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History 101 Review Chapter 5
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Undergraduate 1
10/07/2012

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Paleolithic
Definition
Moved with food supply
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Neolithic
Definition
Water and good soil for crops
Term
Shang Dynasty
Definition
Oracle Bones - Used to predict future and communicate with gods
Bronze Age
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Zhou Dynasty
Definition
Mandate of Heaven
Well-field System
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Q'in (chin)
Definition
Terra Cotta Army
Legalism was adopted
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Confucianism
Definition
Ideas kept in the Analects
Follows the Dou (The Way)
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Daoism
Definition
p. 90
Almost a complete opposite of Confucianism. The Daoists believed that we should not work but be in touch with nature.
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Greek "Dark Age"
Definition
- shortage of food
- shortage of trade
- shortage of good land
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Homer
Definition
Most famous poet of all time
He wrote the Iliad and the Odessey
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Minoan civilizations
Definition
- Minos was the legendary Kind of Crete
- City of Knossus
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Greek Military Organization
Definition
- hoplites - heavily armed infantry men who wore bronze helmust

- Phalanx - A row of soldiers 8 ranks deep.
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Athenian Government
Definition
Started out as an aristocracy and but turned into a democracy under Pericles
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Delian League
Definition
All of the city states formed into one league.
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Aristotle
Definition
- Famous Greek Philosopher
- Views on women: Women should be subordinate to men (The way it should be)
- Views on government: Best Governments are monarchy, aristocracy, and constitutional government.
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Plato
Definition
- Fascinated with the question of reality i.e how do we really know we are here?
- A higher world of unchanging Ideas and Forms has always existed.
- Men and women should be equal
- Distrusted democracy and instead promoted a republic in which there were three basic groups.
1. upper class (philosopher kings/ruling elite)
2. Warriors
3. Producers (Common Laborers)
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lycurgus
Definition
Brought about Spartan Military refom
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Solon
Definition
gave the poor their land back and freed them from all debt
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Cleithenes
Definition
Athenian Democracy
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Peloponnesian War
Definition
War between Athens and Sparta. Greece lost.
Term
Pericles
Definition
Athens flourished culturally (Golden Age of Greece
He expanded democracy.
Made Athens the leading culteral center of Greece.
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Epicureanism
Definition
Happiness was the goal in life, however they did not pursue or consider sex "happiness" (whatever that means lol)
Freedom from worry
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Guse
Definition
1. A little duckling
2. A gymnast
3. An overacheiver
4. Has a hot sister
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Stoicism
Definition
Find Happiness kind of like the Epicureans.
Public service was noble.
Term
Hellenistic civilization
Definition
A civilization formerly conquered by Alexander the Great
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1 and 2nd triumverate
Definition
Octavian, Lepidus, Mark Antony
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Roman Military Organization
Definition
Legion
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Constatine
Definition
Moved capital to Constantinople (Modern day Istanbul)
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Virgil
Definition
Aeneid
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