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35 Cards in this Set
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Two views of creation
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Genesis - man is good
Atra-Hasis - man is a burden or a necessity |
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Neolithic Age
dates? major characteristic? |
10,000 - 3,000 BC
domestication of animals and crops |
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Bronze Age
dates? major characteristic? |
3,000 - 1,500 BC
new technologies and birth of civilization |
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royal absolutism
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pharoh in Egypt
Menes in 3000 BC huge resources |
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city-states
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Mesopotamia
treaties but still fight Sargon of Akkad ~2300 BC |
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Paleolithic Age
dates? major characteristic? |
600,00 - 10,000 BC
emergence of stone and bone technology and cave paintings |
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Hammurabi's code
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1800 BC
birth of law law should be swift and help the weak Mesopotamia |
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social classes in Bronze Age
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those who pray, rule, and work
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architecture in Bronze Age
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largely in cities
pyramids of Zoser Khufu in 2600 BC |
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cuneiform
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Bronze Age
Mesopotamia symbolic language found on clay tablets |
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hieroglyphics
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Bronze Age
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Schism
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Judah -> Jerusalem
597/586 BC Israel -> Samaria 722 BC becomes 12 lost tribes |
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Early Greece / Heroic
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3000 - 1200/1100 BC
time of heros and beginning of writings |
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Dark Ages
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Greece / Mediterrean
1200/1100 - 900/730 BC ~70% of people die, reorganize priorities |
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Archaic Age
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900/730 - 500 BC
growth of Athens and Sparta |
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Classical Age
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500 - 350 BC
after Persian War feel way of life is justified at end Sparta and Athens destroyed |
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Minoans
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Knossos, Crete
Heroic Period 2100 - 1600 BC traders, peaceful writing called Linear A matriarchal |
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Myceneans
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Mycenae
Heroic Period 1600 - 1200/1100 BC militaristic, war-like, patriarchal writing called Linear B |
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reasons for Dark Ages (4)
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Trojan War - Homer
Dorian Invasion - Greeks Natural causes combination of factors |
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Sparta
government? economics? cultural policy? diplomatic policy? |
absolute / oligarchy
communist closed isolationist |
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Athens
government? economics? cultural policy? diplomatic policy? |
democracy
capitalist open imperialism |
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branches of Sparta government
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kings
Gerousia - senate Assembly - common people over 30 emphors - watchdogs |
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branches of Athenian government
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archon
king, general, head archon, and others areopagus council - courts Ekelesia - all men over 28 |
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Cyclon
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632 BC
Athens winner of Olympics who overthrew gov. and then was killed |
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Draco
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620 BC
strong body of laws |
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Solon
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594/574 BC
Athens head archon who made reforms based on responsibility |
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Peisistratus
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546 - 527 BC
constitutional tyrannt populus who redistributes land, expands culture, introduces coinage, and promotes imperialism. |
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Cleisthenes
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rules from 507 - 501 BC
exiled aristocrat destroys old tribal ties and creates 10 "districts" |
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Perikles
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lived from 495 - 429 BC
liberal democrat who gave more political freedom to the people. |
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Thales of Miletus
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640 - 540 BC
Asia Minor coast philosopher, everything from water |
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Pythagoras
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510 - 460 BC
Samos, settles in southern Italy deductive, numbers control everything |
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Herakleitus
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525 - 500 BC
Ephesus everything in flux |
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Parmenides
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~ 500 BC
southern Italy distinction between being and non-being |
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Sappho
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~ 600 BC
Lesbos lyric poet who wrote about friendship of women, love and some nature |
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Pindar
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518 - 442 BC
lyric poet who wrote about the emotions experienced during battle and sports |
