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1)Settled life with critical mass of of people
2)Sustainable agriculture and trade
3)government and law
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| Egyptian Book of the Dead |
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1)Osiris=God of the underworld
2)Osiris decides if you are worthy of an after life
3)BoD contains everything you need to do to get protection from Osiris |
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| 1)a group of people in the middle east that speak the same language |
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| the combining of different, often seemingly contradictory belifs |
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1)is an independent or autonomous entity, not administered as a part of another local government, whose territory consists of a city and possibly its surrounding territory
2)a central city and its surrounding villages, which together follow the same law, have one form of government, and share languages, religious beliefs, and ways of life. |
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1)an ancient area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.
2)The fertile crescent permitted transport of soldiers and traders |
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1)between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium
2)Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak |
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1)is one of the earliest known systems of writing,[1] distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.
2)wedge shaped=literal definition |
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| a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state. |
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1) a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC.
2)destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer such emotions. |
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| 1)a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans |
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1)No privledges based on brith rights
2)working class farmers and craftsmen |
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1)a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of Epicurus
2)Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" is the greatest good, but the way to attain such pleasure is to live modestly and to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of one's desires |
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1)a major reform of the system of law in the Roman Empire
2)Theodosian Code is one of the elementary bases for the system of Roman law that is still used as the foundation for jurisprudence throughout the world outside the United States and the Commonwealth. |
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1)a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion articulated by the Qur'an, a book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God
2)Muhammed is the main prohpoet
3) jesus is a prophet but not son of god |
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1)settle life with critical mass of people
2)sustainable trade and agriculture
3)government and law
4)writing and abstract thought
5)first civilization near fertile crescent |
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1)Civilization forms in Tuscany, no signs of military conquest
2)Religion mimics that of Babylonian emphasis on fortune telling and reading of entrails
3)Women have a lot of rights
4)aristocratic high standard of living
5)Art has characteristics of eastern sphinx and palmettos |
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1)Chief Political and social organization
2)Citizens loyal to city State
3)Competition between polis
4)originate in Greece
5)Athens Thebes and Sparta |
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1)Tiberius wants to put emphasis on citizens being above slaves
2)T wants to redistribute land and discuss a new province
3)Gaius passes a monthly allowance grain law
4)G plans new colonies
5)Leads to a civil war when G supporters killed |
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1)Punic means relating to carthage
2)Carthage started the first punic war by attacking the straight of massina
3)Cause of second: Carthage establishes colonies in spain
4)Hannibal(great war general) wants to attack rome by land through the alps
5)Third punic war rome attacks carthage and completely abolishes them with salt in the crops burning of buildings the whole deal |
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1)Never loses a battle or siege
2) Conquers vast territory with a moderately sized army
3)defeats Persian army despite 10:1 odds against him
4)Uses language and culture to unite the Hellenistic world
5)has his high ranking officers marry Persian nobles |
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1)Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity
2)Jews are protected if they wish to convert to Christianity
3)Christianity become an official religion of the state in the 4th century
4)Jesus born in 6bc
5)First religion to claim their way is the only true way |
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1)First Monotheist Religion
2)Severe but just God
3) missfortunes are punishments
4)messiah will come to restore house of david
5)Faith has a special strength stronger then a just a ritual |
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1)aka consuls
2)Consists of members of aristocracy
3)Controls finance, security and foreign affairs
4) power split between 2 chief magistrates
5) one consul gets control of both armies in times of war |
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1)Elected spokespeople that protect plebs
2)begain in 494 bc
3)given the right to veto in 493 bc
4)297 bc hortensian law
5)H.L gave plebs more power by makin laws binding |
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1)Sole ruler gaining power through military action
2)only rule for a few years |
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1)started as 2 tirbes metes and Persians
2)competed with Greece
3)Persians overthrow metes and expand eastward to threaten Greece
4)alexander the great conquered it
5)large army very rich |
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1)First was a secret alliance between crasus Pompeii and ceaser
2)crasus collects taxes in asia
3)pomey gets dispute with senate settled
4)cesear get supports for consulate
5)pompey and crasus become consuls and cesear is a commander in gaul for 5 years |
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1)Gaius Marrius
2)made military reofrms
3)military volunteer based
4)organized army into legions of 500 people
5)10 cohorts per legion |
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1)In Egypt
2)burial tombs
3)pharohs are mummified
4)things for afterlife
5)2600 bc = great pyramid |
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1) Everyone gets an afterlife
2)Osiris = god of underworld/decides if worthy for an afterlife
3)book of the dead gave everything needed to get protection from osiris |
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1)Floods every July
2)Principle way of transport
3)Fertile Black mud
4)geography keeps it isolated(desert)
5)Recedes in November providing a narrow strip of land |
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| Eastern Mystery Religions |
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1)Later became Christianity
2)originated in mesopatamia
3)offer salvation and distraction from everyday life
4)gave rise to syncretism
5)poor mostly invest in religions |
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1) Golden Age =Humans lived among the gods, full of peace and harmony, longevity and such
2) Silver Age = Men stopped worshiping the gods and so didn't live as long and became "Blessed Spirits" of the underworld
3)Bronze age = War was their main purpose and passion, undone by violent ways
4) Heroic Age = Men lived with demigods, improved life from the bronze age
5) Iron age = Humans live in toil and misery. Social contract is forgotten Humans don't feel shame for wrongdoing |
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1)caves in southern france
2)contain cave paintings
3)l=15000bc
4)c=30000bc
5)drawings were mainly animals
6)first attempts at communication |
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