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24 Cards in this Set
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Epic of gilgamesh |
Poem told on 12 tablets, epic hero, sumerian story, 2000 bce |
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Sumer |
Mesopotamia people, first civilization |
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Minoan civilization |
King minos, greece, cleared sea of pirates, dominated Mediterranean, Crete 3000-1100 bce, height of civilization 1550-1400 bce, linear a & b types of writing |
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Homeric epics |
Iliad & odyssey centered around Trojan war. Oral poems preformed as plays. Homer didn't write them down. Moral message- what was important to the Greeks |
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Greek religon |
Zeus- Indo-European Apollo- western Asia minor Aphrodite- Cyprus Athena- Crete |
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Pericles/ golden age of Athens |
Helped build up Athens, was a general known for being very honest, established pay, build up city Pericles- 490-429 bce |
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Peloponnesian war |
431-404 Athens & Sparta- pericles leader Corinth, Corcyra, potidaea Peloponnesia- Sparta survives on there own, strongest army Athens- can't survive on own, strongest navy |
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Alcibiades |
Wants to be in charge really bad, posses Sparta off, reopened the peloponnesian war, gets in trouble for mocking Hermes & runs away to Sparta when needs to stand trial |
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Socrates |
Athens 469 - 399 bce, wrote nothing down Aristotle did, change philosophy into moral philosophy What is justice and what is virtue? Critically thinking of your life Socratic method: is the table blue? Admitting you know nothing is intelligence Not popular |
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Alexander the great |
Wants to take out persua 336-323 Father was Philip 2 Macedonia 359-336 Beat Athens except Sparta Helenising world Invaded presia, Egypt Dies at 32 |
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Hellenisitic age |
323-30 bce Making things Greek & moving east Takes ideas from everywhere Astronomy & math |
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Archimedes |
287-212 bce Calculating pi Base 10 Ratio between cylinder to circle |
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Etruscans |
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Patricians & plebians |
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Punic wars |
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The gracchi |
2 brothers grandsons of Scipio Plebians |
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First triumvirate |
Cesar, pompey , crassur |
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Gaius Julius Caesar |
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Cleopatra |
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Mark antony |
Rising political figure |
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5 good empirers |
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Nero |
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Marcus aurelius |
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Deurious / 3 things Rome needs to be good |
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