Gen Ed Midterm

normal school

a school or college for the training of teachers.

The Talented Tenth

• Du Bois

• Refers to the one in ten Black men that have cultivated the ability to become leaders of the Black community by acquiring a college education, writing books, and becoming directly involved in social change

Redlining

a discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity

Pope Nicholas V issues Discovery Doctrine

1452

First African slaves brought to Jamestown

1619

Slave trade abolished in England

1807 pt1

Transatlantic slave trade made illegal

1807 pt2

Nat Turner Rebellion

1831

Oberlin admits black students

1835

Amistad trial

1841

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Morril Act

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Ku Klux Klan established

1865

Atlanta Compromise

1895

The Birth of a Nation

1915

Brown v Board of Education

1954

Birmingham Campaign

1963

Martin Luther King assassinated

1968

Herodotus (author)

The Persian War

Tacitus (author)

Germania

Homer (author)

Iliad

Columella (author)

De Re Rustica(on agriculture)

Plutarch (author)

Life of Julius Caesar

Diodorus of Sicily (author)

Library

Strabo (author)

Geography

Aristotle (author)

Politics

Ovid (author)

Metamorphoses

Vergil (author)

Aeneid

Horace (author)

Odes, Epistles

Catullus (author)

Lyric Poems

Salvian (author)

On the Government of God

Justinian (author)

Digest

Xenophon (author)

Ways and Means

Juvenal (author)

Satires

ethnos

people/ethnic group/race

gens (gentis)

social group or clan.

natio

nation

physis

• nature

• natural appearance

nomos

law/customs

periplus

• voyage/sailing around

• An ancient Greek term referring to a navigational guide or manual used by sailors to navigate coastlines and trade routes.

seisactheia

*reforms by Solon in ancient Athens. Cancelled debts, freed debt slaves, and redistributed land. Aimed to alleviate social and economic inequality.

servus

slave/servant

familia

The basic unit of society, consisting of parents and their children, bound by blood or marriage. It provides emotional support, education, and socialization.

manumissio

Legal process in ancient Rome where a slave is granted freedom by their owner.

libertinus

of a freedman

latifundia

large commodity-generating farms

• roman estate of agriculture export

agape

universal love, such as the love for strangers, nature, or God

eros

romantic love-passionate, short-lived relationships

philia

A friendly love; a love between friends and for family

elegy

a sad or mournful poem

dactylic hexameter

a line or rhythm in poetry with six stressed syllables) used in ancient Greek poetry

• ex: Iliad

Aethiopia

a geographical term in classical documents in reference to the upper Nile region, also known as Ethiopia

• subsaharan Africa

Solon

• Archon of Athens

• freed all Athenian debt-slaves

• philosopher and poet for fairness

Aesop

• ancient Greek writer who wrote fables

  • “the fox and the grapes”

  • “the tortoise and the hare”

Terence

• Roman playwright/comic poet

Epictetus

• Greek Stoic philosopher

• born into slavery

• said it was possible for a slave to live without a master

Cato the Elder

• a Roman Senator, solider, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization

• first Latin prose writer of importance

Maecenas

• Roman diplomat and counsellor to the Roman Emperor Augustus

• a friend and politcal advisor to Octavian

• a wealthy patron to Augustan poets like Horace and Virgil

Niobe

• mournful woman; from Niobe, whose children were slain by Apollo and Artemis because of her bragging; the gods pitied her and turned her into a rock that was always wet from weeping

Hannibal

• the general who led the Carthaginian military campaign against Rome in the Second Punic War

• one of the greatest military leaders in history with strategic militant plans for battlefield

Jugurtha

king of Numidia

• who struggled to free his North African kingdom from Roman rule

Massinissa

• Masinissa's aim was to build a strong and unified state from the seminomadic Numidian tribes. To this end he introduced Carthaginian agricultural techniques and forced many Numidians to settle as peasant farmers.

• ancient Numidian king best known for leading a federation of Massylii Berber tribes during the Second Punic War, ultimately uniting them into a kingdom that became a major regional power in North Africa.

Sophonisba

a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, and the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco.

Maciste

Heracles like character in Cabiria - actor uses blackface

Medea

mythic figure, namesake for tragedies by Euripides and Seneca)

Atalanta

• chose wealth (golden apples) over classical education
  -"Of the Wings of Atalanta" by W.E.B DuBois, "Atalanta & Hippomenes" by Ovid

• In Greek mythology, she was a huntress who promised to marry any man who could outrun her in a footrace. She was defeated by Hippomenes, who threw three golden apples to distract her as she ran. She is the archetype of speed, strength, and daring foiled by a trick of the intellect.

Socrates

was a classical Greek philosopher, credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
-the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought

Heraclitus

• a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)

• Persian Empire

Quo Vadis (film)

1913

Cabiria (film)

1914

The Birth of a Nation(film)

1915

Intolerance(film)

1916

David Walker

Appeal

• He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt

Anna Julia Cooper

A Voice from the South

• African American scholar was known for covering issues of race and gender in the America south in the late 1800s. She also argued men should not fear women attaining more education.

Pauline Hopkins

Counting Forces

• was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes.

Booker T. Washington

• former slave

• established Tuskegee institute

• Up from Slavery

W.E.B Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folks

• 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, helped create NAACP in 1910. Wanted social and political integration as well as higher education for 10% of African Americans-what he called a "Talented Tenth".

Carter Woodson

The Journal of Negro History

Countee Cullen

The Medea

• an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. There were different occurrences that he had relationships with other men, although his sexuality was never confirmed

Richard Wright

Native Son

• African American author who wrote about racial oppression
  His novels included Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945)
  *He joined the Communist Party for a brief time in the early 1930s

Martin Luther King

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Eldridge Cleaver

Soul on Ice

Frank Snowden

Blacks in Antiquity

• an American professor emeritus of classics at Howard University, best known for his study of black people in classical antiquity.

James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

• an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century North America.

King Philip’s War

It was the Native-American's last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England

chattel slavery

traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as commodities

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 in the US south

normal school

The talented Tenth

Great Migration

the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970 to escape segregation

Redlining

KKK

hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda

Civil rights movement

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

Institute for Colored Youth

Founded in 1837 became Cheyney University in 1854

• founded by richard humphreys

• oldest trade school

American Missionary Association

the main purpose of the organization was abolition of slavery, education of African Americans, promotion of racial equality, and spreading Christian values.

Freedman’s Bureau

the bureau's focus was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools, during the reconstruction south.

Howard University

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

• Frank Snowden