Infiataide Flashcards
Dawn of Settlement
Farming/agriculture/cultivation agrarian ideology became source of life & reason for prosperity
Laid foundation for civilization – social classes, religious figures, militaries, politicians, thinkers, etc.
As populations grew,
civilizations needed more space, food, farmland for self-sufficiency & dominance
As population grew it led too
Led to acts of violence & war – as civilizations expanded, others destroyed & enslaved by victors
Hesiod
- 1st connected cultivation, gender, “race,” & extinction
- Wrote about sturdy farmer, devious woman, deluded trader
*agrarian lifestyle created prejudice against trade, travel, & women
An agrarian society,
-or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.
Ancient Sparta
Aggressive, war-oriented nation-state
-centered on loyalty to state & military service
Spartan men devoted
lives to military service, lived communally
Spartan boys entered
Agoge - sponsored education, military training & socialization program
—-Emphasized obedience, endurance, courage & self-control
age 7
Divided into 3 main groups:
Spartans/Spartiates (full citizens); Helots (serfs/slaves); Perioeci (not slaves or citizens)
Helots
captured/enslaved by Spartans, worked as farmers/laborers
—- Helots outnumbered Spartans, frequently treated brutally,
—-Helots were originally free Greeks that the Spartans had defeated in battle, and subsequently enslaved.
—-manual labor, wet nurses
—–partans legally allowed to kill Helots for any number of reasons – too small, too fit,
Krypteia:
Rite of passage for young boys becoming soldiers – a group would hunt down, sneak up on, & brutally murder a helot as proof of readiness for military
Only ___Spartans were full citizens
10,000
Ranking
Spartains ->Inferiors-> Helots
Spartians –> general population
Inferiors–> Lost of citizenship wore special clothes and were avoided
Helots–>Basically slaves
Peloponnesian War
- 27-year war b/w Athens & Sparta
Sparta won, but other victims stemmed from fighting
The Melian Dialogue”
Athens targeted Melos for not choosing a side in the war
* Athens knew Melians “weak” & “inferior” compared to them
* Melos refused Athens’ offer to ally w/ them & pay tribute
* Athens invaded island, forced Melians to surrender
* Killed 1,500 Melian men, sold women & children into slavery
The Punic Wars
–3 wars fought between Rome and Carthage for dominance of Mediterranean,
–Rome forced treaty on them
–Carthage agreed no war
–Rome disarm military of all weapons & armor
– Rome feared Carthage would regain strength & wage war again
–they lit the city of Carthage on fire. The city held around 100,000 to 200,000 people that most likely died in the fire. The survivors of the fire( around 30,000-50,000 people) were then sold as enslaved people.
Cato the Elder
–Former military leader & politician
– Insisted on Roman military domination
– Viewed Carthage as threat to Rome after seeing its recovery from 2nd war
Impact Within ROman empire
Wanted to purify Rome of any outside or inferior influence
- Expelled Jews from Rome
- Restricted & objectified women
Infanticide in the Ancient World
Many ancient societies often practiced Infanticide – killing of unwanted babies – for a # of reasons, most commonly due to poverty & pop. control
–Female infanticide more common – males considered more valuable in patriarchal societies
Many ancient societies didn’t consider newborns “human” until __months old
six
Infanticide legal & encouraged as a way of
cleansing society of “birth defects,” “weakness”
Natural Slavery
Term coined by Greek philosopher Aristotle
Ancient World set precedent (standard) for
genocide & provided examples for others to use in future
Natural Slavery
Idea that some groups naturally fit to be slaves while others naturally fit to be masters to maintain social order, give purpose to slaves’ lives
Map and how it connects to gencoide
Lol?
Genocide in the ancient world connects to today
genocide in the aniecne tworld made the world today
-Devalue life
-View women as less then male
Infaticide in Modern day
Chinses rule stopped in 2015/2016
Middle east and south asia
Honor killings
