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Western Civ 1 Exam 1
34 multiple choice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mesopotamia | •the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq |
| Hammurabi | Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia - eye for an eye |
| Isis | mother of egypt - seth ripped osirus up, isis had to give birth imaculatley |
| Judaism | Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud -ten commandments |
| Monotheism | belief in one god only |
| Aristotle | plato's pupil -realist natural world - sensual experience=knowledge materialistic/rational = dr.spock |
| Plato | ideal world - reason- few have capability to rule- art subverts reason - yoda |
| Athens | •he capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess); "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city" •a town in southeast Ohio |
| Greek Golden Age | The Classical Period or Golden age of Greece, from around 500 to 300 BC, has given us the great monuments, art, philosophy, architecture and literature which are the building blocks of our own civilization. |
| Alexander the Great | Greek king of Macedon. He is the most celebrated member of the Argead Dynasty and created one of the largest empires in ancient history. |
| Hellenism | • is a term used to describe the spread of ancient Greek culture, and, to a lesser extent, language. |
| Aeneas | Trojan Prince, falls in love with Queen of Carthage, Dido, he must leave and rule Greece, Dido kills herself |
| Cincinnatus | member of the patrician class, guy wants to have his farm, the Romans need his help in keeping the empire together, he helps them, and declines an offer to be dictator for life |
| Stoicism | an indifference ot pleasure of pain - stoics say emotions are bad. |
| patricians | a person of refined upbringing and manners member of the roman aristocracy |
| plebians | general body of roman citizens |
| Roman Senate | political institution in ancient Rome |
| Julius Caesar | conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy - led his armies into the capital and assumed dictatorship, banged with cleopatra |
| Cleopatra | •beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian |
| Augustus Caesar (Octavian) | was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first ruler of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from January 27 BC until his death in AD 14 actium - naval battle between cleopatra+marc anthony and ocatvian |
| Roman Empire | an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome |
| Roman Aqueducts | supplied water to houses and numerous bath houses aroudn Rome |
| Roman Law | •the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
| paterfamilias | head of roman family |
| samhain | A harvest festival with ancient roots in Celtic polytheism, it was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and continued to be celebrated in late medieval times-sowing-all saints day-all souls day all hallows eve- halloween |
| Comitatus | warrior bond between war leader and warriors |
| wergeld | if you killed someone you ahd to pay the price, literally - reparative payment |
| thor | god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; early swastika that hitler used |
| bird of prey | •any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals |
| st.paul | just a guy riding a donkey through the desert north of jerusalem when jesus finds him and converts him to christianity without him being a jew beforehand |
| Constantine | •Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire |
| manicheanism | •A dualistic religious philosophy having elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought; A dualistic philosophy that divided the world into essentially good and essentially evil |
| st.augustine | framed the concepts of original sin and just war. |
| 476 AD | traditionally regarded as the date of the fall of the Roman Empire |
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