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Amenhotep |
inherited the vast well governed kingdom assembled by his prodecessors. The young pharoah showed an early inclination toward the worship of the sun. |
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anthropomorphism |
natures behavior is comparable to mans: Example god is angry-thunder=dark |
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Aritsoltle |
student of plato whos philosophy was bases on the rational analysis of the material world. he stressed the rigorous investigation of real phoenomena (teacher of alexader the great) |
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Battle of Kadesh |
a great battle between the egyptians and Hittites(ramses II & Hattusilis..Ends in stalemate |
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ostracism |
10 year exile |
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Battle of Marathon 490 BCE |
battle btwn Hittites and egyptians/ Athenians win= greeks left alone for 6 yrs |
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Diocletian |
emperor of Roman/he recognized that the empir could not be governed by one person. he divided the empire into 4 parts. |
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Hammurabi |
Ruler of Babylon issued a collection of laws that were greatly influential in the Near East and which constitute the worlds oldest surviving legal code. |
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Trajan |
expanded Rome to its greatest extent. emperor of Rome |
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"Crisis of the Third Century" in Rome |
Roman empire has grown too large/ problems=financial, military, lack of influence...Rome is not as important as it used to be. |
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Julius Nepos |
last emperor of Western Empire |
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Neolithic Era |
New stone age, massive increase in population, stone tools, portable agriculture, sizeable villages.......... |
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Lycurgus |
emphasis on collective honor:New government=two kings, council of elders. |
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Cleisthenes |
an aristocrat who had championed the cause of the demos after the fall of the Peisistratids |
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First Punic war 265-241 BCE |
Romans invade Syracuse/Carthage surrenders Sicily to Romans |
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Second Punic war 218-202 BCE |
Carthage expansion into Spain pisses of the Romans. |
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Battle of Zama 202 BCE |
Publius Cornelius Scipio beats Carthage. |
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Third Punic War 149-146 BCE |
Lots of Roman hate toward Carthage; Carthage destroyed. |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero |
"new man" wants to fix the senate. |
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First Triumvirate |
3 people ruling, no one can touch the two commanders because they control the military. |
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Octavian Augustus |
titled "Augustus" "first citizen" |
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Pax Romana |
200 years of Peace |
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Tiberius Gracchus |
elected tribue of the people; instituted major reforms like land; redistribution of property |
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Gaius Grracchus |
brother of Tiberius; elected as tribune 10 yrs after his brother was assassinated. |
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Pericles |
military Leader, Orator |
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Herodotus |
wrote about Persian wars = dubbed the "father of history" |
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Sargon |
King of Akkad=ruled 55 years |
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Socrates |
teacher, educator, oricale of Delphy/ 399 sentenced to death, drinks hemlock and dies Pupils were Plato & Xenohon |
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Tetrarchy |
the result of Dioletian's political reforms of the late third century CE which divided the roman empire into 4 quadrants. |
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Battle of Plataea |
Greeks overcame the Persian invaders. |
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Sea People |
from islands in the Mediterranean/Aegean |
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Polytheism |
belief in multiple gods. |
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Pyramid of Djoser |
1st monumental architecture ever. |
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creation myth |
how it started-different beliefs |
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Monotheism |
belief in ONE god. |
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Solomom |
King David's (2nd king of isreal) 10th son |
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Rabbi |
master of the Torah |
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Greek "dark age" |
90% of greeks slaughtered by sea people |
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Collapse of Alexander the greats empire |
323 BCE, after his death, family members are killed. |
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Oligarchy |
ruled by an elite few |
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Plato |
"platoic forms" knowledge comes form abstraction(philospher, student of Socrates) |
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Phillip II |
reorganized Macedonian military. King Of Macedonia; father of Alexander the Great |
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stoicism |
emphasized order & accepting one's place. |
