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Western Civilization
Notes and Vocab for Test 1
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History
Undergraduate 2
09/15/2010

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Tyche
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Greek goddess of fortune
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Asclepius
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Son of Apollo and the ancient Greek god of medicine and healing worshiped by the Romans
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Archimedes of Syracuse
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First great mathmatition
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Epicureanism
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The philosophical system or doctorine of Epicurus, holding that external world is a series of fortuitous combinations of atoms and that the highest good is pleasure, interpreted as freedom from disturbance or pain
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Diogenes
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412-323 BC, was a Greek philosopher, who rejected socail conventions and advocated self sufficiency
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Stoicism
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A systematic phylosophy that held the principles of logical thought to reflect a cosmic reason instatiated in nature showing the repression of emotion and indefference to pleasue or pain
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Hellenistic
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The way of living and social structure of pollia's including the studies of hellenism and in these societies the power of the pollas is less
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