Humanities Unit 2 Review

What is Colosseum?

known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is the largest ancient amphitheater ever built, a massive oval arena in Rome, Italy, famous for hosting gladiatorial contests, animal hunts, and public spectacles for centuries, serving as a powerful symbol of Roman engineering and entertainment

What is the Pax Romana?

• Era of peace and stability

• Active commercial contact

• Artistic and literary productivity

• Public works projects

• Birth of Christianity

What is the Pantheon?

• Landmark that inspired more works of architecture than any other in Creco-Roman history

• Temple to seven planetary deities

• observes classical principles of symmetry and harmony

Why did the Roman Empire Collapse?

• Exact causes of fifth-century C.E collapse of the Roman Empire is unknown

• Likely a slow decline caused by combination of internal circumstances

• Difficulties governing huge empire

• Decline of slave trade

• Increasing gap between rich and poor

• Between 335 and 385, twenty-six emperors ruled Rome(only one died naturally)

• In 476. empire fell

Who is Odysseus?

• Ulysses for the Romans

• Protagonist of the epic poem

• Hero from the Trojan War

• Narrates his effort to return to his hime anf family and reassumme his authority as King of Ithaca

How can we explain the success of the Roman Empire?

• Romans absorbed cultural elements and innovations from other civilzations

• Roman innovations in Law, Architecture, Warfare led to stability

Why is Herodotus considered the “father of history”?

• Writer of The Persian Wars

• World’s first major work in prose

• Laid basis for historical method

• Recorded Batles of Marathon, Thermophylae, and how the Greeks defeated the Persian at Salamis

Who are Greek Gods?

• Orginated in Crete and Mycenae

• Family of immortals who intervened in the lives of humans

• lived atop Mount Olympus

• Zesus. the sky god, and his wife Hera, the ruling deities

• Theogony(The Birth of the Gods), Hesiod

• No scared scripture or clear principles of morality

What is the lliad?