Unit 3: Society and Culture

Question 0

Classical period

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Ended between third and sixth centuries CE

Question 1

Classicism

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Defining and long lasting civilizational patterns shaped by belief systems

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Golden age

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High point if cultural achievement for a civilization

Question 3

Mycenae

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Began about 1400 BCE, mainland Greeks with city states under a king who was a military general judge and priest but was NOT absolute

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Dorians

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1200 BCE, Dorians overthrew Mycenaeans and plunged Greeks into dark age

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Polis

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Classical Greek city state organization

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Phalanx

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A formation of eight ranks of infantry soldiers where the soldiers marched so close that their metal shields formed a wall

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Hellenic age

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612 go 339 BCE in Greece with the democratization of Athens

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Peleoponnesian wars

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30 years of war between Athens and Sparta with Sparta victorious

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Rationalism

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Order and beauty can be conceived in the mind of man

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Golden age of Greece

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Last half of the fifth century BCE

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Aryans (ancient)

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Persians and Medes were examples

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Cyrus II

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A Persian warrior who conquered Medes in 550 BCE

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Achaemenid

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The dynasty created by cyrus II, 550-331 BCE.

Ruled Egypt, southwest Asia, west India, Indus River valley

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Royal road

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Reading road running From Susa in Persia to Sardis in turkey

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Zoroastrianism

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Religion of Persia which sought no converts and was tolerant of other religions. POLYTHEISTIC with a Chief god

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King Phillip (Macedonia)

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In 338 BCE Phillip defeated Thebes and Athens to become master of Greece

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Hellenistic age

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323 to 30 BCE after Alexanders death in Greece