Test 4

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Asclepius

Back 1

Old Greek God of Medical Healing

After fall of (and during) Rome, more people started following him

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Psychosomatic Cures

Back 2

sickness of the mind that causes physical sickness

Front 3

Original Sin

Back 3

mainstay of all religions

Christianity - Adam and Eve eating the apple

Front 4

Holy Eucharist

Back 4

=Communion

Front 5

Why did Christianity not fail when so many others have?

Back 5

1. Christianity is cheap, "sacrificing" done by baptizing

2. Christianity appealed to both men and women.

3. Highly Organized (modeled after Roman Empire)

4. Stressed that God loves you while others stressed that you must love God

5. Taught that all men are brothers (equals)

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Reasons Christians were persecuted?

Back 6

1. Charged w/atheism (didn't follow state religion.

2. Some Christians wouldn't join army or pay taxes.

3. They held secret meetings and there were rumors that they ate the dead.

Front 7

Why did Christians not mind being persecuted?

Back 7

They thought that all people who died for their religion would go to heaven because they were MARTYRS

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Commodus

Back 8

Marcus Aerelius' son

eventually killed by wife, because she found her name on his death list

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Diocletian

Back 9

One of the last emporers, stopped the downward slide of the Roman Empire

Declared himself a God (not just his Genuis) so he wouldn't be killed

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Edict of Prices

Back 10

Passed by Diocletian

People had started to not take Roman money because it wasn't worth anything any more

So he forced them to take money for certain (basically all) goods/services

Didn't work for trade, but did stabalize a little

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Constantine

Back 11

Made Christianity legal in Rome

Many historians consider this the fall of the Roman Empire

Front 12

Zinjanthropus

Back 12

First man

found in Africa

Front 13

Neanderthal

Back 13

First big man

Skilled flint worker who had fire

Front 14

Cro Magnon

Back 14

The last of the cavemen

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Toynbee

Back 15

wrote the challenge response theory

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Challenge Response Theory

Back 16

When glaciers left they had 4 options:

1. Die
2. Follow animals to Africa
3. Desert Nomads
4. Settle around rivers

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Fluvial

Back 17

River Centered

Front 18

Hammurabi

Back 18

wrote down the Sumerian Laws

Front 19

theocratic government

Back 19

The leader of the church was also the leader of the gov't

Egyptians

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Ikhnaton

Back 20

Egyptian pharoah who said there is only one God

didn't last very long

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Samuel

Back 21

prophet who picked saul

Then saul started "listening to God" on his own so Samuel said that he would lose his next battle...1/2 his army didn't show up so Saul did lose his battle

Then Samuel picked David

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Solomon

Back 22

David's son

Bankrupt the kingdom

reason that Jews split up into Israel and Judah

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Zeus

Back 23

Big God

Lightning bolts

Married to Hera

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Hera

Back 24

Married to Zeus

Very jealous of all his affairs

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Athene

Back 25

Goddess of Military ability and wisdom

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Apollo

Back 26

gave oracles at Oracle of Delphi

Front 27

Hermes

Back 27

God of Speed

had the wings on his feed

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Hephaestus

Back 28

Built cool things (Zeus' lightning bolts etc.)

Married to Aphrodite

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Aphrodite

Back 29

Goddess of sexual love

Married to Hephaestus

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Prometheus

Back 30

Titan who didn't join other titans against Gods

was allowed to live in heaven

screwed everything up for Gods (gave man secrets, etc.)

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Oligarchy

Back 31

Means ruled by the rich and educated

practiced by Corinth

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Democracy

Back 32

Means ruled by many

Practiced by Athens

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ostracism

Back 33

Athenian custom of kicking someone out of the city for 10 years

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Liturgy System

Back 34

the custom of Atenians rich people giving money to the gov't usually to build buildings

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Empiricism

Back 35

Based on empirical evidence: what you can sense (using 5 senses)

Front 36

Thales

Back 36

first philosopher

created island to build bridge

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Xenophanes

Back 37

philosopher

said we don't know anything about the Gods because we can't use empirical senses to tell about them

Front 38

Sophists

Back 38

wise men who taught wisdom

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anaxagoras

Back 39

philosopher

astronomer

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Democratus

Back 40

philosopher

discovered molecular theory

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protagoras

Back 41

wrote "Truth"

Said "man is measure of all things

first 'relativist'

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Relativist

Back 42

everything is relative to time, place, circumstances, etc.

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Aeschylus

Back 43

said that you have to accept gods dumping on you because they're gods and obviously know what they are doing

wrote famous play (see syllabus)

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Sophocles

Back 44

Big philosopher

Wrote Oedipus Rex

Wrote Antigone

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Euripides

Back 45

wrote Medea

story of Jason who married Medea for the Golden Fleece, then divorced her to become king...showed that Jason was an ass

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Pericles

Back 46

Leader of Athens after persian Wars

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Delian League

Back 47

league of nations started by Athens

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Parthenon

Back 48

built in Athens as a temple to Athene

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3 basic column styles

Back 49

Doric - plain, simple, fat with a block at the top

Ionic - base at the bottom and were thinner with scroll capitals

Corinthian - base and a flashy top

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Causes of Peloponnesian War

Back 50

1. Corcyra
2. Potidaea - corinthian colony...Athens told them to not allow Corinthian to run them
3. Megarian Decrees - Athens closed off trade routes to Megerea
4. Plataea

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Hellenic

Back 51

the time when greeks ran their own affairs

Front 52

Hellenistic

Back 52

the time when other people ran the Greeks affairs

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Epicurus

Back 53

He said don't fear death

Front 54

Zeno

Back 54

founded the Stoic School

said prepare for disaster since you can't do anything about it

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Etruscans

Back 55

Early Romans