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Introduction to Ancient History

This class was created by Brainscape user Hal Ferrier. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Hal Ferrier
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Decks in this class (15)

Lecture 1 - Natural environment
Earthquakes,
Volcanoes,
Produce of greece
12  cards
Status, Wealth And Poverty
Types of wealth,
Wealth and political participatio...,
Rome land trade and manufacture
9  cards
Them And Us
Other easterners,
Egypt and herodotus,
Land of wonders
12  cards
Disease In the Greco-Roman world
Other predisposing factors,
Location,
Problems of interpretation
7  cards
Lecture 2 - Telling the time
Nature as a time measure,
Natural landscape,
Human landscape
14  cards
Lecture 3 - Living off the land
Greek climate and terrain,
Italian climate and terrain,
Subsistence and surplus
12  cards
Lecture 4 - city and empire
Eclogues,
Founding towns,
Alexander the great
5  cards
Lecture 5 - Travel in the Greco-Roman world
By sea,
On land,
Countermoves
5  cards
Lecture 6 - documentary evidence
Inscriptions,
Papyri
2  cards
Lecture 7 - ancient literary sources
Political lessons,
Loss of political power,
Letters
7  cards
Key people
Cicero,
Cato,
Dionysius of halicanarssus
10  cards
The Ancient Economy
Economy without money linear b,
Invention of coinage,
The markets
7  cards
Religion 1
How does religion work,
Priests,
Communications
11  cards
Religion 2
Religion and politics,
Religious feuds political feuds,
Lex ogulnia 300 bc
5  cards
Slavery
Aristotle and slavery,
Slave society,
Slaves in rome
9  cards

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