PerF mid term Flashcards
Ahura mazda
Good spirit
Polygamy
More than one wife
Darius
King of kings
Zoroaster
Religious profit
Ahriman
Evil spirit
Xerxes
Persian leader
10000 immortals
Immediately replaces the injured
Royal road
Stretches from susa to sardis
Bull leaping
Religious form of bull fighting
Labyrinth
Or difficult network of paths
Shrines
Sacred place of worship
Acropolis and polis
Fortified hill and city state
Agora
Opened market place
Aristocrates
Nobles
Oligarchy and democrat
Few people and all citezens
Triremes
Fast war ships
Pentathlon
Best all around athelet
Socratic method
Step by step at a final conclusion
Hypothesis
Possible explanation
Phalanx
Infantry formation
Soothsayer
People who can predict events
Omens
Signs of what to come
Catacombs
Tombs
Necropolis
Cemetary
Gladitorial games
Gladiator games
Municipal
City govt
Consuls
Administrators and military leaders
Veto
Say no
Tribunes
Government officials who protect the rights of plebeians
Legionaries
5,000 soldiers
Latifundas
Large estates
Dictator
Ruler
Triumverate
3 ppl with equal power
Tariff
Taxes
Domus
House
Inflation
Increased prices
Barter
Exchange goods without using money
Rule by divine right
Power by the gods
Parish
Each church
Diocese
Group of parishes
Bishop
Head of dioces
Priest
Head of parish
Archbishops
Most important bishops
Patriarchs
5 leading archbishops
Monastaries
Monk communities
Covents
Quarters where the monks lived
Abbot
Leader of monestarie
Mecca
Holy land
Pilgrams
Travelers to the religious shrine
Quran
Muslim scriptures
Pillars of faith
1 pray the creed 2 pray 5 times 3 giving to charity 4 fast (sun up to down) 5 make the hajj
Mosque
House of worship
Imam
Prayer leader
Zakah
Charity
Caliph
Successor
Vizier
Chief adviser
Myceneans
Came from russia
The minoans
Built ships grew grapes wheat abd barley
Sparta
Military state
Zeus
God of gods
Plato
Socrates student who writes
Socrates
Teacher and was killed for corrupting young minds
Olympics
Only men played , running was only event, men ran naked, it ended after Theodosius made Christianity legal
City states
Cities and surrounding territories
Parthenon
For athena built during the golden age of athens
Leonidus
Leader of the spartan 300
Marathon
Battle where greeks won
Thermoplylae
Where battle of 300 was
Euclid
Wrote geometry book fundamentals
Draco
Wrote a harsh code of law where death comes to all in fractions
Solon
Canceled all debt and divide into 4 social classes
Helot
Slave in sparta
Hoplites
Large infantry men
Delian league
Created to form alliance from any persian attack
Golden age of greece
Athens used all the money from the delian league making the economy flourish causing the peloponnesian war
Peloponnesian war
War where the greek cities kicked athens ass, athens lost due to war plaque and fatique
Cleistenes
Created the council of 500 to prep matters to present to the popular assembly
Athena
Born Out of Zeus’s head, killed best weaver of Athens and turned her into a spider
Aphrodite
Goddess of love and desire
Zoroaster believed what was the biggest sin and what did they do to the dead
Lying and vultures ate the dead
What was the royal road
It was a message route and it had 111 post and stetched from sardis to susa
Who found egypt
Cambyses
What was the royal mail
Neither rain or steal Noredark of the night will keep our Curriers from their appointed rounds
Describe knossos
It had roof has an entrance of the home it had priest kings it was polytheistic, sacred horns were made out of clay, the Minotaur was killed by Theseus the Minoans fell as well
What were olives made for
Lotion oil and fuel
How did the trojan war start
It started because a man stole another man’s wife and it ended with a Trojan horse carrying men inside infiltrating the city
Describe spartan life
There was no art, one of the largest great Pollis, citizens were equal, half citizens were other city states citizens
How many helots were in sparta
There were 7:1 the outnumbered there was always constant resistance
Whos spartas rival
Athens
Describe spartan society and customs
The week kids at birth would be killed this is called instant side kids ages 7 to 8 went to boot camp men 20 years of age to 30 years of age where soldiers men 30+ years of age go home and night to their wives 30 years plus to 60 had one meal a day with soldiers to go back home at age 13 kids would use swords
Describe greek warfare
They used iron weapons formed a phalanx and hoplites
Battle at marathon
Miliodies was the Athenian general who won the battle at Marathon Athens won the battle at marathon phidipedies ran 26 miles screaming Nike
Battle at thermopylae
Xerxes was the Persian leader Spartans guarded the pass with 300 men they lost Athens was destroyed phonecians was supposed to guard the back pass but they deserted out of fear
Themistocles
Greek naval commander
Perecles
Athens leader during golden age
Trireme
Holds 7000 ppl and battering ram was used to break ships for loot
Kufu
Ship
How do you get a tomb in sparta
A Spartan who dies in battle or a woman who dies in childbirth
Hoplon lamalar dory xiphos immortal armour
Bronze and wood sheild, armour, iron spear, sword used if dory was gone, and amour as thin as cards
Oracles at delphi
A sacred shrine
Why was thermopylae chosen for battle
Because it was a difficult and narrow place to fight
Sophist
Realist
Aristotle
Platos student and science student
Describe doric ionic corinth
First one is playing second has scrolls third has leaves
Alexander the great
Conqured most if the know world, defeated persians, spread hellenism,
Archimedes
Mathematicians
Aristarchos
Hellenistic theory
Erutosthenes
Circumference of world
Story of romulus and remus
Romulus is thrown into the Tiber river he is found by shewolf he kills how Amulius settles in Rome kills brother
Latins
Come from north of alps
Etruscans
Come from asian minor
Punic wars
- Rome takes sicily, sardinia, corsica from carthage
- Hannible leads his troops through spain and take spanish
- Carthage is burned, enslaved and soil is salted
Who lead the slave revolt
Sparticus
Triumvirates
- Julius Caesar, pompey, crasus
2, marc antony, lepidus, ocvtavian(changed his name to caesar agustus) agustus = majestic one
Edict of milan
Official decloration
What did 1.Constantine and 2.Theodosius do?
- made christianity legal
2. made christianity the official religion
Where did ostrogoth, visigoths, franks, vandals and hans come from
1+2 sweden
- Germany
- East europe
- Asia minor
Muhammad was who
A prophet married kadijah (15yrs older than him) spread monotheism, influenced by christians and jews The angel Gabriel tells him to write koran (holy book)
Mecca was
Holy city
Masque
House if worship
Minnerets
Tall slender towers
Sunnis
Muhammeds followers
Jihad
Holy wars
Arab inventions
Algebra , medicine, ashtrolobes
Did islam picture god?
No