The Classical Period with Greece and Rome

most famous Greek political figure that dominated Greek politics; an aristocrat part of a democratic political structure

Pericles

Greek mathematicians made amazing advances in the field of...

Astronomy

2 leading city-states in classical Greece

Athens and Sparta

Peloponnesian Wars

Athens and Sparta fought for total control of Greece

Eastern part of the Roman Empire

Byzantine empire

Greek interest in rationality

Carried over to a study of the physical environment to look for order.

Yellow Turbans

Daoist leaders that promised a golden age to be brought by divine magic during the decline of the Han dynasty

The doctrine of bodhisattvas

Doctrine that stated that some people could achieve nirvana through their own meditation

Mahayana, or Greater Vehicle

East Asian form of Buddhism where Buddha was a god

Greek art & culture merged with other Middle Eastern forms during this time period

Hellenistic period

Greek word for "city-state"

Polis (we use "politics")

Characteristics of a Mediterranean civilization

Political intensity Localism Diversity in political forms

Japan's most important religion. Provided for worship of political rulers and the spirits of nature.

Shintoism

Who encouraged his students to question conventional wisdom and was put to death because of it?

Socrates

Athenian dramatist that wrote plays like "Oedipus Rex" that revealed the psychological flaws of the main character...

Sophocles

1st civilization in Central America

The Olmecs

This kingdom existed along the upper Nile by 1000 BCE. They mastered the use of iron and made their own form of hieroglyphics.

The kingdom of Kush

Who was the head of the house?

The oldest man

What did the Mediterranean civilization lag in behind India and China?

The production of agricultural technology

A main force that led to the establishment of the Greek and Roman empires...

The rise of commercial agriculture

Greeks and religion

They did not have a main religion that originated from them. Christianity did rise during their time and they were influenced by the Romans, but it was not a product of the Greek or Roman culture.

Twelve Tables

best-known law code of the Roman Republic

2 leaders of the executive branch of Rome's republic

consuls

Roman conquest spread to North Africa after...

defeating Carthage in the Punic Wars

Benedict

developed the Christian institution of organized monasticism

Stoics

ethical system that emphasized an inner moral independence that would be made with strict discipline of the body & personal bravery

Senate

mainly aristocrats who held almost all executive offices in the Roman state