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History Final #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pericles | Man who dominated Athenian politics in the fifth centruy BCE |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great |
| Corinthian | Greek architectural style |
| Myceneans | Predecessors to the ancient Greeks on the Greek mainland |
| Minoans | Earliest powerful nation in the Mediterranean |
| Greek politics after 800 BCE | Localized, aristocrats and tyrannies were important, sketched a dynamic version of democracy, city-states |
| Euclid | Wrote the Elements which is the basis of modern geomerty |
| Homer | Blind poet who wrote epics to show Greek values of courage and honor like The Odyssey and The Illiad |
| Thucydides | Historian who wrote of the Peloponesian Wars and focused on the actions of man and human events |
| Aeschylus | Early playwright who wrote tragedies like The Oresteia |
| Archimedes | Engineer who created the lever, pulley, and water screw |
| Herodotus | Father of History, Wrote about the Persian War. Included the gods in his histories |
| Philip ll | Conquered the Greek city-states |
| 510 BCE | The Roman aristocracy rebelled against Etruscan kings and expelled them |
| Imperial Administration's attitude towards local governments in the Roman Empire | Local governments were granted considerable autonomy, and in some cases whole kingdoms were preserved |
| Augustus' attitude to the republican institutions | Retained many of the institutions and offices of the republic, including the Senate, but took actual power in his own hands |
| Flaw of the Roman Empire | Emperors never established a clear line of succession, leaving decisions to the army |
| Trajan | Extended the Roman empire to its greatest size |
| Innovations of the Roman Empire | ensuring enough food went around by regulating amounts, established tax revenues, built aqueducts |
| Gracchus Brothers | Attempted to close the gap between the rich and poor |
| Tribunes | Group elected to protect the interests of the commoners |
| Paul | Disciple who spread Christianity throughout Roman Empire |
| Neolithic Era | Time when rise of farming/sedentary agriculture took place - 8000 to 3500 BCE |
| Agricultural Revolution Benefits | Spread of cultivated fields, domestication of animals and development of towns |
| Sumerians | First civilization to emerge in the Middle East |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian writing |
| Akkadians | First ones to achieve a political unity of all Mespoptamia |
| Hammurabi | Codified all of the laws of Mesopotamia - punishments were often harsh |
| Irrigation systems | Facilitated the development of the first civilizations |
| Hittites | Had iron weapons and chariots making it easy for them to overthrow their enimeis |
| Similarity between Mesopotamia and Egypt | Both were strongly stratified with distinctive classes of nobles, priests, peasants, and slaves |
| Egyptian Pharaoh | Regarded as a god with power to assure prosperity and control the Nile |
| Difference in Mesopotamian and Egyptian | Lack of an epic literary tradition in Egypt |
| Harappan Civilization Cities | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro |
| Harappan Culture | Intensely conservative and resistant to change |
| Harappan Religion | Focused on fertility |
| Sanskirt | A language |
| Aryans relationships with people they conquered | Conquered people, called the Dasas, were enslaved and the Aryans prohibited all social relationships with them |
| Aryan Religion | Polytheistic, featuring primarily male deities related to war, fire, and rain |
| Varnas | Indian name for categories in the social order |
| Similarity between ancient Egyptian, Shang, and Sumerian | River valley location |
| Rice | First crop domesticated in China |
| First emergence of agriculture in China | On the Ordus Bulge in the Yangze River Valley |
| Zhou conquered the Shang... | By instilling the idea of the Mandate of Heaven |
| What did Agricultural surpluses result in? | population growth and social stratification |
| Chinese dynasties order | Xia, Shang, Zhou |
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