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Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean Sea
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Greek Civilization
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Seafaring culture who lived with a sense of security (absence of walls around palace)
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Minoan Civilization
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Where was the minoan civilization located
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Centered on the Palace of Minos, at Knossos on the island of Crete
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Which civilization was seafaring?
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minoan's
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the most famous frescoes in the palace at knossos
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bull leaping fresco
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Half man, half bull born of the union of Minos’ queen and a sacred white bull
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Minotaur
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may represent fertility goddess or cult like goddess
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Snake goddess
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The Athenian hero Theseus makes his way through the Minotaur’s maze to kill the monster, thus freeing Athens from its bondage to the Minoans.
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legend of minotaur
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Characteristics of the Mycenaean Civilization
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Militant and aggressive unlike Minoans
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constructed massive citadels that later generations thought were constructed by the Cyclops.
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Mycenaeans
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Around 1200 BCE, the Mycenaeans attacked-----------, a strong hold in the NW corner of Asia Minor
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troy
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The 10 year war between the mycenaeans and troy would provide the historical context for which 2 great epic poems
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Iliad and Odyssey
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Mycenaean civilization was destroyed by the
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Dorians
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What blind poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey
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Homer
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Aphrodite
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love and beauty
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Apollo
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sunlight, music
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Dionysus
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wine, vegetation
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Zeus
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king of gods, sky
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Hera
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queen of gods
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Heracles
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strength, courage
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nike
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victory
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Demeter
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Agriculture, vegetation
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Persephone
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Underworld
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After the Flood Ducalion and his wife repopulate the earth by throwing rocks over their shoulders
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Deucalion myth
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-Explanation of worldly seasons
-When things do not grow, Demeter sadly misses her daughter |
Demeter/Persephone myth
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Geographic conditions encouraged the growth of the
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Greek city states
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Greek city states were
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self governing provinces
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Cause of the persian war
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Initiated when Persia annexed the cities of Ionia
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ionians battle with persians
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battle of marathon
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•Armed dispute b/w rival city-states led by Athens and Sparta.
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Peloponnesian Wars
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Which war was between the athenian empire and sparta
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Peloponnesian Wars
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•Half century from 480 and 430 often called the most creative period in world history.
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Golden age
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Dramatic actions during the golden age assumed 2 principle forms
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comedy and tragedy
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The greatest tragedy ever written’
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Oedipus the King
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Tragedy occurs through actions that arouse sentiments of ----------in the audience
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pity and fear
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the object of study rather than worship
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nature
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Argued for natural explanations of the unknown
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greek philosopy
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Sought unifying substance of reality
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Naturalist Philosophers
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Father of Philosophy
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Thales
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Atomic Theory
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Leucuppus
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Change is the only constant
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Heraclitus
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Reality based in numerical order
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Pythagoras
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Shift the focus of philosophy from the study of the universe to the study of man
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Sophists
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Opposed the skeptical views of sophistry
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socrates
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Opposed the skeptical views of sophistry.
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Socrates
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socrates principle of inquiry
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know thy self
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How was socrates executed?
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Trial by death
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What were socrates circumstances of death
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subversive behavior, impiety, atheism,
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Socrates’ student; born in Athens during P. war
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Plato
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Founded the first school of philosophy, The Academy
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Plato
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proposes that all sensory objects are limitations of the forms (eternal truths), which, like the simplest mathematical equations are imperishable and forever true.
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Theory of forms
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illustrates some key theories in the teachings of plato such as idealism
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allegor of the cave
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Student of Plato
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aristotel
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Rejected Plato’s theory of Forms.
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aristotle
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Aristotle hypothesizes that happiness or -------- is teh only human value that might be considered a final goal
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the good life
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a method of inquiry dependent on direct experience or observation
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empirical method
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the middle ground between any two extremes of behavior
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the gold mean
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