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HIST 120
Final exam review
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/03/2011

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Wrote of the Roman Army
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Polybius
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Wrote of the second Punic war and threat from Hannibal
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Livy
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Punic wars
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264 B.C. Rome went to war with Carthage. A threat to Sicilian city of Messina caused this war.
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Carthage surrendered Sicily to Rome.
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Outcome of Punic wars
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Wrote of the third Punic war - The Destruction of Carthage
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Appian of Alexandria
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Lucretius
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Critical of religion because it made people do blasphemous things but they were acceptable because they did it in the name of god.
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Cicero
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Advocate of Stoicism
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Stoicism
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all people are essentially equal because we all have the capacity for reason; people are morally self-sufficient, capable of regulating their own lives
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Quintilian
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Wrote of how to teach children
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Seneca
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wrote of Stoic approach to slavery
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Marcus Aurelius
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Believed the purpose of life was to do work and reach your full potential; be an intelligent and social being
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The civil law
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ius civile
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Law of nature
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ius naturale
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Law of nations
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ius gentium
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The Civil Law
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applicable only to Romans, not to the state
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The Law of Nature
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everlasting universal law that binds all people in humanity
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Law of Nations
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international law governing the relationship between Romans and other peoples
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Transubstantiation
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Jesus is really there
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The Creeds
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begotten, not made
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Logos
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Greek for "word"
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1. Shadows
2. Reflections
3. Things themselves
4. Sun
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Allegory of the cave
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Tertullian
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Opposed the study of pagan literature because he thought the gospel taught everything Christians needed to know
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Clement of Alexandra
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Supports pagan learning because it teaches Philosophy, which was the first teacher of morals and rights to the Greeks.
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St. Augustine
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He wanted Christians to learn philosophy under Christ’s guidance. The true function of philosophy is to preach gospel.
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St. Benedictine
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wrote of monastery life
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Athenagoras
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wrote of Christian rules of marriage
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Abbot
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Comes from the Hebrew "Abba", meaning father.
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Adam and Eve - original sin
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Source of all sin
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Guild
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business associations whose purpose is to eliminate outside competition.
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William of Tyre
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Believed that the massacre in Jerusalem was done for religious purification
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Feudalism
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local nobles are in control - rural community
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Waldensian
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lived their life like an Apostle and thought the medieval church didn't have traditional Christian values
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Harold of Gloucester
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Boy who was supposedly killed and kidnapped by the Jews
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Troubadour
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wrote songs of courtly love
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Christine de Pisan
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Wrote of womens' worth, noting Virgin Mary
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Peter the Hermit
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one of the first Crusades; a commoner
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Israel
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He who struggles with god
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Immaculate conception
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born without sin
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