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33 Cards in this Set
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Cultural Diffusion |
Ideas, beliefs, goods spreading from one country of people to another |
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Golden Age |
Height of flourishment |
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Achievements of Egypt |
mummifying bodies, alphabet, math, medicine, 365-day calendar, papyrus |
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Achievements of phoenicians |
lived on sea and traveled to land to trade, North star to help navigate, build boats, glass, purple dye, Non-verbal language |
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Achievements of Greece |
tragedies, olympics, theaters |
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achievements of rome |
Architecture, science |
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Polytheism |
belief in many gods |
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Homer |
illad and Odyssey |
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Roman Republic |
Overthrow of the roman kingdom |
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Julius Caesar |
Critical role in demise of roman republic and roman empire |
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Roman Technology |
Sanitation, healthy, engineering |
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Government type for both greek and romans |
Feudalism |
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Islamic empire years |
634-1250 AD |
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Islamic achievements |
Navigation, Education, Math, Medicine |
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Byzantine Empire years |
395-1435 AD |
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Byzantine Empire Achievements |
Art, Architecture, scholarship, law, weapons |
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Age of discovery years |
1450-700 |
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Motives for expansion |
God, Glory, Gold |
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What European countries explored? |
Portugal, Spain |
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Explorers of the age of discovery |
Prince Henry, Ga Gama, Afonso de Albuquerque, Columbus, Vespucci, Balboa |
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Henry the Navigator |
inspires others to explore |
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Mercantilism |
belief in the benefits of profitable trading, commercialism |
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Reformation |
Movement against errors of Roman Catholic |
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Martin Luther |
gets mad at church for buying indulgences |
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Protestant |
Christian Faith |
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95 theses |
95 arguments why not to buy indulgences |
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Renaissance years |
1350-1650 |
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In what country did the renaissance begin |
Italy |
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Renaissance |
Age of man |
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Humanism |
Focus on the individual and his/her achievements |
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Leonardo da vinci |
Influenced by Greco-Roman ideals but most by need to observe nature |
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Galileo |
Improvements on telescope, corrected theory that we were center of the universe |
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Copernicus |
astronomer, math, science, heliocentric theory |
