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09/19/2004

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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
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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
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What did Socrates believe?
Definition
-moral life leads to happieness
-introduced knowledge which came from reasoning
-absolute standards-there are always good behaviors
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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
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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
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what is oratory?
Definition
the ability to make persuasive speeches
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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
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what was local autonomy?
Definition
-independence from other groups
-romans were the biggest supporters of local autonomy
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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
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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)
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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
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