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History

History

Is not the past, but the study, inquiry, investigation, or research of the past using written records.

Herodotus

Father of History

Paleolithic

Old stone, hunting and food gathering

Neolithic

New stone, farming villages and herding cultures

Artifact

Anything made by human hands.

3000 BC (5 developments)

-History is the study, research, inquiry, or investigation of the past using written records

-Well-regulated armies

-Civilization: the emergence of cities

-Bronze tools & weapons

-Specialized division of labor

Mesopotamia

Land between two rivers; Tigris, Euphrades

Inventors of democracy

Greeks

Inventors of the republic

Romans

Polis

Greek city-state

Bronze Age

3000 BC

Thespis

Father of Theater

Sophocles

Greek playwright; writer of Theban trilogy

Themes in Greek drama

The question of duty, divine justice & punishment

Philosophy (def., 3 philosophers)

-The love of wisdom

-Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Cleisthenes

Father of Democracy

Euclid

Father of Geometry

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Eratosthenes

Calculated circumference of Earth

Olympics

Festival honoring Zeus, 776 BC, Olympia

Romulus

Founder of Rome

Romulus Augustulus

Last Emperor of Rome

Germanic Tribes

Franks, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Angles & Saxons, Lombards

AD 476

Fall of the Roman Empire, end of Ancient Period, beginning of Medieval period

Beowulf

Anglo-saxon poem

Dante

The Divine Comedy; the Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise

Chaucer

Last great writer of Middle Ages; Canterbury Tales

St. Benedict

Father of Western Monasticism

3 Monastic Vows

Chastity, poverty, obedience

-isms

A belief, practice, or philosophy

Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologicae; highest study of God

Medieval universities

Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Salerno

Seven Liberal Arts

Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric

Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry

Trivium

Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric

Quadrivium

Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy, Geometry

Scholasticism

Quastio, Disputatio, Sentenia. The belief, practice, or philosophy in the school.

Roger Bacon

Medieval scientist

Romance Languages

French, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, Italian

AD 1400

Italian Renaissance, end of Medieval period, beginning of Modern period

Modern Period events

-Italian Renaissance (1400-1530s)

-Protestant Reformation (October 31, 1517)

-Voyages of Discovery (1405-1522)

-Scientific Revolution (1543-1687)

Renaissance humanists

The intellectual elite desired to bring back the Classical Age.

Gregorian Chant

Monophonic song sung by monks in monasteries. (Pope Gregory)

Canon Law

Church law