrinth and conquered the Minotaur
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Minotaur
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A monstrous creature that was half man and half bull--a product of of the union of Minos's wife Pasiphae with a bull
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Ariadne
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King's daughter who fell in love with Theseus, ran away with him
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Schliemann
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Proved that stories of war against Troy and Mycenaeans were true
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Characteristics of Mycenaean culture
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Made war on Troy, palace complexes, mysterious fall in 1200 BC, art preoccupied with death and war
death masks |
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Agamemnon
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Leader of of the Mycenaean expedition against Troy
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Polis
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Greek word for "city" used to designate the Greek self-governing city-state
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Heroic Age
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Development of Iron Age culture
Greeks begin colonizing in East Italy First Olympic Games Evolution of Homeric epics Hesiod geometric art |
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Heroic Code
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Arete = excellence in something
Speaker of words, doer of deeds Well rounded Hero measured by prowess in battle and number of possessions |
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Demeter
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goddess of fertility
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Artemis
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goddess of chastity and the moon, the hunt
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"Homeric question"
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was he a man or woman? blind poet? did he doe it?
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Greek Music
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believed music strongly influenced behavior
Important religiously, emotionally and spiritually powerful |
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Ethos
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moral character
That which distinguishes art and vies it character, or moral and ethical character in music |
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Modes
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Scales that formed basis of Greek Music
Major and minor Arrangement of notes in scale |
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Harmony
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Used by Greeks to describe certain musical scales
Relationship between notes and chords |
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Pythagoras
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presocratic philosopher who had greatest influence
Upheld morals and chastity, order and harmony, murdered Mathematics Numerical relationship of musical harmonies (octave) |
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Orientalizing
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early pottery decoration, popular at Corinth, using motifs from Eastern art
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Presocratics
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Greek philosphers before the time of Socrates
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Solon
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legislator and poet, reformed legal system (four classes)
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Sappho
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lyric poet, first woman to leave a literary record that reflects personal experience
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Kouros
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Nude standing male figure, common in Archaic sculpture
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Kore
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Draped standing female figure, common in Archaic sculpture
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Archaic smile
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grimace on sculptures faces
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Battle of Marathon
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Greeks don't like Persians, Persians attack Greece, Athenians afraid to die, Go and fight, kick their trash, Athens become leaders of Greeks
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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Herodotus
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first Greek Historian, nine books of Persian Wars
Great storyteller |
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Greek world view
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Realistic, city state leadership, democracy, anybody who has land can participate in politics, belief in gods but not driving figures, orders of architecture
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