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Exam 2 Places, Events, etc...
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11/09/2008

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dominus
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word meaning "lord"; Diocletian
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augusti
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name given to Diocletian and Maximian
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caesar
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lieutenant that governed a subsection of their respective territories
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tetrarchy
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system of rule of four
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Constantinople
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Founded on the sote of the ancient city of Byzantium; epitomized the continuing shift of Rome to the east
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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Cache of Jewish religioius texts hidden in a cave near Qumran
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zealots
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sought hope in politics; wished to expel the Romans by force; Jewis religious group
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Torah
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first five books of the Hebrew Bible
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Saducces
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hereditary temple priesthood and their aristocratc allies
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Pharisees
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urged rigorous devotion to religious law; quite flexible in applying it
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Essenes
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quasi-monastic group that hoped for spiritual deliverance through asceticism, repentance and strict sectarian separation from their fellow Jews
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God-fearers
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did not follow all of Jewis law but admired monotheis and ethical/moral standards
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Arians
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were followers of a priest named Arius; rejected the idea that Jesus was equal to God
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Athanasians
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followers of St. Athanasius; argued that Jesus was fully God
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metropolitans
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bishops who ruled larger cities; known today as archbishops
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patriarchs
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designate bishops who ruled over the oldest and largest Chrisian communities
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papacy
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climax of patriarchal development was the primacy of the bishop of Rome
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monks
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laymen who lived alone and sought extremes of self denial
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foederati
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settled inside roman borders to reiforce depleted or withdraw roman garrisons
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Carolingian renaissance
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Charlemagne tries to build up intellectual and cultural life in kingdom
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Carolingian miniscule
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becomes the basis for all the writing in Europe
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corpus juris civilis
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body of civil law; made up of Code, the Novels, the Digest, and the Institutes
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Iconoclastic Controversy
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shattered religious peace
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Iconoclastic movement
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initiated by Leo the Isaurian; prohibit the worship of icons
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Mecca
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religious center of Islam
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Kabah
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pilgrimage shrine that served as a central place of worship
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Hiraj
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migration of Muhammad and his followers to the town of Yathrib
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Medina
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City of the Prophet; Yathrib
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Islam
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word meaning submission
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Quran
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the compilation of the revelations of God to Muhammad
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caliph
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deputy of the prophet
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Shiite
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minority religious faction; insisted only descendents of Ali could be caliphs
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Sunni
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those who stood for actual historical development of the caliphate and committed to its customs
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Abbassids
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after Umayyads; stressed Persian elements; capital in Baghdad; developed own Muslim administration; eastward looking
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Umayyads
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functioned as a Byzanine successor state; westward looking
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Ulama
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commented on religion and religious laws of Islam
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Sufi
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religous impulses and feelings
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Canon of Medicine
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Standard of medicine in Islamic East and West unil 17th century; written by Abessena
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Rubyiat
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Muslim poem used by English; racy
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Merovingian
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dynasty of the Franks
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Triiumverate
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Octavian, Marc Antony, and Lepidus
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Imperator
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word meaning victorious general or emporer
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Augustus
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word meaning venerable or worthy of honor
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princips
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first citizen; name Octavian gave himself
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Principate
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the early empire; name given to the period of Octavian rule
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Pax Romana
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Roman Peace
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476 AD
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Fall of Roman Empire
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Praetorian guard
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Caesars guards
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Order of Struggles
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200 year struggle between patricians and plebeians
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patricians
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early aristocracy
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plebeians
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98% of the citizen population; initially no political power
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Latin Right
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Series of common "rights"; intermarriage and legal migration between states
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consuls
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two elected officials who served one term; acted in place of a king
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tribunes
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protected the plebeians by vetoing unlawful patrician acts
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concilium plebis
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assembly composed only of plebeians
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Carthage
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great maritime power; commercial prowess; material resources; superior to Rome
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First Punic War
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Began in 246 BC; lasted 23 years; Carthage lost; forced to give up Italy
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Second Punic War
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raged for 16 years because Carthage attempted to extend rule into Spain
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Third Punic War
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Rome demanded Carthage to abandon their city and settle at least ten miles from the coast; Carthage refused sparking 3 year war in which they were completely wiped out
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latifundia
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huge agricultural estates
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equestrians
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overseas merchants
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On the Nature of Things
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written by Lucretius; book length philosophical poem
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Stoicism
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virtue is sufficient to happiness; tranquility of mind is the highest of good
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