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- Emporion: trading posts (Pithekoussai, settled by Greeks from Eretria and Chalcis to trade with Etruscans, became home to Greeks, Etruscans and Phoenicians)
- Apoikia: the formalized process of an independent polis from a mother city (metropolis)
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- oracles: ie. Delphi giving instructions to someone to find a colony - Miltiades of Athens was told to settle in Thrace
- no economy: some impact on the economy to start over - no rain in Thera for 7 years, Libyans take Cyrenian settlers to place that is good
- land division: Taras (Spartans) unhappy with land division after First Messenian War
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| a clay drinking vessel of 8th c. BCE (described in Homer's Illiad belonging to Nestor, king of Pylos) found in Myceanae bearing a famous inscription calling itself Nestor's cup |
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- highly patterned and angular
- figures of sphinxes, lions, flowers, snakes
- Gorgon: fantastical polymorphic creatures that were popular in Greek mythology
- Pithos: from Xombourgo (700 BCE), god with wings
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- curse tablets, means to bind down
- thin sheet of lead, rolled up and pierced with a nail that is then deposited into a grave/tomb/sanctuary
- categories: commerical, judicial, amatory, competition
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- voodoo dolls
- physically being bound
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- explaining the nature of things such as humans, gods & universe
- concerned with the natural world, often reducing matter to a single element
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- 6th c.
- founder of western philosophy
- astronomer, predicted solar eclipse 585
- one of the seven sages
- argued for water
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- mid 6th c.
- elements always in competition and sometimes one wins but eventually they pay for punishments for injustice; example summer falls into winter, always a continuous cycle
- principle of the aperion (boundless, thing that is not distinct or uniform)
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- late 6th-5th c.
- doctrines include: the fire (consistent element, everything can be traced back to fire), the flux (things are in constant change, engaging with processes and the unity of opposites), logos (work, speech, reason & law, object is not determined by what its constituent part but the process of change, the logo mixes it)
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- 5th-4th c.
- travelled Egypt and babylonia
- pioneered atomism; observable matter divided from indivisible eternal units
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- mid 5th c.
- four cardinal elemented united by love and divided by strife
- mystic materialism = the idea that knowledge of materialism is special
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- oldest surviving manuscript
- founded in macedonian tomb
- derives from Anaxagoras
- sun is fiery rock, moon shines due to its reflection, mind orders all matter
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- founded by Cyrus
- expanded by Campbyses (stabbed himself in Egypt by accident)
- Gaumata, a pretender, took the throne claiming he was from the priestly class and brother of Cambyses
- overthrown by Darius
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- tyrant who ruled Samos before becoming a Persian subject
- defeated Mytilene
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| tyrant of Miletus that sought to increase power, prestige |
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- 490 BCE
- Athenian forces led by Miltiades that defeated the Persians by outflanking them
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- populist, non-aristocratic politician
- expanded navy
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| represent that battle of Eurymedon River in 466 where Athens defeated the Persians |
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- limited powers of Aereopagus
- expand the Heliaia
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