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Development of Europe
Midterm Review
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History
Undergraduate 1
03/20/2011

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Pericles
Definition
Leader during the Golden Age of Athens
499-431 BCE
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Delian League
Definition
Athenian Navel Alliance
499-431 BCE
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Agora
Definition
Greek marketplace
499-431 BCE
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Sophists
Definition
Greek scholars and intellectuals who offered new ways of thinking
450 BCE
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Socratic Method
Definition
Questioning assumptions
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Plato
429-348 BCE
Definition
Socrates' student
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Metaphysics
Definition
Study of true reality
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Aristotle
Definition
Logic, practical ethics, science
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Alexander the Great
Definition
Fourth-Century BCE King who takes over the Persian Empire.
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Hellenistic
Definition
Greek period 323-30 BCE
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Mos maiorum
Definition
Way of the Elders- used in the Roman Empire
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Patria Potestas
Definition
Father's power
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Plebeians
Definition
Ordinary Citizens
Early Roman Republic
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Early Roman Republic
Definition
509-287 BCE
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Patricians
Definition
Rome's elite
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Plebiscites
Definition
Resolutions passed by the Plebeian Assembly
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Humanitas
Definition
Cicero's ideas of treating others based on natural law
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Equites
Definition
Wealthy Roman businessmen
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Populares
Definition
People-supporting political faction in Rome's late republic
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Optimates
Definition
Aristocratic-supporting faction
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Late Republic
Definition
133-44 BCE
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First Triumvarte
Definition
60 BCE
Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus
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Augustus's Restoration of the Republic
Definition
27 BCE-14 BCE
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Pax Romana
Definition
27 BCE to 284 AD
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Apolistic Succession
Definition
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Orthodoxy/Heresy
Definition
Term
Debasement of coinage
Definition
Inflation-causing action that occurs in 3rd century Rome
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Dominate
Definition
Diocletian's (late 3rd century) authoritarian form of government
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Tetrarchy
Definition
Rule by 4- Refers to Diocletian's diving of the Roman Empire into 2 sectinons w/ 2 subsections in 293
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Coloni
Definition
Tenant farmers in the empire
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Curials
Definition
Social elite in Roman Empire's cities and towns-had to collect taxes
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Great Persecution
Definition
303- Diocletian's persecution of Christians
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Edict of Milan
Definition
Constantine's proclamation of Roman freedom of religion
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Julian the Apostate
Definition
Roman emperor who rejected Christianity and tried to restore traditional paganism
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Theodosius I
Definition
Reoman emporoer 379-395 who made Christianity the state religion by ending sacrifices
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Augustine
Definition
Late 3rd/Early 4th Century- Bishop who defined much of Christianity
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Nicene Creed
Definition
Holy Trinity
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Arianism
Definition
Holy Trinity is separate
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Ascenticism
Definition
Spiritual discipline
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Justinian and Theodora
Definition
6th century emperor and empress of the eastern Roman Empire, famous for waging costly wars to reunite the empire
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Wergild
Definition
Reparations for murder
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Visigoths
Definition
Sacked Rome in 410
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5 Pillars of Islame
Definition
Fasting, Hajj (pilgrimage), shahadah (profession of faith), salat (formal worship), zakat (alms)
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Umayyad caliphate
Definition
Caliphs who traced their ancestry to Umayyah, a member of Muhammad's tribe, 661-750
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Lombards
Definition
Northern/Southern Italy- 6th century
Papacy feels threatened by them
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Iconoclasm
Definition
Destroying of Christian icons in the 8th century
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Gregory of Tours
Definition
Merovingian Historian in the late 6th Century
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Merovingian
Definition
Royal dynasty that ruled Gaul from about 486 to 751
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Gregory the Great
Definition
Late 6th century
Sends missionaries to England
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Dynatoi
Definition
Dominated Byzantine countryside
10th and 11th centuries
Challenged emporer
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Charlemagne
Definition
Carolingian King 768-814
Crowned Christmas Day, 800
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Carolingian
Definition
Frankish dynasty 751-late 800s
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Treaty of Verdun
Definition
Splits the Carolingian Empire into 3 parts
843
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Fiefs
Definition
Grants of land given to vassals by lords
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Commune
Definition
Legal corporate body that kept pece in town
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Guild
Definition
Term
Simony
Definition
Paying for church office
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lay investiture
Definition
Installation of clerics into their offices by lay people, lords, or ruler
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Reconquista
Definition
Crusades in Spain
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Gregorian reform
Definition
r. 1073-1085 Ending corruption, marriage, and lay investiture.
Term
Henry IV
Definition
King of Germany r. 1056-1006
Got into Investiture
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Concordant of Worms
Definition
1122
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First Crusade
Definition
Late 11th century
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Battle of Hastings
Definition
Mid 11th century- Normans successfully invade England
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Second Crusade
Definition
Mid 12th Century
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Henry II
Definition
r. 1154
Expanded royal power and ends Civil War
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Common Law
Definition
Term
Fredrick I
Definition
King of Germany
Late 12th Century
Expands power through conquest
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Fourth Crusade
Definition
13th Century
Constantinople is conquered
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Innocent III
Definition
Later 12th Century
Calls 4th Lateran Council
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Fourth Lateran Council
Definition
Sacraments, Eucharist, transubstantiation, policy toward heretics and Jews
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Scholasticism
Definition
Method of logical inquiry proposed by Aristotelian logic in order to change ways of thinking
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