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Cards Term what ideals going through at the time? Definition tragedies and comedies Term what ideals did the greeks try to make Definition created statues by perfections to make gods Term what made up greek social classes Definition citizens slaves medics Term what made up roman social classes Definition wealthy poor Term what determined what government position you held in rome? Definition if you were wealthy or not Term if you were a roman citizen you had what in the government? Definition says or rights Term what factors made greeks start conquring? Definition -protecting what they already had -made a Delian League- a loose alliance -Didn't really do a ton of conquring Term what was the major problem holding the greeks back from making a successful empire? Definition -geological location -lack of accepting other cultures Term what factors made romans start conquring? Definition -made roads and moved from town to town -took over seaports -they saw some place becoming weak and took over sections -they were opportunistic -people wanted to be roman since it would act as a security for them Term What did Socrates believe? Definition -moral life leads to happieness -introduced knowledge which came from reasoning -absolute standards-there are always good behaviors Term What did Aristotle believe? Definition -didn't believe in ideal form -stepped aside of Plato's ideas and said observation was the way to go -science was more important than abstracting -used classification: put different aspects into categories Term What did Plato believe? Definition -theory of ideal forms -used reasoning to come up with images of the ideal man or teacher Term who were the sophists and what did they do? Definition -philosophers that lived in the 5th century BC -used reasoning and critical thinking to come up with laws -did not believe that there were absolute/universal standards for truth and justice Term what is oratory? Definition the ability to make persuasive speeches Term what was ostracism and who used it? Definition -whenever the 10 generals did something wrong, they got ostrasized or kicked out for 10 years. -the greeks used it Term what was local autonomy? Definition -independence from other groups -romans were the biggest supporters of local autonomy Term what is anthropomorphic and why was it inportant? Definition -all the ideals in human form to make a god -important because humans could relate easier to the god Term what was a polis and why was it important? Definition -a greek city-state -important because they started first governments and it tought communities Term what was dualism? Definition -seperation of mind -seperation of body Term emenence gods vs. transcendence gods Definition -emenence gods have flaws (human form) -transcendence gods never mess up (holy) Term how could you be a part of the assembly of Athens, Greece? how many times did the assembly meet? Definition -18 years old -male -native of Athens -free of slavery -40 times per year