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age of pericles
460-429 BC
Greek
Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian war—431-404 BC
alexander the great
from Macedonia
336-323 BC
Hellenistic age (Greek fusion with East)
conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt
bureaucracy replaces polis (city state) gov.
Greek world contributions
ship building
philosophy
scientific method
democracy and law system
arch, sculpture, art, performing arts
columns, parthenon
Roman engineering
concrete
arch
roads
aqueducts cisterns
buildings (colosseum) ( bread + circus)
Roman literature—
Virgil —The Aeneid
Ovid— Metamorphosis
Aeneas flees Troy, to Rome, storm blows them to Carthage
written 29 BC
dactylic hexameter
moral —we will have opposition and must persevere—the outcome will recover more than what is lost
Metamorphosis—moral is change creation to death of Augustus Caesar.
15 books
Roman mythology / history
Roman Republic
dates, leaders
wars
509- 27 BC
Romas defeats Etruscans
patricians and plebeians, slaves
punic war 146 BC defeat Carthage
Greek culture
Julius Caesar 44BC assassinated
Augustus Caesar 27 BC 1st Emperor
Roman Empire
dates
rulers
Augustus Caesar—first emperor 27 BC
Pax Romana 200 years peace
27 BC 180 AD
Constantine
empire split/ eastern western
fall of Rome—476 AD
Roman Empire dates
fall, why?
27BC- 476 AD
GOTHS, vandals, huns sack Rome
Byzantium—1453 AD
african—
egalitarian society
all people equal/ no classes
fertile crescent
civilizations
rivers
developed beginning 9000BC
egypt (Nile) farming 6000 BC
Sumer (Tigris, Euphrates)—5000BV
Phoenicia (Mediterranean)
mesopotamia
land b/t Tigris and Euphrates
gk. land between rivers
irrigation
several classes: gov. leaders and priests. merchants, farmers.
when did Mesopotamia begin
11,000 BC just after last ice age (neolithic period)
domestication of plants (wheat barley) and animals (pigs, goats)
Mesopotamia periods
UBAID ( early)
SUMER 3000 BC—large cities
1000 BC Ur auric, Kush
cities grow as farmers learn to store grain in pottery and graineries
Sumer
first civilization
first system of writing—cuneiform
Code of Hammurabi —written in confirm when Babylonia controlled Sumer 2nd mill BC—an eye for an eye.
hammurabi’s code
king of Babylonia 1792-1750 BCE
written on stone stele
predated by code Ur-Nammu 2100 BCE
Ham—more detailed
10 CC COMES AFTER.1500-1200bce
Egyptian achievements
unification who, when?
unification upper and lower kingdom
King Menes 3000 BCE —1st pharaoh
Pyramids and obelisks 2630 BCE
Great Pyramid (Khufu 2551 BCE)
Hieroglyphics glyphs
Calendar 12 months 365 days
Rosetta Stone
led to translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
discovered 1799
stone with Greek, hieroglyphics, and demotic
Kush
ancient peoples living south of egypt
ruled Egypt
2000 BCE- 300 CE
ruled Egypt for 100 years (760- 656 BC)
twenty-fifth dynasty (100 year rule of egypt)
capital Memphis then moved to Moroe
remained independent 1000 years after Egypt was conquered by Persians
jewish diaspora
722 BC Assyria conquered N. kingdom
586 BC Babylonia
cyrus the great of Persia releases Jews
allows/ aids temple rebuild.
70 CE Roman’s destroy temple
force diaspora—Jews spread all over
middle ages jewish ghettos in Europe
1940s Holocaust
Jewish holy books
Tanakh
(contains Torah)
Talmud —commentary
israelites
dates—
2000BC- 600BC
1000 BC Saul unites kingdom
hittites on the north, egypt on the south
assyrians conquered north kingdom in 700BC
Babylon conquers south 500 BC
mishnah
oral torah
later it was written down.
maccabee warriors
66 AD fight Romans
70 AD loose and from-and sack Jerusalem and destroy the temple
Ashkenazic
Sephardic
Ash—jews from France Germany Eastern Europe ( Yiddish, many immigrated to US)
Sep— from Spain, Portugal, N Africa Middle East (more integrated into cultures there)