CLCV 224 Exam 1 terms

Important dates to memorize

Pope Nicholas V issues Discovery Doctrine

1452

First African Slaves brought to Jamestown

1619

Slave trade abolished in England

1807

Transatlantic Slave trade made illegal

1807

Nat Turner Rebellion

1831

Oberlin admits black students

1835

Amistad Trial

1841

Uncle Tom's Cabin

(1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict.

Morill Act

(1862) This legislation set aside public land in each state to be used for building colleges.

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

KKK established

1865

Atlanta Compromise

(1895) address by Booker T. Washington that urged whites and African Americans to work together for the progress of all. Delivered at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, the speech was widely interpreted as approving racial segregation.

The Birth of a Nation

(1915) First full length classic. glorified the KKK of reconruction days and defamed both blacks and Northern carpetbaggers

Brown vs. Board of education

(1953) Separate but equal

Birmingham Campaign

(1963) Ends segregation in City, noted for images of violence against nonviolent protesters

Martin Luther King assassinated

1968

Ancient Authors and Their Works

Herodotus

The Persian War

Tacticus

Germania

Homer

Illiad

Columella

De Re Rustica

Plutarch

Life of Julius Caesar

Diodorus of Sicily

Library

Strabo

Geography

Aristotle

Politics

Ovid

Metamorphoses

Vergil

Aeneid

Horace

Odes, Epistles

Catullus

Lyric Poems

Salvian

On the Government of God

Justinian

Digest

Xenophon

Ways and Means

Juvenal

Satires

Other Ancient Names

Epictetus

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome

Cato the Elder

a Roman soldier, senator and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization.[1] He was the first to write history in Latin

Maecenas

Political advisor to Octavian, who later reigned as Augustus. Important patron for Horace and Virgil

Niobe

Antigone references Niobe, a former Queen of Thebes that turned her into a tear-shedding, stone column because of her ego. Antigone feels she will die in isolation, like Niobe, without anyone to mourn her; however, the chorus tries to tell her she should feel powerful, like a goddess, not weak

Hannibal

Hannibal is a great (North) African general who leads Carthaginian troops. Enemy of Rome.

Jugurtha

King of Numidia who struggled to free his North African Kingdom from Roman rule

Massinissa

First King of Numidia. Fought in Second Punic War against Romans as an ally of Carthage and then switched sides.

Sophonisba

A Carthaginian noblewoman who held influence over the Numidian political landscape, convincing king Syphax to change sides during the war, and later, in an act that became legendary, she poisoned herself rather than be humiliated in a Roman triumph.

Maciste

Movie character depicted in black face. He is usually depicted as a Hercules-like figure, utilizing his massive strength to achieve heroic feats that ordinary men cannot

Medea

Wife of Jason, he falls in love with someone else, her revenge is to kill her own children.

Atalanta

Huntress who raced men for marriage. Fell for the golden apple trick. Cursed by Aphrodite because the couple did not give her credit

Socrates

Most famous Greek philosopher. Sentenced to death by hemlock. Took it willingly.

Heraclitus

Sad, misanthropic Greek philosopher

Solon

Athenian who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.[3][4][5] He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defense of his constitutional reform.

Aesop

Black African from Ethiopia. Slave who was freed because of his intellect.

Terence

A Roman playwright of comedies. Brought to Rome as a slave, educated and later on, impressed his master with his abilities, was freed. ___ apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.

Greek and Latin Terms

ethnos

A nation/people group who share common culture and custom

gens(gentis)

a group of families sharing a common name and ancestors

natio

Latin for "birth", "origin", "breed", "species", "tribe"

physis

nature

nomos

law, custom, convention

periplus

A manuscript document that lists ports and coastal landmarks

Seisachtheia

a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon ("shaking off of burdens")

familia

A comprehensive household unit/ anyone living under the same roof

latifundia

A latifundium is a very extensive parcel of privately owned land

libertinus

a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a freethinker in religious matters. a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.

servus

Slave or servant

manumissio

The act of an owner freeing his/her slaves

agape

Universal love

eros

Erotic love

philia

Friendly love

elegy

a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

dactylic hexameter

A six-foot line of verse in ancient Greek and Latin poetry

Aethiopia

Greek for Ethiopian

Modern Terms

King Philips's War

(1675) A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion.

chattel slavery

Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person.

Middle Passage

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Jim Crow

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites. White entertainer in 1830's and 40's.

normal school

A school for training teachers

The Talented Tenth

According to W. E. B. DuBois, the ten percent of the black population that had the talent to bring respect and equality to all blacks

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Redlining

A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. The practice derived its name from the red lines depicted on cadastral maps used by real estate agents and developers. Today, redlining is officially illegal.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

Civil Rights Movement

A movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens

Organizations & Institutions

American Missionary Association

a Protestant organization founded in 1846 that worked to abolish slavery and promote racial equality through Christian values and education

Freedmen's Bureau

a U.S. government agency established in 1865 to provide assistance to formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States after the Civil War

Howard University

One of the first African American Colleges, it was established in Washington D.C

Tuskegee University

Center for African American education, emphasized vocational, practical education, believed approach was for self reliance. Founded by Booker T. Washington

Atlanta University

One of the FIRST colleges to offer teacher-training programs for African-Americans, attended by W. E. B. Du Bois where he published many works like "The Talented Tenth"

Early Silent Films

Quo Vadis

(1913) Returning from a military campaign abroad, General Marcus Vinicius discovers that Christianity has taken hold of Rome. Vinicius falls in love with and tries to win over Lygia, a Christian. Lygia is reluctant due to their differing beliefs. Complicating matters is the crazed Emperor Nero, who blames the Christians for his own burning of Rome, beginning a wave of persecution.

Cabiria

(1914) Young Sicilian girl Cabiria and her nurse, Croessa, survive a devastating volcanic eruption, only to be taken by Phoenicians to Carthage. As the second of the Punic Wars rages between Carthage and Rome, the pair is sold into slavery, and Cabiria is intended as an offering to the god Moloch and the child-eating statue Kronos. Croessa convinces Roman Fulvius Axilla to rescue Cabiria, yet afterward the girl remains in slavery for another decade.

The Birth of a Nation

(1915) Explicitly racist

Intolerance

1916

Important Scholars, Writers, and Activists

Frank Snowden

first black Classicist, Harvard Ph.D., Blacks in Antiquity, Color Prejudice. Racial prejudice doesn't exist in ancient society. Findings are accepted by scholars

Moses Finley

The ancient economy

Caleb Cheeshateaumauk

(B+) The first American Indian to graduate from Harvard University.

Benjamin Larnell

(A) Extraordinary Latin poet, good Greek poet. Writes about one of Aesop's Fables. Hungry fox sneaks into barn to eat food, must be skinny enough to leave. Died in 1714 two years before his graduating class. Last known student of Harvard Indian College

Phillis Wheatley

American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the United States