Iron Age Flashcards
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Iron age- grossomodo
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- Pre-Classic: Hebrews, Persian Zorostrarians, Ancient Rome
- Classic: Roman kingdom
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Medieval period
- Renaissance
- Scientific revolution
- Naturalism/industrial/social revolutions
- Pragmatism/materialism/sexual revolution
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Athens & the beginning of Classic Greece
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(1) Since 800 BC. Athens = center of arts; Pottery, sculpture, poetry, theater, Acropolis, Parthenon
(2) Athletic games in Olympia since 776 BC.
(3) Athenians beat Persian invaders at Marathon and Thermopylae in 490 BC + Athens’ victory in the sea battle at Salamis
⇒ The beginning of Classic Greece
3
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Mythology: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
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(1) For centuries, the oral tradition of storytelling resulted The Illiad the The Odyssey (Homer).
(2) Anthropomorphic gods and goddesses
(3) In the mythology, projection of the belief that human behaviour is in hands of gods.