CWC - Unit One Exam Study Flashcards
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Alexander the Great - Who
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Macedonian King
Student of Aristotle
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Alexander the Great - When
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356 - 323 BCE
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Alexander the Great - Where
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Greece
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Alexander the Great - Significance
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Conquered lands from Greece and Egypt to India
Imparted Greek ideas and cultures in the lands he conquered
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Athenian Democracy - What
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the way Greeks voted as an assembly for laws
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Athenian Democracy - When
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400’s B.C.
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Athenian Democracy - Where
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Athens, Greece
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Athenian Democracy - Significance
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This way of voting had a strong influence on governments that followed
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Aristotle - Who
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student of Plato and a Greek philosopher
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Aristotle - When
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300s BC
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Aristotle - Where
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Athens
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Aristotle - Significance
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difference from Plato in that he thought studying the world was an important and worthwhile task.
He thought that form and matter were inseparable, therefore research of matter and earthly things was the way in which knowledge could be gained
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Plato - Who
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Greek Philosopher
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Plato - When
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428 - 347 BC
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Plato - Where
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Athens, Greece
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Plato - Significance
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Was a student of Socrates, he shared a lot of Socrates’ teachings,
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Socrates - Who
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Ancient Greek Philosopher
Taught Plato
a sophist
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Socrates - When
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469 - 399 BC
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Socrates - Where
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Athens, Greece
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Socrates - Significance
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Pursuit of truth and wisdom
Developed the Socratic Method (truth through questions)
Believed that real knowledge is found within
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Pericles
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“first citizen of Athens”
5th century BC
Athenian politician and statesmen
responsible for the Parthenon
Believed in equality before the law
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Roman Republic
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the Roman government
500 - 200s BC
consisted of 3 decision making groups
foundation for lots of governments today, including the US
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Philosophy
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“love of wisdom”
study of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc
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Sophists
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a group of philosophical teachers
mainly in Athens
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"Doctrine of the Mean"
Theory of Virtue
4th Century
from Aristotle
the mean between excess and deficiency
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Polis
a Greek city-state
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Hellenization
the influence of Greek culture across the known world
323 - 31 BC
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Logos
logic or reasoning
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Tripartite Soul
Plato's three parts of the soul -- reason, spirit, and appetite
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Homer - Who
Greek poet
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Homer - When
700 BC
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Homer - Where
Greece
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Homer - Significance
wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
wrote literature that inspired and exemplified Greek values of heroism and honor into young Greeks as they were educated
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Maccabean Revolt - What
a revolt led by the Maccabean's for Jewish people
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Maccabean Revolt - When
167 - 142 BC
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Maccabean Revolt - Where
Israel
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Maccabean Revolt - Significance
Revolt by Jewish people who didn't want to conform to Hellenization
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Augustus Caesar - Who
Julius Caesar's nephew, adopted son
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Augustus Caesar - When
31 BC - 14 AD
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Augustus Caesar - Where
Rome
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Augustus Caesar - Significance
Roman ruler after Julius Caesar's death
Restored the Roman Republic, stabilized them for over 400 years
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Christian Apologists - Who
Christians who made intellectual arguments for their faith
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Christian Apologists - When
2nd Century AD
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Christian Apologists - Significance
interact with culture
ex: Justin Martyr
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Gnostics - Who
religious group that believe Christ descended into Jesus
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Gnostics - When
2nd Century AD
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Gnostics - Significance
Matter was evil, therefor Jesus couldn't be God.
Christ + Wisdom decended into Jesus
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Tertullian - Who
Lawyer who sought to make Christianity reasonable to Roman officials
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Tertullian - When
155 - 220 AD
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Tertullian - Where
Rome
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Tertullian - Significance
Warn Christians against heretics
Don't conform faith to philosophy
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Civil Religion
United religion of a country
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Monotheism
Jewish belief of one God
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Marcion
drafted the first canon, exclude the OT and Jewish writings in the NT
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Judaism
the monotheistic religion adhered to by God's chosen people
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Roman Empire
27 - 395 AD
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Justin Martyr
Mid 2nd Century AD
Sought common ground between Christianity and Greek philosophy
Defended Christianity in terms his Greek audience would understand
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Anthony - Who
a prosperous peasant who went to the desert to live a life for Christ and pursue holiness
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Anthony - When
251 - 356 AD
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Anthony - Where
Egypt
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Anthony - Significance
Followed Jesus intructions, gave up himself and his desires to go into the desert as a sacrifice
Stressed the importance of suffering for God
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Constantine - Who
first Christian emperor of Rome
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Constantine - When
272 - 337 AD
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Constantine - Where
Rome
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Constantine - Significance
Legalized Christianity
Founded Constantinople
Battle at Milvian Bridge (312 AD)
Grew Christianity rapidly throughout Rome
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Perpetua - Who
a Martyr, died for her faith
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Perpetua - When
182 - 203 AD
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Perpetua - Where
Carthage
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Perpetua - Significance
Followed Jesus' instructions, gave up her own life for the sake of her faith
Was loyal to God over her father and state
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Augustine - Who
Professor of Rhetoric, Bishop of Hippo
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Augustine - When
400 AD
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Augustine - Where
North Africa, Italy
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Augustine - Significance
Spent his life searching for truth and justice
Had a sinful youth
Had 4 conversions (Manichaeism > Christian Neoplatonism > Heart conversion to Christianity > Theological Conversion)
Wrote Confessions
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Donatism - What
a belief by a group of North African Christians, said the validity of sacraments was based on the priests' holiness
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Donatism - When
400 AD
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Donatism - Where
North Africa
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Donatism - Significance
Augustine opposes donatism, he says that sacraments are from and about God, rather than the priest performing them.
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Pelagius - Who
a man who debated with Augustine over Original sin
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Pelagius - When
about 400 AD
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Pelagius - Where
Rome & North Africa
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Pelagius - Significance
He was declared a heretic for his views on original sin. He believed that original sin wasn't a thing because we were made in Jesus' image and we should have the opportunity to live up to goodness.
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Paterfamilias
Males are the head of the family
The dominant male of the Roman family had legal power to control marriages and had power over females
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Edict of Milan
AD 313
Christianity officially made legal
Milan (Roman Empire)
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Council of Nicea
325 AD
defined that Jesus and God are eternal and that Jesus wasn't created
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Confessions
a book by Augustine about his sinful youth and his conversions
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"Problem of Evil"
If God is all good created everything, then where does evil come from and why?
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Great Persecution
Under pressure by Galerius, Diocletian begins to persecute Christians
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Arianism
Anti-Holy Trinity, believed that Jesus was created
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Monasticism
a life lived separate from the world, for Christ
Practiced by St Anthony
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Original Sin
That we today are affected by Adam and Eve's sin
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Manichaeism
Taught dualistic cosmology, the balance between good and evil
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City of God - What
A writing by Augustine expressing Christian philosophy of government and history
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City of God - When
400 AD
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City of God - Where
Written by Augustine who lived North Africa and Italy
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City of God - Significance
Augustine's writing on how the Christians should live within a pagan world, influencing the world and not becoming it
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Fall of Western Roman Empire - What
Romulus Augustus surrenders crown to Odoacer
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Fall of Western Roman Empire - When
AD 476
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Fall of Western Roman Empire - Where
Rome
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Fall of Western Roman Empire - Significance
It was the biggest empire in the world at the time
Had a lot of influence on the rest of the world
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Vandals
band of Germanic arian christians in Spain
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Byzantine Empire
Eastern Romans
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Just War
a doctrine that justified when war was morally accepted
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Justinian
Byzantine Emperor (AD 527 - 565)
Sought to revive Roman Empire
Wanted a Christianized Pax Romana
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Pacifism
any war or violence is unjust
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Unit 1 Timeline Order & Years
1. 700 BC Homer
2. 450s BC Sophocles & Socrates
3. 400 BC Plato
4. 350 BC Aristotle & Alexander the Great
5. 167 - 160 BC Maccabean Revolt
6. 1 AD Augustus Caesar, Jesus, & Paul
7. 2nd Cent AD Gnosticism & "Letter to Diognetus"
8. Late 2nd Century AD Tertullian
9. 200 AD Perpetua & Felicitas
10. 300 AD Anthony
11. 400 AD Augustine of Hippo
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"For there's no benefit in frigid tears. That's the way the gods have spun the threads for wretched mortal men,"
Homer - Iliad
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Unit 1 Map
RAthCo / CaAJ
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"mortal override the gods"
"We must obey whatever man the city puts in charge,"
Sophocles - Antigone
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"school of Hellas"
"strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"
Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
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"to be valued higher and holier far than mother or father"
Plato - Crito
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"principal of reason, and the two subject ones of spirit and desire"
Plato - Tripartite Soul
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"parent of light and of the lord of light"
Plato - Allegory of the Cave
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"state is creation of nature"
Aristotle - Politics
114
"lying in a mean"
Aristotle - Doctrine of the Mean
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"Gentile"
Maccabees
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"Christ, united with Wisdom"
Gnostics
117
"Greek and Barbarian cities"
"soul, body, Christians"
Letter to Diognetus
118
"What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"
Tertullian
119
"So I cannot be called anything else, except what I am, a Christian."
Perpetua and Felicitas
120
"I will ever be a succor to you, and will make your name known everywhere."
Anthony
121
"'Pick it up, read it; pick it up, read it"
"boy or girl"
Augustine - Confessions
122
"2 cities, 2 loves"
Augustine - City of God
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"Peace/War"
Augustine - Letter to Count Boniface
