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Foundations of Western Culture

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Neolithic   humans used stone for settled agriculture  
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Paleolithic   "Old Stone Age"-humans used stone for everything and every day things  
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Fertile Crescent   another name for Mesopotamia  
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Mesopotamia   "land between the rivers"- Tigris and Euphrates  
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Sumer (Sumerian)   land at the end of Mesopotamia where the Sumerians lived-very intelligent  
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Uruk   a major city of Sumer- where Gilgamish is from  
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Ziggurat   The temple complex  
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Cuneiform   "wedged-shaped writing"  
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Pictograph   use of pictures to write concrete things  
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Anthropomorphism   the idea that gods are like humans and act like humans  
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Atrahasis (creation account)   basically the gods need us to work for them because we have no purpose anyway  
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Iron Age   use of iron and other medals for everything  
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Nineveh   a major capital of the Assyrians  
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Library of Ashurbanipal   library built by King Ashurbonge to preserve ancient writings  
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Mycenaean   Ruled by warriors  
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Minoan   Ruled by women  
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Heinrich Schliemann   "discovered" Troy and the Mycaenean culture  
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Arthur Evans   "discovered" Knossos and the Minoan culture  
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Discovery of Troy   Heinrich found a bunch of bronze from around 1200, which then he lead to believe it was this city  
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Mycenae   city of King Agamemon that was "discovered" by Heinrich Schlemann, not really sure if it's real or just invented based off of the city of Troy in the Iliad  
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Mask of Agamemnon   In the city of Mycenae, they would used mask to cover/honor the dead and apparently Heinrich found this mask but it looked like none of the others and strangely resembled Heinrich.  
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Shaft Graves   Where the bodies of the people of Mycenae were buried and had mask over them  
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peer polity model   the idea of a shared culture but not a shared ruler  
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Knossos   city of King Minos that was "discovered" by Arthur Evans, not really sure if it's real or just invented based off of the city of greek mythology  
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Matriarchy (in connection with the Minoans)   Females were in charge  
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“Bull Jumping”   a activity in the Minoan culture where men would jump over bulls for entertainment  
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Hesiod   a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He created the idea of Theogony  
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Theogony   origins of the gods  
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Simonides   a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Ceos.  
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The Sumerian Pantheon (The Primary Deities discussed in class)   -Amunaki-heavenly beings -Gigi-heavenly beings on earth -Anu-Origins -Ki-Earth -Enlil-air god -Enki-earth bound water god -Sin-moon/fertility god -Shamasha-sun god -Ishtar-sexual desire god  
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The Rape of Europa (Zeus and Europa)   Zeus transforms to bull and takes Europa and causes her to have king Minos  
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King Minos and the Minotaur   King Minos builds a palace for the Minotaur which is the offspring of his wife and this bull that was causing problems for the city which leads him to sacrifice 7 boys to the Minotaur every year  
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The Origins of the Greek Gods (According to Hesiod’s Theogony)   Choas created Gaia and Quranos who created Chronos and Rhea who created Zeus and Hera who created the Olympians  
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The Judgment of Paris   Paris stole Helen from Minilaious because three goddesses promised different things and that is why Aphrodite is a Trojan  
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The Myth of Pandora   Pandora opens the box she isnt supposed to letting all the evils out of the world and shuts it, leaving hope in the box  
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Gilgamesh   King of Uruk- had a law he could have sex with any woman he pleases, no one likes him because he's kind of a jerk and searches for immortality for Enkidu  
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Enkidu   raised by animals and the goddess took him to have sex with a woman to get him to become human  
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Diomedes   Fighting for Fathers glory-Greek-could tell god from man-killed Priam's kids  
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Ajax   sent to get Achilles back-Greek  
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Zeus   king of the gods-god of jusitce-made a deal thetis that greeks will struggle and he will help trojans  
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Utnapishtim   The one who builds a boat like Noah and he is the one who Gilgamesh comes to to seek eternal life for Enkidu  
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Hector   Finishes of Patroclus-Trojan-beloved by many-breeder of horses  
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Aeneas   trojan commander-aphrodite's son  
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Priam   father of Hector and Paris-King of Trojans  
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Andromache   Hector's wife  
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Aphrodite   goddess who loves trojans and saves paris  
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Hecuba   Paris and Hectors mom  
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Achilles   Got his girl stolen-Greek-goes to mother to get help-absent during most of the war-greatest warrior  
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Paris   Hector's Brother-Trojan- Coward-said to be "god-like"  
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Athena   side of the Greeks-gives everyone everything, such as Diomedes temper  
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Odysseus   a great speaker sent to Achilles to get him back in the war-Greek  
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Ares   caused entire reason for war-judgement of Paris-offered Helen to Paris  
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Apollo   side of trojans  
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Agamemnon   King of the Greeks  
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Nestor   Orator-Greek  
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Hera   wife of Zeus-fighting for the Greeks  
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Phoenix   a second father to Achilles and is sent to get him back in the war-Greek-dont wait until its too late  
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Artemis   goddess of archury-side of trojans  
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Menelaus   brother of Agamemon-Greek  
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Helen of Troy   The reason for the war-Paris has stolen her-daughter of Zeus-most beautiful woman in the world-Greek/Tojan  
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