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44 Cards in this Set
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What year did civilization begin in Mesopotamia?
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3000 BC
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Where was the first evidence of civilization?
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Ur,Babylon
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What two rivers was the first civilization between?
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Tigris and Euphrates
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What is the oldest single volume in history found?
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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What year was the Epic of Gilgamesh dated?
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3320 BC
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Who wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh?
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Shin-equinninni
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What was the epic of gilgamesh written on?
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cuneiform tablets
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What was the first written set of laws?
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Code of Hammurabi
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Who is Hammurabi?
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King of Babylon
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What is the basis of democracy?
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Social Contract Theory
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What is how you turn anarchy into a civilized society by getting people to agree to a set of rules?
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Social Contract Theory
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When was the Golden Age of Athens?
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5th Century BC
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What was Athens known for?
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to be the Cradle of Democracy
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How was Athens ruled in Greece?
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democracy-people voted only men
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What were the Greek's religious beliefs?
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Polytheistic
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Who were the first two Greek historians?
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Herodotus and Thyncididies
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Which GREEK historian wrote about the Persian Wars?
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Herodotus
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Which GREEK historian wrote about the Polyponnesian Wars?
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Thyncididies
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Who was a popular philosopher in Ancient Greece?
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Socrates
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What is the Socratic method?
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The professor would ask questions, but would make the students go find out the answers.
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What kind of literature was famous in Ancient Greece?
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Greek Tragedies
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When was the Golden Age?
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Between the Persian and Polyponesian Wars
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What two battles were in the Persian war?
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Salamis Bay and Marathon
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What years did the Persian War rage on?
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499-479
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What is the civil war between Sparta and Athens?
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Peloponnesian War
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Who would win the Peloponnesian war?
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Spartans won
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Who ostracized?
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Greeks would pick a person who was vulgar and corrupt would be sent away for 10 years. This instilled fear and purified the society.
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Who taught Plato?
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Socrates
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Who taught Aristotle?
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Plato
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What was the cored of Western Education?
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math and science
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What eventually happened to Socrates?
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He was convicted of corruption for influencing youth, and his penalty was going to be death, but he refused to leave, so he drank hemlock and died.
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What was Plato's basic belief?
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That there was a human understanding, but there are different levels of understanding
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What is Plato's idea?
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idealism
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What belief was that ideas that matter and who's idea was this?
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idealism-plato
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What was the first university and who started it?
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the academy-plato
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What did Plato write?
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The Republic
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Who disagreed with Plato's idealism, and why?
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Aristotle- he thought that Realism was more important
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What was Aristotle's school?
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Lyceum
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At Usi, what division of knowledge would be considered
idealistic and realistic? |
Idealistic-LA
Realistic-Science Center |
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When was Lysistrata first produced?
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411 BC
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What were the two focuses in greek drama?
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-weaknesses of actual human beings
-relationships between men and women |
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Who was the first actor?
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Thespis
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What is the chorus?
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When 5 or 6 men talk at the same time?
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What year was Rome grandest?
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120 AD
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