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Plato

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The second of the three moral philosophers, student of Socrates, had something to say about everything, found absolute truth in concepts such as love and justice, important to education and literature, very popular, starts an academy where he teaches, republic

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The last of the three moral philosophers, absolute truth found in senses/physical/nature, student of Plato, teacher to Alexander who introduces his ideas to the world

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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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Father of medicine, believed diseases had natural causes and natural cures, believed physicians should keep detailed records

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Air, water, earth, fire, are the 4 elements that have to be kept in balance

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Astronomer, heliocentric theory that earth and planets go around the sun, huge truth about universe

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Mathematician that came up with trigonometry, calculated solar and lunar eclipses

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Developed calculus and pie

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Map maker, calculated slope and size of earth (only off about a 10th and of 1%)

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Developed anatomy, asked how does the body work, dissected prisoners to see where everything was

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This is the battle where the Athenian army didn't get help from those around them and had 1/3 the size of the Persian army but they were still able to defeat them because they encircled them and were better at hand to hand combat with their weapons

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Smaller-city states rise up with Sparta to take on Athens because they are still taking their money for a war that had ended. Athens loses this war because Pericles dies, their leadership switches sides, a plague of some sort destroyed a lot of their population, and they pick on Sicily before they're even done with this war which distracts them

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Wrote the Iliad and the Oddyssey. Considered the father of literature

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From the island of Lesbos, Greek poetess, wrote homosexual poetry

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Greek tragedy writer, best remembered for writing Orestia, the story of Agamemnon who put together the army for the Trojan war, risky subjects and themes

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Most remembered for writing about the Trojan war from the losers perspective and didn't glorify war

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Risky themes, wrote Antigone and Oedipus Rex

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First historian, thought it was a story, but manipulated some of the facts for the entertainment value

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Wrote about the Peloponnesian War, wanted to write about history and always wanted it to be historically correct, he would go around the check his facts before writing them

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Sculptor who carved Zeus on Mt Olympus, carved in the Pantheon, was the most well known artist of the time

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Culturally conservative, militaristic in that it parallels with Assyria, they have a good food production zone so they always feel they need to protect that land, They're good at administration because they have one of the longest lasting empires in history, they use others (Greek) ideas and put them to use for their own architecture

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Greek comedy writer, writes satire about the government, had a collection of short stories called "Clouds"

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Most well known lyric poet of the time, wrote poetry and then set it to music

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Romans learn to build a navy, They get Sicily

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Carthage has Hannibal as a general who invades Rome from the north, this is totally unexpected, but he isn't able to take well fortified cities, has to return home and makes the mistake of going right back into war before his troops have time to recover

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Carthage still exists but Romans wanted them gone, annialates city and picked up some provinces in north Africa

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They felt they had to protect their great farm land from harm and the dense population that lived and thrived on it. They had virtu which was essentially nationalism, they put a lot of their adult population into the army, Diplomacy-Divide and conquer, road system allowed them to maneuver their own empire skillfully, Roman army had huge advantages in weapons and they had a machine like army

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Two brothers with the solution that since the gap between the rich and the poor was getting larger, they should give some of the land that they had conquered in their conquests to the poor and let them start over

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The general who led the Carthage army to defeat the Romans, but never won, he eventually committed suicide because he was never able to defeat the Romans

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This is when civil wars broke out in Rome, the small class farmers were mad and poor and would go with any general that offered them more money, marius v Sulla, Pompeii v Caesar, and marc antony v Octivian, Antony is distracted with Cleopatra and loses, Caesar changes his name to Augustus who expands the government and builds things and starts the Pax Romana

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Internal factors-They had constant civil wars which were creating snowball effects, Government begins to heavily tax people which slows down the economy because they have nothing to spend, farm land destroyed from war so they starve, they're not invading and conquering so there is no money flowing in and a lot more money flowing out for trade, their culture is changing-their work ethic disappears External factors-they have barbarian Germanic tribes that are invading from the north to get away from the Huns, In the east, they have a new threat which is Persian who has a strong centralized power and is equal to the size of the Roman empire

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Helped get Rome out of its troubles, defeated the Germanic tribes on their north border, defeated the Persians to the east, these two groups wouldn't be a threat again for a while, solves external and internal problems, put down rebellions, two of his advisors were embezzling money and poisoned him before he found out.

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Emphasized emperor worship and makes himself a God, last emperor to persecute Christians, divided empire into east and west so that one person ruled the entire empire, changes capital, he makes almost everyone a government employee which stimulated the economy

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Remembered for converting to Christianity which is a complete reversal, connects government with the most growing religion of the time, starts a new dynasty

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Last emperor to rule the whole Roman empire, when he dies he splits it between his sons and it will never be the same, makes Christianity the official religion, closes down classical Roman religious centers, last strong capable and competent ruler of the empire

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Little wars or violence, merchants were important and second only to priests, artisans make pottery and weave baskets, military doesn't match up culturally which makes them succeptible to invaders

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Formative Classical Post-classical

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South of the Olmec, artistic and intellectual ability, martriarchal values, but then a shift towards patriarchy

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First major people group to appear in Europe, artistic skills, creative, traditions not written down they're passed down orally, rule north of the mountains, Rome will defeat them because they're not organized militarily

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Practiced ritualistic human sacrifice and blood-letting,

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Located in South America in what is modern day Chile

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