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Greek difficulties under a single governement |
W/ ever growing population and people struggling for power and wealth, written history was lost and classes were heavily divided |
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Cause of Athen's gradual move towards democracy |
Instead of one person having all the power, they believed that everyone should have their own fair amount. Generations and rulers help spread and create democracy.
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Who and why of the Pelponnesian War |
Athens vs Sparta. Wealth, prestige, and power.
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Importance of Alexander the Great as a student of Aristotle |
Aristotle-student of Plato, questioned belief and human nature. Alexander learned science, geography, and literature through his teacher which made him such a great ruler
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Cause of Athens' golden age and end of democracy |
Athens was glorified; architecture, sculpture-classical art, tragedy/comedy, and philosphers
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Major power struggles in the Early Roman republic |
Power in the hands of citizens-citizenship was only granted to free-born male citizens |
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Explain Rome's code of laws known as the Twelve Tables |
Courts and trials, trials, debt, right of fathers (men over women and etc), guardianship, possession, land rights, laws of injury, public law, sacred law, supplements |
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Explain how the government of the Romans after they drove out the Etruscans can be defined as a republic |
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Why did Roman rulers oppose Christanity |
They didn't want God to be the ruler, they wanted to be the ruler. Soon they led their people through Christianity and gave themselves more power |
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Result of 207 years of Pax Romana |
"Roman Peace." 3 mill sq miles, 60-80 mill population, and Rome homed about 1 million.
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Evaulate the causes and decline of the Roman Empire |
Inflation-drop of money, prices rise. Wars and unrest, disloyality, rich/poor contrast, disease, food shortage, trade disruption, ETC |
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What were the reasons that Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire |
Spreading of Jesus' ideas didn't contradict anyone else at that time. Love for God, themselves, neighbors, and etc
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Evaulate the attraction of Buddist beliefs |
EightFold path teaches that human desire causes suffering and how they must overcome it |
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Evalute China's monopoly on silk production |
Created Silk Roads, it was huge and expensive. They were really secretive about their silk and how to make it |
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India modern contribtuion to civilization |
Writings, religion, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Trade was huge too. Buddhism and Hinduism was spread through trade as well
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What are push-pull factors |
Factors push people out of areas and draw them to another for whatever reasons. Climate, slavery, war --> <--land, employment, freedom |
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How and why do historians trace patterns of migration |
To see where cultures originally came from and how they were influenced/influenced others |
