Humanities 1 Final

Gilgamesh

King of Uruk (Mesopotamia), epic about him

Abraham

founder of Judaism, hometown of Ur

Minoan

earliest green civ, lived on Crete,

Mycenaean

conquered Crete and more, militaristic

Homer

author of Iliad and odyssey, Homeric question

Herodotus

historian for pleasure

Thucydides

wrote History of the Peloponnesian War

Euclid

father of geometry

Archimedes

Greek mathematician

The Sophist

believed success was the key to happiness, traveling teachers

Socrates

technically a sophist, but did not hold to their values

Plato

first political philosopher

Aristotle

philosopher, agreed w/ participation in politics

Cynics

goal in life was Autarky, freedom= wanting nothing (so that you can't be disappointed)

Skeptics

same life goal as cynics, question everything

Stoics

Logos do your duty, leave everything else to fate, emotion is wasted energy

Epicureans

life goal is happiness, Hedonistic, pursue pleasure+ avoid pain

Patricians

upper class, wealthy landowners

Plebeians

lower class, artisans

Cicero

stoic philosopher, politician + lawyer, invented persuasive writing

Marcus Aurelius

stoic philosopher, death marked the end of the Pax Romana

Diocletian

Christian persecutor, tetrarchy

Constantine

converted to Christianity, made Roman Christian

Theodosius

Persecutes non-Christians, Massacre at Thessaloniki

Charlemagne

Holy Roman Emperor, Father of Europe

Confucius

philosopher who stressed precedent and tradition as truth

Tetrarchy

2 rulers in each half of Rome

Amor fati

the love of fate

3 parts of every polis

acropolis, agora, Chora

Epic poetry

long/ big story, usually covering many years

Lyric poetry

much shorter

Epistemology

study of knowledge

Major achievements of Greece

medicine, science, art/technique, humanism

Solomons death

cause for divided kingdom

Code of Hammurabi

first legal code

753 bc

founding of city of Rome

509 bc

founding of republic

31 bc

founding of empire

4/6 bc- AD 33

life of Christ

AD 117

peak of Rome

AD 476

fall of western Rome

Old Kingdom

first intermediate period of Egypt

Middle Kingdom

second intermediate period Egypt

New Kingdom

last period of Egypt

Paleolithic

humans spread, overlaps with ice age

Mesolithic

Agriculture

Neolithic

population boom, inventions

Age of Metals

overlaps neolithic, Copper, Bronze, Iron

Turn against Rome

political instability, economic crisis, Christian growth

Why did New Kingdom of Egypt end

No source of iron

East/ West split

disagreeance with church tradition (should priests get married? Icons?)