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Worldviews Flashcards

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what is a worldview?

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  • how different people and cultures perceive and live in the world
  • collection of values and beliefs about the world
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how can worldviews impact our identity?

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  • it can change how you see/change the world
  • basis for the way you act, react, and feel about the world
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what is the western world?

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societies based on the worldview developed in western europe

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which factors to how a society operates can be influenced by worldview?

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social systems: the organizations a society has to provide for its citizens

culture: the way of life of a group of people

political/social economics: the way government is organized + methods of which resources are factored/distributed

geography: where the group lives

ideas/knowledge: what a group knows

contact with other groups: interactions with different people with different worldviews

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what is a renaissance?

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renaitre: to be born again

  • rediscovery of ancient knowledge
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which invention made large civilizations possible?

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agriculture

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how did the geography of ancient greece give it an advantage?

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  • far enough away to avoid any conflict with major empires
  • close enough to absorb new ideas
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what were the contributions made by ancient greece?

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  • first culture to embrace reason over superstition
  • explained the world through logic instead of god(s) and religion
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what did ancient greece use logic and reason to create advancements in?

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architecture, writing, drama, warfare, government, sports, art, science, philosophy

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who was socrates?

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developed socratic method, whereby a series of questions are posed in order to challenge the implications of answers

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who was plato?

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emphasized the importance of reason
- believed in a state made from the smartest in the society

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who was aristotle?

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developed our current methods of reasoning and used if/then statements, scientific method

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how did alexander the great spread the greek worldview?

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  • attempts to create greek empire
  • conquers huge territory
  • found cities
  • spread ideas
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what did ancient rome do with the ideas they took from other cultures?

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adopted and improved upon them
- writing, art, architecture, warfare, engineering, roads

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how did rome spread ideas?

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-romans brought new ideas with them
- introduced ideas to conquered people

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how did the decline of the roman empire occur?

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  • empire becomes too big to govern
  • weak emperors weaken empire
  • rome split in 2
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how did the division of the roman empire occur?

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  • eastern and western
  • most of the wealth and empire goes to the eastern empire (byzantium)
  • western empire left weak
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how did the fall of rome occur?

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  • visigoths attack city of rome
  • western empire falls
  • roman knowledge lost
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what was there a loss of after the fall of rome?

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government, knowledge, technology. communication, trade, security

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how did the rise of the church occur?

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  • rome adopted catholicism in 312 CE
  • spread throughout empire
  • after rome falls the church becomes new authority
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who was st. augustine?

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  • created worldview of the middle ages
  • focus on the city of god (life on earth is brutal and unstable and you should live a just life to escape to heaven)
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what was the medieval worldview?

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  • god is the centre of human existence
  • must accept a short miserable life on earth
  • eternal happiness awaits in heaven
  • church is the only guide to heaven
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how was church a guide to heaven?

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  • church becomes ultimate authority
  • rationality and questioning is discouraged
  • decline in science and learning
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how was the medieval society structured?

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  • strict class based society
  • it was impossible to change social class
  • god determined your place in life
  • god’s will is not to be questioned
  • unequal society
  • small number of people that have the most wealth and power
  • difficult life for peasant majority
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what was the order in the feudal system?

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1 - king
2- lords
3 - knights
4 - peasants

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what was the system of mutual obligation?

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each class in a feudal system would provide service and receive service

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what was the silk road?

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  • ancient trade routes stretching from rome to china
  • transported silk, pottery, food, animals, spices
  • spread inventions, ideas, cultures, disease, worldviews
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what was the silk road like in the medieval times?

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  • after the fall of rome european trade along silk road had stopped and there were no new ideas for centuries
  • trade continued between byzantine empire and china
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how did the islamic states rise?

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  • islamic territory was in the middle of the silk road
  • islamic traders passed goods from east to west
  • islamic traders/cities grew wealthy through exchange
  • collected knowledge from both east to west
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how were islam and science intertwined?

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  • islam promotes science and inquiry
  • islamic scholars preserved the ideas of greece and rome
  • improved on and developed ideas
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what were the crusades?

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  • christian invasion of muslim territory
  • holy war to conquer jerusalem
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what was the cause of the crusades?

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  • too many knights in europe, christians were killing christians
  • pope attempts to unite knights to fight groups other than christians
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what were the results of the crusades?

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  • christians rule jerusalem for 90 years
  • eventually forced out by muslim armies
  • europeans exposed to new worldviews
  • crusaders sample new cultures and ideas
  • rediscover knowledge from greece and rome in islamic libraries
  • crusaders bring ideas back to europe
  • the silk road reopens
  • stage is set for the renaissance
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what is urbanization?

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the movement of people from rural areas to cities

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what were the causes for urbanization?

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  • the black death
  • the reopening of trade
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what did the black death –> urbanization do?

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  • allow peasants to leave feudal land
  • (new jobs)
  • lords can no longer profit off of feudal land
  • they sold their land and started businesses in the city
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what did the reopening of trade –> urbanization do?

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  • high demand for exotic goods was discovered during crusades
  • cities become centers for trade
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what were the overall consequences of urbanization?

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new jobs: - jobs created outside of feudal system
- merchants, traders, storeowners
- bankers = finance trade

new ideas: - trading cities become centers for the exchange of ideas
- return of greek and roman ideas
- introduction of islamic ideas

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how did people become infected with the black death?

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  • flea drinks rats blood that carry the bacteria
  • bacteria multiply in the the fleas gut
  • fleas gut clogged with bacteria
  • flea bites human and regurgitates blood into human’s wound

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