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How did Europe come into being?
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Waves of migration by tribes pushed westward
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What are the elements from which the civilization of the High Middle Ages was constructed
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1) love of freedom by barbarians
2) civil order being established by agreements b/n a set of magnates who controlled their tenants (feudalism) 3) Religion, namely, Christianity |
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What divided the realm of Charlemagne into three parts (France, Germany, 3rd kingdom)
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Treaty of Verdun in 843
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What are the essential categories of political study
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1) reality
2) illusion |
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What were philosophies responses to despotism of the Greeks and Romans
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Stoicism and Christianity
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What are instances of despotism infringing through military conquest in Europe
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1) City states of Ancient Greece (Alex the Great)
2) Roman Empire 3) Christianity/Barbarian Kingdoms |
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Why did Greeks disdain despotism
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No differentiation b/n rel'n amongst slaves and masters
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Who was the caliph of Baghdad who kidnapped Scheherazade
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Harun Al Raschid
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Who did the Isrealites ask for a king to judge them and lead
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The prophet Samuel in 11th century
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What signs can indicate the politics beneath the surface level
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1) distinction b/n private and public life
2) Political rhetoric |
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How is western politics distinguished from other forms of social order
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Resolving of conflict through free discussion not simply knowing one's own place
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On what did Rome's fame largely rest
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Moral strength, bribary as a capital offense, for example
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What was the greatest disaster in the hx of the Roman senate
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The defeat of Cannae by Hannibal the Carthaginian in 218 BC
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How did Polybius explain Rome's success
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1/3 monarchical, aristicratical, and democratic
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What was the most distinctie contribution of Romans to politics
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auctoritas: junction of politics with Roman religion
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What two words did Romans use to distinguish "power"
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1) potentia (physical)
2) potestas (legal right) |
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When was Rome ruled by kings
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753 BC (Romulus) to 509 BC (Tarquin the Proud expelled by Junius Brutus for rape of Lucretia)
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From where does the political vocabulary of western civ derivate
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1) political vocabulary of the greeks (policy and politics)
2) civic vocabulary of Romans (civility, citizen, civilization) |
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How does persuision differ from command
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assumes equality b/n speaker and listener
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What is the only appropriate rel'n b/n rational beings
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persuasion
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Although greeks may have been tyrants or usurpers, what were they not
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Despots
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Why was citizenship conferred only to men
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differing degrees of perceived innate rationality
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Who are the factions in the IIIrd book of Thucidides Pelopennesion War
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Cleon (realism)
Diodotus (rationalism) |
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What was the Oikos, besides the basis for economics
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system of orderly subordination: male to female, parent to child, master to slave
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What false premise did the greeks base their politics
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everyting in the world was the result of deliberate design
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What semi-divinities founded Sparta and Athens
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Lycurgus and Theseus
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What is the most famous case of someone restoring a politcal design
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Solon at Athens in the 6th century BC
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What two features of Solon's reforms illustrate essential features of greek politics
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1) basing politics on territorial units that mixed up clans or tribal loyalties
2) left athens for 10 yrs so constitution could be operated by others (Separation of power) |
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Strictly speaking, what is the key to politics
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a nexus of abstract offices to which duties are attached
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Despotism depends on _____; politics, on________
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Personality and positions
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What is the set of offices by which a polis is governed and the laws specifying their relation
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The constitution
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how do constitutions work
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1) circumscribe the power of the office holders
2) create predictable world in which citizens conduct their lives |
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what has led to the emergence of political science
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constitutions giving form to politics
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what was the main division during the classical period of greek politics
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b/n oligarchal states (favoring the rich/powerful) and democracies (responding to the interests of the poor)
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what was the most powerful tool used in greek poly sci
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theory of recurrent cycles
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what was polybius' theory of PS
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M d T o A d O o D d M
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who said knowledge is power
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Francis Bacon
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What is the theory of the balanced constitution
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1) gov't has several fx that can be parceled out amongst offices/assemblies
2) this distribution may balance the interests of rich and poor |
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what was the equipose of the english constitution
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monarch, commons, lords
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what did aristotle believe was the mech of political change
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revolutions
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what is the political ideal "left behind" by the greeks
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the account of athens put in the mouth of pericles by thucidides
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