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Western Civ
Western Civ
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Undergraduate 4
02/13/2014
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Cyclical Theory
 Definition
Vico
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Secret plan theory
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Kant
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Marx
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Historical materialism
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Sum of human wills theory
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tolstoy
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Prevalent gvt style:
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Monarchy
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2 types of monarchy:
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Theocracy, caesaropapism
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Caesaeopapism
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Chief priest and ruler are one
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Republic
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Any gvt w/o king or queen
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City-state
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Greece. CS-->NS-->empire
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Mesopotamia
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CS- Ensi
NS- Lugae
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Meso ruling type
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Caesaropapism.
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Declaredto be a god and got away with it
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Narim-sin
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Produced law code that predates Hammurabi
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Ur-Nammu
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Old Kingdom
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Ramses II, Menes
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Middle Kingdom
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Sons of Ra
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King of Crete
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Minos
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_____was close to Greece and destroyed by a ________
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Crete, volcano
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All Greek CSs were______
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Monarchies that gave way to oligarchies
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Deliberative assembly
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apella/ecclesia
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Athenian tenant farmers
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thetes
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Athens had a tyrant known as a
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Solon, who abolished all agricultural debt
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Meeting ofecclesia was held in
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Agora
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Ostracism met in groups known as
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Heliaea
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if person was guilty in heliaea
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pottery with name was thrown down
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Ostracist ruler title
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Strategoi
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Founder of Rome that wasnt Romulus or Remus
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Aneas
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Roman ruling system
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Bicameral
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2 houses
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Assembly (lower) senate (higher)
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Roman "president"
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Consul
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Consul for life was
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Julius Caesar but was killed on induction day
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Who won Roman civil war
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Octavian
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Octavian took the title:
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Caesar Augustus/Princeps
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Roman Emperor thought he was god
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Caligula (Gaius)
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Roman ruler "god" who used godhood to promote good social behaviour
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Diocletian
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Backbone of ancient world
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Economics
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Soldier's cult
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Mithras
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Synoptic Gospels
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MAtt, MArk, Luke
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MAtt written for
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Jews, rich
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Luke written for
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Poor and Gentiles
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Said Christ wasnt divine
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Arius
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Said Christ was divine
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Athanasius
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Constantine passed the
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Nicene Creed
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Pagan Roman emperor
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Julian the Apostate
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Declared everyone must be a christian
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Theodosius I
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CAme up with the cynics
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Diogenes (unadorned and stripped of pleasure)
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CAme up with epicureans
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Epicurus (pleasure through intellectual learning)
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Stiocs
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Zeno (hybrid bt cynics and epicureans)
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Heliocentrism
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Aristarchus of Samos, Copernicus
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Calculated solar year
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Hipparchus
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Geometrician
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Euclid
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Came up with flotation
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Archimedes
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Approached science of mediciene scientifically
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Herophilus
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