Notes 1: Roman influence Flashcards
What were the gospels written in
Koine Greek
What tribe followed Ishmale
Modern Arab people
What tribe followed Isaac
Israelites (Jews)
Timeline of palestine (5pts)
- famine came to palestine (land promised to Abraham’s descendants)
- Jews went to Egypt to escape famine
- Egyptians enslaved Jews
- Jews escaped slavery
- God tells them not to treat anyone the way they were treated
Kingdom of Israel timeline (5 + 3a and 3b)
- Babylonians: King Neb
- Meads and Persians
3a. Alexander the great and the greeks
3b. Divided Greece (spilt between 4 generals) - Jewish revolt (150 AD to 60AD) Jewish independence against greco overlords through gorilla warfare
- Rome
Primary languages of the Greco-Roman world (2)
*Rome = Latin
*Greek = language of trade across empire
polytheism
multiple gods. Worship all gods in case you miss and offend one
patron gods/godesses
most significant god/goddess of where you live.
Patron goddess of Ephesus
Artemis: goddess of fertility and the hunt
Mystery religions
religions that were underground faiths. for ppl who could not afford the patron god/goddesses.
superstitions
strong beliefs that dictated actions
the oracle
would give a foreshadowing of what would happen in your life, for a price
class structure
important for way of life. Not really a strong middle class (< 10%)
slavery (6)
*30% of population.
*Mostly the same color/nationality of those enslaving them
*not based on idea of a slave not being human, but based on the winner and the loser
*slave word comes from slavic background (white people were slaves?)
*you could buy your freedom back
*slaves were given education and in many cases treated better than the free middle/lower class citizens
Military (6)
*offered ppl opportunity to gain citizenship or freed from slavery
*could rome free w/o proof of citizenship
*could not be publically humiliated w/o trial
*could not be crucified
*could appeal straight to caesar
*paid w/ salt (was rare and valuable)
