Mid term Flashcards
In what ways is history subjective
Historians must have value judgements
Historians are more than Croniclers
Different historians have different perspectives
In what ways is history objective
real events happened by real causes and motives
The god over all history had immediate knowledge
Gods verbal revelation
What rescues christianity from absolute subjectivity
God’s verbal revelation gives an objective metanarrative
Elements of a christian approach to history
incorporate elements from other approaches to history
orientation around a biblical timeline
scriptual value system
special attention to God’s people in history.
Sargon of akkadian
First military dictator
Significance of hammarabi’s code
Rule of law coming together
Details of the contribution of the hebrews
Monotheism
law
kingship and government
politics
view of man
private property
history
Hebrew law
equal justice for all
Sin against God and others must be punished
compassion for the poor and needy
Hebrew view of politics
Publicly elected magistracies
Popular consent of the governed
Hebrew view ofhistory
LDF
Linear view of history
design and purpose is history
Future orientation of Jesus
babylonians in biblical history
Conquerors of the southern kingdom
Contributions of the persians
roads and postal services, popularized coin making, satraps
minoan accomplishments and culture
First to build a sea empire to trade
technologically advanced
Linear A language
Artistic
The greek alphabet and the writings of homer
Writings disapear
population declines
alphabet developed
Homer’s writings mark the end of the dark ages
Politics and life in Archiac Greek city states
Polis: Establishment of colonies in order to support the population in the harsh climate of soil
presocratic
concerned with the nature of the universe
Hellenic identity
Common identity, language, religion, and enjoyment of things
Life in athens
democratic state with flourishing population
Draco Athens
Coded law
Solon Athens
removed Hereditary restrictions
Pisistratus Athens
Centralized power for self
Clesthenes athens
Finalized Greek Democracy
Ostrasism Athens
Election for voting, if they were not elected, they were sent to exile
Community in sparta
Militaristic absolute state
Family life in sparta
Marriage was only for the purpose of repopulatizatoin
What begins the classical age
The persian war
Battles of Marathos and thermopoly
Greeks won the marathon
300 brave spartans fought in thermopoly
age of pericles
Rebuilt athens after destruction and sparta became jelous
Peloponnesian war
sparta vs athens athens looses their independence
philip of macedon
Takes control over athens
Alexandar the great
takes control of athens later
Hellenistic period
division into 4 different kingdoms
period of decline
period of diffusion
remains a greek world
Political contributions of Greek
Addressing population issues
new system of affairs to the state
Plato believed that tyranny naturallu rises out of democracy
American founders assesments of greek politics
thomas jefferson thought is was onsense
john adams was dissapointed and discusted
Sophists
Skeptisism, believed debates were foolish, man is the measure of all things
Socrates
Sophists were foolish, plato was his biggest student
Archaic period writers
HOmer and hesiod
Classical period writers and writings
Aeschylus: Answered philisophical questions
Aristophanes: Western comedic theater
Greek Historians
Herodotus: Father of history
Thucydides: Pelopanisean war authorship
Contributions of pythagoras
Pythagorean theory
Contributions of Eulicid
Geometry
Archimedes
Calculated the value for pie, physics and other developments
Aristarchus
Sun is at the center of the universe
Eratosthenes
Calculated the circumference of the earth
hippocrates
Father of western medicine.
Founding of rome before the republic
Etruscans ruled over the romans
Three punic wars
First: Over sicily control, lasted 20 years, rome won against carthage
second: Hannibal and carthage hannibal and his elephants
three: Carthage is burned to the ground
BAttle of Cannae
Up and down the italian peninsula hannibal is defeated by Scipio
ScipioAfricanus
Attacks carthage directly and defeats them
The greek influence on the romans
Literature
Greek widely spoken
Greek religion
Grancchi
Senate had them killed, then the fall happened
Marius
Changed military to non social class
Sulla
Traditional limits on dictorial power were removed
Pompey
General who moved the army to rome and demanded to become council
The first triumvirate
Uniting political support, they granted caesar as council in order to get land or money
Brutus/ Death of caesar
Octavius accused him of being disloyal
Seized caesar and killed him
Agustus’ accomplishments and the pax romana
- Sucessful centralization of power
- Peace and stability
- roman peace
Early emerors in roman republic
Tiberius, claudius and nero
Diocletian
Divides the empire into two administrative states
The sack of rome
First time rome lost power to foreign empires in 800 years
Polybuis and the government of the roman empire
Mixed republican givernment
sepparation of powers
checks and balacnes
Cicero
Development of natural law theory
Justinian
Body of law
Romans historians, statesmen, and poets
Historians: Polybuis, Livy, tactitus
states men: cicero: natural law theorist
