World History I
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- Hellenism
- Greek culture dominated
- Alexander the Great
- Wanted to Hellenize the World Founded many new cities Adopted many Persian customs Died young from a fever
- Socrates
- Outspoken critic Sophist Athenians didn't want to hear what he had to say
- Herodotus
- "Father of History" Used gossip and myths to "spice up" his stories
- Thucydides
- Wrote only about what happened in his lifetime Tried to make sense of events
- Sophists
- Teach rhetoric Socrates was the most outspoken Sophist Philosophers
- Animism
- Religious belief that every living has a soul
- Punic Wars
- Between Rom and Carthage 1- Rome Wins 2-Hannibal invaded Italy, didn't capture Rome. Rome attacks Hannibal and wins. 3- Rome destroys Carthage
- Republic
- The people are the officials Nobody gets too much power
- Fertile Crescent
- Rich soils Golden fields Persian Gulf to Med. Sea
- EOG
- Mesopotamian narrative poem Describes a great flood First piece of literature
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Discovered Homeric Troy
- Ziggurat
- Large platform with the city's chief god or goddess on top
- Zoroaster
- Man who believed Ahura Mazda told him to start a new religion
- Ahura Mazda
- Two twin sons- Truth and Lie Truth- heaven Lie- hell
- Covenant
- Canaan belongs to Jews- Promised Land Moses renewed it
- Sargon
- Created Akkah Expanded Sumer First empire
- Cyrus the Great
- Largest empire ever seen Persian
- Darius I
- United Persian Empire Founded Percopolies
- Babylonian Capivity
- Babylonian armies capture Judah
- Assyrians
- First libraries Violent Controlled FC, Egypt and most of Anatolia
- Phoenicians
- ALPHABET
- MInoans
- Sea-traders Lived on Crete Destroyed by volcano
- Bureaucracy
- Lots of levels of government and jobs
- Hammurabi's Code
- LEX TALIONES- eye for an eye Civil/ Criminal Law Patriarchal
- Neolithic Revolution
- "New Stone Age"
- Nile
- Helped Egypt "Gift of the Nile"
- Old Kingdom
- Khufu built the pyramids
- Hyksos
- Middle Kingdom Nile-Delta Region
- Hatshepsut
- First female "pharoah"
- Ramses II
- Pushed Egypt north Signed Treaty of Kadesh with Hittites after years of fighting
- Theocracy
- Egyptian religion No difference between state and church
- Hierogylphics
- First form of writing Egyptian
- Rosetta Stone
- Translated Egyptian writings
- Ostracizing
- Send someone to exile "Threat to Democracy"- too much power
- King Minos
- Mythical king of Crete Son of Zeus Judge of Dead
- Constitution of Lycurgus
- Changes in Spartan government non-monogamous marriages Newborns fit to live
- Solon
- Helped poor Council of 400 Let lower class into jury
- Draco
- Wrote down laws
- Cleisthenes
- All citizens vote in assembly Council of 500
- Pericles
- Expanded power of the assembly Periclean Age- Greece is the most powerful and wealthy nation
- Delian League
- Athenian allience Athens dominated Used force to keep city-states in the league
- Peloponnesian League
- Counter Delian League Spartan
- Peloponnesian War
- Athens- conquer a lot Sparta- demolish Athens before it gets too big Sparta wins.
- The Persian War
- Persian taxed Greeks Persian army was bigger Persia defeated at sea
- Hoplites
- Made up phalanx