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CH 201 Review
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History
Undergraduate 1
07/30/2013

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Term
Caligula
Definition
  • cruel
  • excess violence
  • made horse cosul=demonstrated absolute power
  • orgies=ate until threw up
  • was assissinated 
Term
Nero
Definition
  • saw himself as musician--> was not
  • ordered heavy persecution of Christians 
Term
Marcus Aurelius
Definition
  • envisioned himself as philosoper
  • rational thinker
  • good emperor
Term
Pax Romana
Definition

Roman Peace

  • age of public order
  • military stability
Term

Time of Crisis

 

Definition
  • Roman empire begins to fall
  • Roman pastoral values fall
Term
diocletian
Definition
  • banned christianity
Term
constantine
Definition
  • responsible for creating way for catholic church
  • saw christianity was a way to unite Rome
Term
ovid
Definition

wrote art of love

how to guide for love

Term
livy
Definition

historian

wrote history of the roamn republic

Term
clesus and galen
Definition

wrote on medicine

talks about ways to take care of body

galen ws celsus' follower

Term

st. augustine

 

Definition

wrote confessions, city of God

original sin

Term
mecca
Definition

in-between city

mohammad forms theocracy here

Term
mohammed
Definition

had a revelation

him and follwers trael to city of yathrib/medina (hijira)

formed theocracy in mecca

Term
hijira
Definition
mohammed and follwer's journey to medina
Term
caliphate
Definition
islamic state
Term
medina
Definition

hijira

islam's model city

Term
ali-sunni/shia split
Definition
80% of the world's muslims are sunni
Term
dhimmis
Definition

people of the book

jews and Christians

Term
five pillars of Islam
Definition
  1. verbal=there is one God and mohammad is his prophet
  2. give alms to poor
  3. pilgrimage
  4. ramadan
  5. face towareds mecca and pray five time a day
Term
qur'ran
Definition

not chronological

meant to be sung in arabic

allah referred to by many pronouns: she/he/we/they

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