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41 Cards in this Set
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Civilization |
When people exert wide control over nature & develop cultural pattern -language, agriculture, morals, commerce |
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Tribes |
group of people bound together by common language/culture traits & inhabit a specific region |
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Animism |
Preliterate people believed in this. - Each moon, star, rock, tree, etc. has its own spirit - If you treat your environment good, it will protect you - Animism : Amulets |
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Lascaux |
A place in France that you can see prehistoric cave paintings from the Paleolithic time. Not original paintings- but very similar |
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Totem |
Sacred/spiritual object that serves as an emblem of a family or clan |
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Paleolithic |
- OLD STONE AGE - Hunter gatherers, nomadic, traveling light |
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Mesolitic |
- MIDDLE STONE AGE - NEXT TO WATER SOURCE, build homes, hunter gatherers, community |
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Neolithic |
- new - build homes - CONTROLS NATURE FOR FOOD |
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Ubaid |
cultural movement during Mesopotamia that incorporates paleolithic ideas - one of the earliest large, excavations |
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Ziggurat |
temple like, solid, earthly structure. - like a step pyramid - had to do w/ priests whom "hold all the knowledge" |
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Communal Theocracy |
- group brings grain/food to priest - would keep records of how much food was brought in - used numerical system to keep track of how much grain |
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Cuneiform |
writing developed first during Mesopotamia - one of the most significant contributions of the Sumerians from the city of Uruk |
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Lugal |
- Sumerian term for rich, powerful man, king - when you owed something to the lugal, you became a slave - lugal = master |
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Sargon of Akkad |
- 1st ruler of Akkadian empire, 1st EMPIRE EVER - Empire of Akkad & Sumer - was a lugal then made his way to being the ruler - log cabin story/thrown into river & abandoned - told ppl to follow him, & he'd set them free of debt - went to next town & freed those slaves - sets Sumer slaves free & took over Sumer - didn't sleep on his efforts to promote prosperity |
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Dynasty of Ur (Uruk) |
- Urnammu is leader - Urnammu claims he's the local God b/c the town is like his name - WRITES FIRST LEGAL SYSTEM IN MESOPOTAMIA |
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Law |
mirror of what happened at a particular time - we have laws because people have done those things to force us to make the laws |
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Hammurabi's Code (Babylon) |
- 8 foot pillar of basalt holding 300 laws by Hammurabi - no higher than 20% interest on laws - needed permit to run business - Hammurabi put a cap on goods & services to stop inflation - cause of inflation was unknown |
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Chaldeans |
used base 60 to come up with mathematical formulas to figure out information about planets & stars |
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Arthur Erans |
-1880s BRONZE AGE
- Found various items on 12 acres of land he bought that came from KNOSSES - 79 gallon jars that held red wine, olive oil, wheat that represents trade/commerce - earrings, columns in a building that took up 6 acres |
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Palatial Period |
Frescoe: paintings (dolphins, bulls) Menitar: bull head with human body, kills people, & kept in a labyrinth |
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Minoans |
- King Minos - Daisy became their symbol - Athleticism - Artistic |
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Linear A |
- Pre 1500 BC - UNDECIPHERABLE - Greek |
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Linear B |
- around 1500 BC - M. Ventris - EARLY FORM OF MYCENAEAN |
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Heinrich Schliemann |
- dad read Illiad to him at night - excavator of Troy and Mycenaean sites - His work lent weight to the idea that Homer and that stuff reflect legit historical events - BRONZE AGE- Aegean civilization |
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Agamemnon |
"greatest king of Mycennae" |
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Trojan War |
- DARK AGES 1100-1700 BC - Dorians were apart of the IRON AGE & took over Mycenaeans & Minoans whom were still in the Bronze Age (weapontry) |
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Mycenaeans & Minoans |
- Small bit of them survived Trojan War (Attica) - settled in Lydia - Ionians taught people of Lydia how to smelter iron |
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Dark Ages of Antiquity |
- 1000-700 BC - Aristotle said Polis was a political entity & center of life |
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Acropolis |
contains remains of several ancient buildings of historical significance |
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Polis |
politics in Greece |
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3 Things States Have |
1. Acropolis 2. Agora- public, open space used for assemblies and markets 3. Asti |
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Sparta |
- mycenaean, minoan, dorian - war like society - 2 kings & 5 ephors - role of wife in sparta was to have warrior babies taken away at 7 yrs old. - mother of warrior could own property, voice opinion, involved in society |
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How a Female should be in Greek Society |
1. quiet 2. beautiful 3. still |
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Zoroaster |
- became religious figure of PERSIA - ZOROASTRIANISM: god of good & god of evil constantly at battle w/ each other |
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1st Persian War |
- leader is Darius who wants to invade Attica - Bay of Marathon is where Darius' ships dock - Athenians vs. Persians - HERODOTUS TELLS US ABOUT 1ST WAR - victory for greece and fail for persia |
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2nd Persian War |
- Darius' son XERXES invades Greece 10 years later - ship goes around edge and troops follow on foot - Mtns. get in their way - Spartans help Athenians fight off Persians - BAY OF SALAMIS BATTLE: Athenians were victorious against Persian fleet |
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Delos |
- sacred island - all islands around Delos are known as the Delian League - all the money & wealth was kept on Delos & controlled by Athens |
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Peloponnesian League |
- defensive scheme for Sparta |
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Parthenon |
- built by Pericles w/ the money he took from Delos - had money left over so lined street with marble - dug canals & filled w/ stone to bring boats in/out |
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Peloponnesian Wars |
- Athens vs. Sparta - goes on for 30 years - Sparta defeats Athens |
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Miletus |
- Ancient Greek City - Lovers of Knowledge - Humanism began here? |
