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where the athenian popular assembly, the Ecclesia met.

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Agora

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criticized by his contemporaries and historians alike for his allowing his subjects in Egypt and Persia to worship him as a god

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Alexander the Great

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is used in plato's dialogue with Glaucon to explain various stages of intellect

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Analogy of the cave

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dated Romes fall at 1453 AD

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Andre Pirenne

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six Thesmothetai who made laws.

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archons

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asserted that Jesus was not divine

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Arianism

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ruled by the wealthy

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Aristocracy

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horses( the hippies0, a yoke of oxen(the zeugitai), or 500 bushels of grain(the pentacosiomedimnoi)

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Athenia citizenship

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the plain, rich landholding farmers

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Athenian political parties

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citizens represented about 10% of the total population

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Athens

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400 man legislature created by Solon

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Boule'

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were rarely persecuted

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Christians

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"Virtue links man with god"

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Cicero

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it protrayed all things not as they are but rather as they should be

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Classicism

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Athenian tyrant/political reformer
council of 500

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Cleisthenes

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were two in number and were the top offical in the early Republic

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Consuls

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Justinian in 527 BC

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Corpus Iurus Civilis

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quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul

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Curus honorum

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advocated a natural, self-suffcient life.

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Cynics

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created by the tetrarchy

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Diocletian(284-305 AD)

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issused by the Roman empire Galerius

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Edict of Toleration

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politics which wise men should advoid

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Epicureans

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emigrated from Lydia

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Etruscans

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did not separate the executive, legislative and judicial functions

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Evolution of Athenia democracy

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Leonidas and his 300 spartans who died at thermopolyae

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Famous Spartans

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it is easily invaded by sea

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Geography of Rome

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tried to break up the large plantations or latifundia

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Gracchi(Tiberius and Caius)

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polytheistic
encouraged the public worship of heros

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Greek religion

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little attention was paid to what came after death in the underworld

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Greek religious ideas

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ravaged italy for over 10 years. Unable to take the city of Rome itself

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Hannibal

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March 15 44 BC date of Julius Caesars assassination

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Ides of March

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Homers famous story of the trojan war
central figure Achilles

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Illiad

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took asia Minor
veni,vidi,vici
( I came, I saw, I conquered)

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Julius Caesar

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was the most important Roman contribution to western civilization

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Law

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was found to be a mainland Mycenean dialect

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Linear B

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Stocic Roman emperor who wrote Meditations

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Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD

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vied for power during second phase of Roman civil war.
Sulla rulled as the first military dictator in 81 BC

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Marius and Sulla

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form of sun worship popular amoung Roman soliders
excluded women and permitted worship of other gods

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Mithraism

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destroyed the ancient cities of pompei

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Mt. Vesuvius

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The story ulysses voyege home

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Odyssey

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one of Sophocles(496-406 BC) famous tragedies

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Oedipus Rex

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special election any citizen recieving 6000 votes out of 30000 total votes would be exiled from Athens for 10 years

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Ostracism

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Between Athens and Sparta. Athenian imperialism

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Pelponnesian War(431-404 BC)

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dictator of Athens for 15 years

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Pericles

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the persians were defeated by Miltiades at Marathon Themistocles at Salamis and Aritides and Pausanias at Plataea

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Persian wars

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Marathon

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phiddipides

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the greek city state

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Polis

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argued that nations pass through predictable stages of growth and decay

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Polybius

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the key to political power in the 50 yrs tha followed the Augustus reign

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Praetorian Guard

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were the philosophers who pondered the nature of reality amoung whom were:
•Democratus(atomic theroy),
•Empedocles(air,eath, water,fire)
•Anaxagoras(all is nous or mind)
•Anaximander(motion is infinite and eternal)
•Xenophanes(god is infinite, unmoved mover)

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Presocratics

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the right of the oldest legitimate son to inherit the fathers property.

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primogenitur

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sophist who taught that



"Man is the measure of all things"

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Protagoras

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believed in reincarnation, an immortal soul and the mystical power of numbers to communicate with his followers

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Pythagoras

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Greek philosopher most famous for his theorem a2+b2=c2 which describe the relationship of the three sides of a triangle

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Pythagoras

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comic theater

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Roman recreation and entertainment

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founded by Romulus in 753 BC on the site where he killed his twin brother

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Rome

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themistocles destroyed the Persian fleet

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Salamis

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a christian writer

saw the barbarians as morally superior to the Romains

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Salvian

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greek word for school which was a place one learned the proper use of leisure

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Schole'

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ravaged Italy for over 10 years

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Second Punic War 218-201 BC

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suicide of Antony and Cleopatra and the succession of Octavian as sole ruler of Rome

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Second Triumvirate(44-31 BC)

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the most powerful body in the early Roman republic

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Senate(senex)

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defined justice as giving every man his due

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Simonides

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condemned to death for the corruption of youth

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Socrates

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traveling teachers

argues that there were no universal truths

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Sophists

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greek military state in the Peloponnesus

2 kings, 5 ephors

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Sparta

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oligarchy or government by the few.

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Spartan government

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slave or harlots

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Spartan society

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age 60 when they were eligible for government service

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Spartans

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divided the empire into four parts

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Tetrarchy

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means sea kingdom

symbolisim including,bull leaping,the great mother goddess,boxing,the labyr

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Thalasocracy

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St. Augustines most famous work which contrasted the secular city of Rome with the coming city of God on earth

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The City of God

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plebeian officals who posses a veto power

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Tribunes

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Roman poet who wrote the Aenead

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Vergil