Humanities Greece Humanism And The Speculative Leap Test One

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Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean Sea

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Greek Civilization

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Seafaring culture who lived with a sense of security (absence of walls around palace)

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Minoan Civilization

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Where was the minoan civilization located

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Centered on the Palace of Minos, at Knossos on the island of Crete

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Which civilization was seafaring?

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minoan's

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the most famous frescoes in the palace at knossos

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bull leaping fresco

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Half man, half bull born of the union of Minos’ queen and a sacred white bull

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Minotaur

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may represent fertility goddess or cult like goddess

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Snake goddess

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The Athenian hero Theseus makes his way through the Minotaur’s maze to kill the monster, thus freeing Athens from its bondage to the Minoans.

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legend of minotaur

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Characteristics of the Mycenaean Civilization

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Militant and aggressive unlike Minoans

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constructed massive citadels that later generations thought were constructed by the Cyclops.

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Mycenaeans

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Around 1200 BCE, the Mycenaeans attacked-----------, a strong hold in the NW corner of Asia Minor

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troy

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The 10 year war between the mycenaeans and troy would provide the historical context for which 2 great epic poems

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Iliad and Odyssey

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Mycenaean civilization was destroyed by the

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Dorians

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What blind poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey

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Homer

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Aphrodite

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love and beauty

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Apollo

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sunlight, music

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Dionysus

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wine, vegetation

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Zeus

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king of gods, sky

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Hera

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queen of gods

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Heracles

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strength, courage

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nike

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victory

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Demeter

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Agriculture, vegetation

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Persephone

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Underworld

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After the Flood Ducalion and his wife repopulate the earth by throwing rocks over their shoulders

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Deucalion myth

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-Explanation of worldly seasons

-When things do not grow, Demeter sadly misses her daughter

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Demeter/Persephone myth

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Geographic conditions encouraged the growth of the

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Greek city states

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Greek city states were

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self governing provinces

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Cause of the persian war

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Initiated when Persia annexed the cities of Ionia

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ionians battle with persians

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battle of marathon

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•Armed dispute b/w rival city-states led by Athens and Sparta.

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Peloponnesian Wars

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Which war was between the athenian empire and sparta

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Peloponnesian Wars

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•Half century from 480 and 430 often called the most creative period in world history.

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Golden age

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Dramatic actions during the golden age assumed 2 principle forms

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comedy and tragedy

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The greatest tragedy ever written’

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Oedipus the King

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Tragedy occurs through actions that arouse sentiments of ----------in the audience

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pity and fear

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the object of study rather than worship

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nature

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Argued for natural explanations of the unknown

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greek philosopy

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Sought unifying substance of reality

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Naturalist Philosophers

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Father of Philosophy

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Thales

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Atomic Theory

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Leucuppus

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Change is the only constant

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Heraclitus

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Reality based in numerical order

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Pythagoras

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Shift the focus of philosophy from the study of the universe to the study of man

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Sophists

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Opposed the skeptical views of sophistry

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socrates

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Opposed the skeptical views of sophistry.

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Socrates

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socrates principle of inquiry

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know thy self

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How was socrates executed?

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Trial by death

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What were socrates circumstances of death

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subversive behavior, impiety, atheism,

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Socrates’ student; born in Athens during P. war

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Plato

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Founded the first school of philosophy, The Academy

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Plato

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proposes that all sensory objects are limitations of the forms (eternal truths), which, like the simplest mathematical equations are imperishable and forever true.

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Theory of forms

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illustrates some key theories in the teachings of plato such as idealism

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allegor of the cave

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Student of Plato

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aristotel

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Rejected Plato’s theory of Forms.

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aristotle

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Aristotle hypothesizes that happiness or -------- is teh only human value that might be considered a final goal

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the good life

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a method of inquiry dependent on direct experience or observation

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empirical method

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the middle ground between any two extremes of behavior

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the gold mean