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Chapter 4: Greece & Rome Flashcards

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202069635politicsWhat the Greek genius was in, and along with geometry and anatomy, this was one of the Greek's greatest contribution to science0
202069636engineeringWhat the Roman genius was1
202069637Democratic city-statesWhat Greek politics was noted for its formation of2
202069638Local politicians and religious diversityWhat the Roman Empire tolerated3
202069639The landed aristocracyWhat the Senate of republican Rome particularly represented4
202069640Aristocratic assembliesWhat the most characteristic political form in the classical Mediterranean world was5
202069641PlatoThe Greek philosopher who suggested that human reason could approach an understanding of the perfect forms: the absolutely True, Good, and Beautiful that he believed underlay nature6
202069642ScienceWhat Greek society, compared to Rome's, registered special advances in7
202069643A diversity of political systems, a more elaborate legal framework, and the idea of active citizenshipWhat classical Mediterranean society differed from classical China by8
202069644Military service, working in the mines, household care and tutoring, and agricultural laborWhat Roman slaves were used for9
202069645Relatively unstableWhat Rome's internal politics were like when Rome expanded the sway of Mediterranean civilization to western Europe10
202069646The diversity of political forms of governance, which ranged between democracy and tyrannyWhat both Greece and Rome experimented in11
202069647Crafting a world-class religionWhat the Greeks and Romans were never concerned with crafting a world-class religion12
202069648The foundations of "classical architecture"What Greek architecture is considered as having invented13
202069649The rise of commercial agriculture in Greece and then around RomeWhat one of the prime forces leading to efforts to establish an empire were14
202069650Production technologyWhat Mediterranean society lagged in behind both India and China15
202069651Athens and SpartaThe leading city-states that emerged during classical Greece civilization16
202069652Through the Middle East, across Persia to the border of India, and southward through EgyptWhere Alexander the Great spread the Macedonian Empire17
202069653The three Punic wars (264—146 BCE)The war in which Rome fought the armies of the Phoenician city of Carthage, situated on the northern coast of Africa, and also when Roman conquest spread more widely18
202069654polisThe Greek word for city-state, where the word politics comes from19
202069655The Twelve TablesThe first law code of the early Roman republic20
202069656SocratesThe Greek philosopher who, in Athens, encouraged his pupils to question received wisdom, on the ground that the chief human duty was the "improvement of the soul"21
202069657EuclidThe Greek mathematician who produced what was long the world's most widely used compendiums of geometry22
202069658SophoclesThe Athenian dramatist who insightfully portrayed the psychological flaws of his tragic hero Oedipus23
202069659The SenateThe most important legislative body in classical Rome24
202069660Julius CaesarRoman dictator who gained control of Rome in 45 BCE and brought an end to the traditional institutions of the Roman state25
202069661ZoroastrianismAn early monotheistic religion which came from within the Persian empire26
202069662The SassanidAn empire which arose during Rome's imperial era after being toppled by the Greek leader Alexander the Great27
202069663800 BCEThe beginning of the rise of the dynamic city-states of classical Greece28
2020696645th century (401—500 BCE)The high point in the rise of the dynamic city-states of classical Greece with the leadership of the Athenian Pericles29
202069665Alexander the GreatThe expansionist who briefly united Greece and the Persian Empire30
202069666HellenismThe legacy of the combination of the Grecian and Persian empires31
202069667Rome's development as a republicWhat began as Hellenism waned32
202069668Challenged regional powers and lesser developed culturesWhat Rome did to gain more territory and become an empire33
202069669Aristocratic ruleWhat both Greece and Rome tended to emphasize in terms of political forms34
202069670DemocracyThe most famous Greek political style35
202069671Classical Mediterranean political theoryInvolved ethics, duties of citizens, and skills, such as oratory36
202069672Political legacies of the Mediterranean culturesAn intense loyalty to the state, a preference for aristocratic rule, and the development of a uniform set of legal principles37
202069673China, India, and the MediterraneanThe three great classical civilizations38
202069674AgricultureWhat all three classical civilizations relied on primarily for their economy39
202069675All developed into an empire, relied primarily on an agricultural economy, supported the development of science, emphasized clear social strata with a considerably large distance between the elites and the massesSimilarities between the three great classical civilizations40
202069676Social mobility (India's restrictive, Rome's fluid), different cultural "glue" (civic duty for Mediterraneans, good reward for good behavior in reincarnation for Indians, and Chinese Confucianism promoted obedience and self-restraint for peace and prosperity)Differences between the three great classical civilizations41
202069677ChristianityThe Mediterranean social structure murderer42
202069678FragmentaryHow Rome's falll was, collapsing in the Western empire long before the Eastern side43

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