World History Unit 2
If you came to power outside of constitutional means was known as a:
Despot
Greece agriculture
Early history took place on the shores of the Aegean Sea (probably Crete) Greeks to a turn towards fishing and commerce because the Greek soil was rocky
AD 313
Edict of Man
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS
The ruler was Pericles Two features 1. energetic commence 2. culture
Responsible for founding Rome (legend)
Two brothers names Romulus and Remus
resembled Greek epics
Upanishads
1100-750 BC
Was one of migrations and invasions
Confucius
1. Chinese philosopher 2. Believed that the ruler SHOULD be responsible
The three rivers of India (which is a subcontinent) China is NOT (a subcontinent)
1. Ganges River 2. Krishna River 3.Narbada River
Nero was so famous because
1. He murdered many people 2. He was accused of burning Rome in AD 64 3. He persecuted Christians
The chief cities of the Indus civilization
1. Mohenjo-Daro 2. Harappa
PELOPONNESIAN WAR
A commercial rivalry between Athens and Corinth Athens massacred the men of Melos Years of fighting weakened the Greek states IN THE END ATHENS BECAME UNDER THE CONTROL OF SPARTA
Sparta
All authority came from the state (Nazi Germany and Communist Russia are examples)
Athens
An administrator appointed by the Athens council was called an Archon The powers Solon got were dictatorial Was a limited democracy because so classes didn't have full rights.
Father of Christian monasticism
Anthony of Egypt
Romans learned to carry huge amounts of water by building:
Aqueducts
heresy denying Christ's divinity
Arianism
At the high time of trade in the empire, materials were imported from...
China and India
Established early democracy
Cleisthenes
Chief magistrates of the ancient Roman Republic
Consuls
DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE!
DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE!
After the Nicene Creed, people began to believe that Jesus was the Son of God
FALSE
Inadequate trade routes and poor highway systems made It difficult for early Christians to spread the gospel.
FALSE
Jesus was crucified by the Roman officials against the will of the people themselves
FALSE
Saul, aka Paul, was an enthusiastic Christian from the beginning of his life, and his faith never wavered.
FALSE
Most Greeks were monotheists
FALSE They were polytheists (supreme god was Zeus)
Early Indian civilization produced no literature of any value
FALSE!
The lifestyle of ancient Romans centered around the:
Family!
Alexander
Founded the city of Alexandra in Egypt ^^ Said that this city will be the best academic center of the Mediterranean World^^ He adopted the Greek culture (from Macedonian) His goal was to fuse the West and East together After his death, his empire was spilt into 3 (three)
GREECE STARTING NOW!!!
GREECE STARTING NOW
Built a defensive wall in Britain
Hadrian
Spartan serfs
Helots
Wrote the history of Egypt that is still used today
Herodotus
Troy
Located on the Hellespont straits Trojan Horse = Poet Homer Heinrich Schliemann studied this ^^
scholar, philosopher, and solider
Marcus Aurelius
Mark Antony
Married Cleopatra, whom was queen of Egypt
Used for banishment
Ostrakon
The belief that everything is God
Panthesim
person of noble birth; aristocrat
Patrician
CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE!
STARTS NOW!!!
The language of Ancient India
Sanskirt (oldest Sanskirt literature is Vedas)
Emperor Shih Huang Ti attempted to protect his empire against Asian invaders by___
building the Great Wall of China
The Indo-Aryans developed a system that still exists today
caste system (if you were out of the caste system you were "untouchable")
CULTURE
every 4 years = the Olympic Games Homer - 330 BC is known as the Classical Period
Socrates was executed for
his beliefs
Latifundia were
large estates
Greek colonization and expansion throughout the Mediterranean were because:
poor soil and overcrowding city-states.
PAX ROMANA
refers to an extraordinary 200 years of peace for Rome
Diocletian tried to restore the economy with:
taxation and price controls
Rome's attitude toward Christians during the time of Nero was one of____
tolerance
Philip of Macedonia ^^
was finally able to defeat the Greek states and bring them under his control did not treat the states his conquered with kindness did NOT form a Pan Hellenic League that included all of the states he conquered + Persia!
All of the trappings of civilization found among the Indus people
1. Written script 2. Metallurgy 3. Standard weights 4. Manufacturing 5. Agriculture
Three conditions which led to a decline in the empire after AD 180, were:
1. leadership dispute 2. decline in trade hurt the economy. 3. mercenaries were hired
Four Noble Truths of Buddha
1."The truth of pain"-- birth, old age, sickness, death, despair; 2."The truth of the cause of pain"-- craving for existence, passion, and so forth, that lead to rebirth; 3."The truth of cessation of pain" - by renunciation; and 4."The truth of the way that leads to the cessation of pain" called the Middle Path.
Plato's greatest student
Aristotle
Buddhism
Atheistic religion because it has no god
Two most important city states between 700 and 500 BC
Athens and Sparta (^Greatest rival to Sparta) Sparta believed in strict obedience
Literature in Rome declined after the death of the emperor
Augustus
The most common metal used by the Chinese in their art is
Bronze
Aristocrat who pitied the poor
Buddha
Early name for Istanbul
Byzantium
Insane
Caligula
Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars was
Carthage
Murderer; accused of setting fire to Rome
Nero
accused Christians of burning Rome
Nero
PERSIAN WARS
Humiliating Persian defeat= Marathon Persian leader = Cyrus Burned Athens after victory at Thermopylae = Persians Athenian navel victory= Salamis
French, Italian, and Spanish languages and many English words are based upon the ____language
LATIN
The 12 Tablets were a written set of
Laws
defeated Antony and Cleopatra
Octavian
An extended period of peace during the Han dynasty was the ____
Pax Sinica, lasted 200 years
Wrote a utopian treatise called the Republic
Plato (whom dreamed of a utopian society)
Having to do with the common people
Plebeian
Spilt into three groups:
Pre Republic, Republic, Empire
Greek beginning
Probably began on the island Crete 1st capital: Knossos (king Minos) Sir Arthur Evans studied this ^^
Famous mathematician
Pythagoras
ROME STARTING NOW!!! ROME STARTS!!
ROME IS STARTING!!!
Hinduism
Reincarnation Modern theosophy
Philosopher that taught by asking questions
Socrates Was executed for "corrupting the youth of Athens"
Before he became dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar was a famous solider
TRUE
Caesar was killed because of his belief in perpetual dictatorship
TRUE
Hinduism is a development of the thought of the Vedas and Upanishads.
TRUE
Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, one of his own disciples
TRUE
Macedonia was a strong state located north of Greece
TRUE
Mercenaries are soldiers who fight for money
TRUE
Not much has been written about the boyhood of Jesus
TRUE
Octavian and Mark Antony ruled after Caesar's death
TRUE
Paul took the gospel as far as Greece and Rome
TRUE
The Roman culture rose from the ruin of ancient Greece
TRUE
The work of the Senate was held in the Forum in Rome
TRUE
The decline of the Roman Empire contributed to the expansion of Christianity
TRUE (Needed a new hope because of extreme social, economic, and political problems)
Harmony with nature
Taosim
Astronomer, thought everything comes from water
Thales
St. Jerome
The Vulgate (a Latin translation of the Bible)
Shang dynasty
The calendar as we know it today The first Chinese dynasty
Han dynasty
The first dictionary and a solar calendar
Roman practiced monogamy meaning:
They only married one woman
There were ____Punic Wars
Three
Officials of ancient Rome
Tribunes
The two major rivers of ancient China
Yangtze and Yellow
The Shang dynasty was overthrown by the ____dynasty
Zhou dynasty
The results of Pericles' death was:
a political vacuum
The attitude of Athenians toward themselves and their empire can be described as one of:
arrogance
