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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

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