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America and Antiquity
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2013

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Classics/Classical
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Connection to the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures of the past, and the cultures of the Phoenicians and Egyptians
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Commonplace Book
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Kind of journal; included favorite or important quotes from studies, thoughts and reactions, not summaries, modern day blog
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General Education
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Changing, long, traditional education dealing with Greece and Rome
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History of Education
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Contained Trivium (grammar, rhetoric, more) and Quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, more) and advanced subjects
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Acropolis
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A citadel built on elevated ground
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Agora
Definition
Mall, shopping area, place to meet someone and to do business
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Andron
Definition
Men's room in house, not bathroom
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Greek Families
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Husband/fathers, wives/mothers, children, slaves/vassals
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Gynaikon
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Women's room in house, not bathroom
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Kyrios
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Girls legally subordinate to authority in the form of a father, wives in the form of her husband
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Oikos
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Home/House
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Polis
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City state, plural: poleis
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Gravitas
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Seriousness
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Mos Maiorum
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The way of the ancestors
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Paterfamilias
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Father of the family
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Pietas
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Piety
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Roman Families
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Paterfamilias, women more independent, freeing of slaves more common
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Roman Names
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Three Parts: Praenomen, Nomen, Cognomen
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Rome
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Central Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia, grows to include Western Europe as well; Speaks Latin
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Virtus
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Manly moral strength
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Apoikia
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Greeks start colonizing all over the world
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Charter of Urso
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Lex Ursonensis; Colony of Genetiva Julia (Spain Law) by Julius Caesar / Marc Antony
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Colonia
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To cultivate or to farm, +300 Roman citizens + other allies who owe allegiance to Rome
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Metropolis
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The mother city
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Oikist
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Chosen founder of new colony
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Julius Caesar
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49-44 BCE, general and statesman of Rome
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Anti-Federalists
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Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, worried central gov't would lead to king or tyrant
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Articles of Confederation
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13 State alliance
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Constitutional Convention
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1787 - goal to make new Constitution
~430 BCE - Darius I becomes King of Persia
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Democracy
Definition
power of the people; direct election
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Federalists
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1787 - James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, wanted to create a strong central government
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Isonomia
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Equality under the Law
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Monarchy
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Tyranny; rule by one
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Oligarchy
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Rule by the few, the elite, the Aristocracy
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Darius
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King of Persia, believed monarchy is best for all
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George Washington
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President of the Philadelphia Convention
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James Madison
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Federalists, who in part created the Federalist Papers
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Megabyzus
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Advocate for oligarchy
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Otanes
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Advocate of Democracy
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Iliadic Monarchy
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individual kingdoms, monarchy is natural because of model of King Zeus
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Mycenaean Kingship
Definition
By Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother
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