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Aegean Greece
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Evolved, Peaceful Minoans - Island of Crete
King Minos Unfortified cities and palace complexes Such as the palace of Knossos Disappear |
Crete
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Dark Ages
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Subsistence living
only culture is the retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
Subsistence
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Classical Greece
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Golden Classical Age - art soars
Pericles founds delian league - military defense fund - Pericles accused of stealing from MDF Fund to beautify athens when he builds the parthenon causes disunity, which leads to civil war athens vs. sparta - sparta wins - death of culture, unity |
golden classical age
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Hellenistic Age
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Multi-cultural, multiracial and cosmopolitan
art is filled with drama and virtuosity |
melting pot
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Neolithic
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new stone age
farms and territories |
volcano
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Paleolithic
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old stone age
hunters and gatherers totemistic |
venus of willendorf
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Archaic Age
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Greek culture is re-established
doric temples democracy kouros and kore pre-socratic philosophers say "man is the measure of all things" Victory in the persian wars - only time that greece is unified |
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Late classical
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socrates is questioning all things in all areas - he is consigned to death - accepts fate saying, "no man is above the law"
his students are plato and aristotle phillip of macedonia will reunify greece his son is Alexander the great, and he builds a great empire upon his death the empire is split into 3 territories |
socrates
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Mesopotamia
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the cradle of civilization that is the land between the two unnavigable and unpredictable tigris and euphrates rivers giving rise to warring city states even today. major tribes are the sumerians and semetic tribes
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rivers
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Akkadians
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warlike
King Sargon conquered by the Babylonians |
sAbap
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Assyrians
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Warlike
relief carvings conquered by the persians |
sabAp
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Egypt
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has 3,000 years of unity due to the predictable nile river
they have pharoahs that are "gods on earth" they establish the first monotheism they believe in the afterlife they use heiroglyphics to write |
Pyramids
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Mycennean
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warlike
fortified cities gold artifacts and weapons Trojan war disappear |
Trojan War
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Sumerian / Semetic Tribes
2 major tribes of mesopotamia |
Evolved sumerian king is King Gilgamesh of The epic of Gilgamesh
they use cuniform writings they are conquored by the Akkadians |
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Babylonians
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King Hammurabbi with his law code of retaliation
they are conquered by the warlike assyrians |
saBap
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Persians
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Indo-European
famous prophet is Zoroaster Eastern method of contemplation or meditation |
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Etruscans
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evolved
engineers ruled the Latin Romans Romans rebel and establish the democratic Roman Republic |
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Unrest-Civil Wars
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Pompey vs Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar reforms the Law Code Senate members Murder Julius Caesar Brutus delivers the Killing Blow "Et Tu Brute" Marc Antony and Octavius avenge julius caesar's death, but split over antony's association with cleaopatra octavius wins... reforms the roman military and beauracracy, wins over the people and establishes the Roman Empire |
Et Tu Brute
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Fall of the Roman Empire
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Empire is too large and unwieldy
Reasons for collapse: high taxes and inflation, lack of loyalty of foreigners in provinces, moving capitol to constantinople, growing power of the army, corruption, Christianity the empire is split into east and west the western empire falls the eastern empire is assimilated by Christian Barbarian Goths and becomes the Byzantine Empire |
bar bar bar goths
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Jews
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Semetic tribe from mesopotamia, that Abraham leads to Canaan
Many Jews go to Egypt because of Joseph the sympathetic hyksos semetic ruler lasts for 100 years egyptians reconquer egypt in egypt moses receives the covenenat from god, the 10 commandments at mount sinai Moses leads the jews out of egypt on the exodus back to canaan (israel) where they establish a monarchy with 3 jewish patriarchs : David, Saul, and Solomon the Jews are conquered 3 times and are dispersed until 1948 when britian gives israel back to the jews the Jew's holy book is the Old Testament which contains the LAWS, WRITING, and PROPHECY They believe in the coming of the messiah (even today) |
Abraham
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Islam
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Muslims
the Prophet Mohammed received the last word of revelation from Allah in the form of the Koran which is based on the 5 pillars of wisdom: Alms to the poor, Pray 5 times a day facing Mecca, Fast during the month of Rammadan (only during the day),Monotheism, make a pilgramige to Mecca once in a lifetime The only art allowed is calligraphy from the Koran |
5 pillars
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Roman Republic (500 Years)
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lasts for 500 years
government consists of the Senate with Patricians and the Assembly with Plebians they give bread and circuses to the people they build the forum and roads they copy everything greek the Punic and Galic wars increase thier territory Corruption and insensitivity cause civil wars |
PG plebs
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Roman Empire (500 Years)
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lasts for 500 years
Octavius names himself Augustus Caesar and ushers in the Pax Romana (roman Peace) and the Golden Age Augustus starts a propoganda building program Rome continues to expand they have many emperors-some good, some bad Hadrian is a good one and ushers in the second golden age and builds the pantheon and colliseum Rome has a common language |
hadrian and augustus
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Byzantine Empire
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Golden Age
Justinian and Theodora Justinian reforms the law code He also builds Hagia Sophia and St. Catherines Monestary in Egypt where there are exquisite mosaics Justinian burns the Great Library in Alexandria |
Justinian is an asshole
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Christianity
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Jesus was a jewish reformer, who claims to be the son of god
the holy book is the bible where Jesus teaches in Parables Like the Sermon on the Mount there are 5 tenants of Christianity (feels) Forgiveness, eternal life, equality, love, salvation Jesus is crucified, ressurected and martyred A peaceful rome allows the spread of christianity Paul (Saul of Tarsus) is the first Missionary |
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