World History Unit 2

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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


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