Defintions Flashcards

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Paleolithic era

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Nomad way of life characterized by older values

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Neolithic

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New way of life character prized by domestication of animals and plants

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Fertile Crescent

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Fertile area including Mesopotamia, Levant, Egypt

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pastoralism

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Raising animals on farmland

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Patriarchy

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Father led society

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Bronze Age

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Period of time in which people used bronze for the majority of their endeavours

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Cuneiform

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First writing system invented by Sumerian’s

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Hammurabi Law code

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Babylonian laws (eye for an eye)

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Pharaoh

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God king of Egypt

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Ma’at

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Characterization of Egyptian pharaoh (truth justice moral integrity)

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Book of the dead

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Protected Egyptian dead and aided them in the afterlife

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Iron Age

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After Bronze Age, iron became preferred material

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Yaweh

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God of kingdom of Israel

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Torah

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Sacred text of the Hebrews

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Covenant

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Agreement between Hebrews and Yaweh

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Satrap

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Governor of the Persian empire

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Zoroastrianism

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Persian religion

Good vs bad

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Polis

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Greek city state

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Hoplites

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Greek foot soldiers

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Tyrant

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Come to power with money or power and toppling existing government (dictator from a coup)

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Democracy

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Population is represented by elected officials

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Oligarchy

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Lead by few

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Helots

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Slaves of Spartans

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Delian league

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Athenian body to fight conflict

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Gynaeceum
Woman’s area in Athens (slaves and wives )
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Sophists
Athenian philosophers who applied speculation to politics and language
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Socratic method
Critical thinking skills created by Socrates
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Platonic ideal
It is ideal to have columns and plan ideal forms
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Hellenistic
Greek like
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Epicureanism
Hellenistic philosophy seeking pleasure but not involvement
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Stoicism
Hellenistic philosophy seeking pleasure and involvement
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Natural law
Stoic philosophy explaining the unisson of people and the universe
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Senate
Group of 300 during the Roman monarchy and republic that gave advice to the king
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Consuls
Type of magistrate | Majority plebeian
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Struggle of orders
Patricians vs Plebians. | Plebeians wanted place in society, being that they are military majority
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Tribunes
Presided over the plebeian assembly
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Paterfamilias
Male head of household
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Manumission
Release from skavery
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Latifundia
Farm land in Rome worked by slaves
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Imperator
Leader of Rome
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Princeps
Rule of Augustus to end of the crisis
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Messiah
Expected king of Hebrews
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Pagan
People who did religions other than Christianity
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Heresy
Belief contrary to Christianity
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Tetrarchy
Rule of four
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Arianism
Belief that Jesus Christ is the son of god
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Petrine doctrine
Basis of Roman Catholic doctrine on papal primacy