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| Babylonian architectural style |
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| rule self regarding local issues |
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| collection of indian fables |
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| What did early women do that allowed them to contribute significantly to food supply? |
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| hunting and gathering->nets (rabbits) |
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| What is a possible new view about the use and or importance of statues of women from the prehistoric time? |
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| What group of people in today's world have a similar life style to the Cro-Magnon societies? |
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| What group was replaced by Cro-Magnon? |
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| What was so interesting about the Roman approach to collecting taxes, specifically their tax collectors? |
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| the tax collectors had to be rich |
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| What was the major material that was used in the furnaces to produce high temperatures? |
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| HOw did deforestation affect the culture of the iron smelting people in Central Africa? |
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| Why do we have so much evidence of taxation in the Egyptian Kingdoms than we have elsewhere? |
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| Name 3 groups of prehistoric people. |
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-Beijing Man
-Java man
-Neanderthal |
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| Give two developments associated with the Paleolithic age and 2 developments associated with the Neolithic Age. |
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paleo-produce fire, hunter-gatherers
neo-wheel, agriculture |
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| What is the significance of time to the development of manhood. |
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| more time to think and new developments |
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| What stimulus do some historians believe led to the development of civilization? |
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| Name the 3 developmental stages of written language. |
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| Pictograph, Ideograph, alphabet |
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| What are two factors upon which Hittite power was based? Why did Assyrian power collapse? |
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-Hittite-politics and military
-Assyrian-hatred by conquered people |
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| Give two examples from Hammurabi's code that illustrate that the people had a sense of justice. |
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-Women and slaves had some value->laws that protect them
-Fees were less expensive for people with less money |
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| What were two basic concepts taught by Confucius. |
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| What are 2 possible explanations for the success of the Hittites. |
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-Prof. military
-1st large group to shift to iron age |
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| Give three contributions made by Indians in hte area of mathematics. |
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-Negative #s
-Arabic numerals
-Square root of 2 |
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| What is the Hindu trinity of gods? What do they signify? |
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-Brahma-creator, birth
-Vishnu-preserver, life
-Shiva-destroyer, death |
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| What did Ch'in do to help unify his empire? |
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| -uniform laws, weights and measures |
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| What significant internal factor led to the collapse of both the Indian and Chinese civilizations? |
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| What discovery did Archimedes make that led him to shout "Eureka"? |
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| He could use displacement to calculate amount of gold in crown. |
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| According to Aristarchus what is the focal point of the solar system? How did this differ from Aristotle? What is the difference between a heliocentric and a geocentric universe? Name a Greek philosopher associated with each one. |
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| -Sun -Aristotle->earth -Sun-centered-Aristarchus -Earth-centered-Aristotle |
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| What are the three physical parts of a polis? |
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-Upper City
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-Farmlands |
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| Which historian felt that history should entertain and the facts were irrelevant? Which historian believed that the data should be checked and repeated accurately? |
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| Give three problems that developed in Alexander's Empire after his death. |
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-Polis->administrative group
-Growing rich/poor divide
-Greek self-confidence decreasing |
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| Give two significant contributions of Alexander. |
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-Spread Greek polis model
-Spread Greek culture |
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| Who won the Peloponnesian War? |
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| Give 3 changes put in place by Solon that contributed to the develpment or maintenance of democracy in Athens. |
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-Forgave all debts.
-Slavery cannot be a punishment for debt
-Limited amount of land one could own |
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| What two major commodidites became important to the Greek mainland as trade items with their colonies? What supplemental business developed as a consequence? |
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-Wine and Olive Oil
-Advertisement/Marketing |
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| What impact did coined money have upon the pace of trade and upon the accumulation of debt? |
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-Sped up trade (except in Sparta)
-People spent more than they had->more debt |
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| What caused the collapse of Alexander's empire? What were the major divisions? Who were the leaders of the major divisions? |
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| -His death -Egypt->Ptolomy -Syria/Persia->Selecus -Greece->Antigonias |
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| Describe two feminine images important to the Cretan religion. What do they symbolize? |
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-Woman holding snakes->all life->dominance
-Woman holding male baby->creation/fertility |
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| Give 2 important advances in either science or mathematics done by Greeks. |
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->Euclid->Euclidean geometry
-Aristophones->degree length on earth |
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| Of the schools of Greek philosophy which one believed that we could know nothing because sensory impressions were falliable? Which one believed that duty was important? |
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| Why was Socrates sentenced to death? Why did he accept this decision? |
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-taught students to question->treason
-change rules by using the system->justice |
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| According to Plato what is real? What is not real? Give examples |
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-Ideas
-Everything else
-Buddhism, Democracy |
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| Today we believe that technology will lead to a better life. Implied in the concept of better is the belief that life will be grander in an aesthetic snese. How is this concept contradicted in the article "Godliness and Work"? |
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| Tech. was work done by hands->didn't enhance the grandeur of life |
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| Give two examples of the advanced techonology understood by people in the ancient world. |
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| What is the Marxian explanation about why these technologies were never applied to industry? |
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| They didn't need them b/c they had "cheap" and "excessive" slave labor |
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| How did the Romans and Greeks view people who provided technological advancement? |
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| What attitudinal development occured to change how tech. was viewed? What institution is possibly responsible for this change? |
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-Work was viewed as a positive
-Christian church |
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| "he (Archimedes) viewed the work of the engineer and every single art connected with everyday need as ignoble and fit only for an artisan. He devoted his ambition only to those studies in which beauty and sutlety are present, uncontaminated by necessity" Explain how this quotation reflects the Greek view of technology. |
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Work w/ hands->lower status
Work w/ mind-> higher value |
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| Who delivered the speech that Thucydides wrote about? |
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| According to Thucydides what was the highest ideal? |
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| According to speaker of the funeral oration, who was being buried and who should pay the cost of the burial service? |
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-Those who died in war
-The polis |
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| What was Alexander's relationship to his mother and father based upon recent research? |
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-Father->competitor
-Mother->protector and helper |
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| What are two views of Alexander according to historians and leaders? |
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-Great(est) military general
-Cruel, pompous leader |
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| Name 3 of Archimedes' inventions |
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| In the area of math give 1 of Archimedes' contributions. |
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| According to Archimedes he could move the earth if he had what? |
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| The right size lever, a pivot, and a place to stand |
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