202069635 | politics | What the Greek genius was in, and along with geometry and anatomy, this was one of the Greek's greatest contribution to science | 0 | |
202069636 | engineering | What the Roman genius was | 1 | |
202069637 | Democratic city-states | What Greek politics was noted for its formation of | 2 | |
202069638 | Local politicians and religious diversity | What the Roman Empire tolerated | 3 | |
202069639 | The landed aristocracy | What the Senate of republican Rome particularly represented | 4 | |
202069640 | Aristocratic assemblies | What the most characteristic political form in the classical Mediterranean world was | 5 | |
202069641 | Plato | The 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 nature | 6 | |
202069642 | Science | What Greek society, compared to Rome's, registered special advances in | 7 | |
202069643 | A diversity of political systems, a more elaborate legal framework, and the idea of active citizenship | What classical Mediterranean society differed from classical China by | 8 | |
202069644 | Military service, working in the mines, household care and tutoring, and agricultural labor | What Roman slaves were used for | 9 | |
202069645 | Relatively unstable | What Rome's internal politics were like when Rome expanded the sway of Mediterranean civilization to western Europe | 10 | |
202069646 | The diversity of political forms of governance, which ranged between democracy and tyranny | What both Greece and Rome experimented in | 11 | |
202069647 | Crafting a world-class religion | What the Greeks and Romans were never concerned with crafting a world-class religion | 12 | |
202069648 | The foundations of "classical architecture" | What Greek architecture is considered as having invented | 13 | |
202069649 | The rise of commercial agriculture in Greece and then around Rome | What one of the prime forces leading to efforts to establish an empire were | 14 | |
202069650 | Production technology | What Mediterranean society lagged in behind both India and China | 15 | |
202069651 | Athens and Sparta | The leading city-states that emerged during classical Greece civilization | 16 | |
202069652 | Through the Middle East, across Persia to the border of India, and southward through Egypt | Where Alexander the Great spread the Macedonian Empire | 17 | |
202069653 | The 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 widely | 18 | |
202069654 | polis | The Greek word for city-state, where the word politics comes from | 19 | |
202069655 | The Twelve Tables | The first law code of the early Roman republic | 20 | |
202069656 | Socrates | The 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 | |
202069657 | Euclid | The Greek mathematician who produced what was long the world's most widely used compendiums of geometry | 22 | |
202069658 | Sophocles | The Athenian dramatist who insightfully portrayed the psychological flaws of his tragic hero Oedipus | 23 | |
202069659 | The Senate | The most important legislative body in classical Rome | 24 | |
202069660 | Julius Caesar | Roman dictator who gained control of Rome in 45 BCE and brought an end to the traditional institutions of the Roman state | 25 | |
202069661 | Zoroastrianism | An early monotheistic religion which came from within the Persian empire | 26 | |
202069662 | The Sassanid | An empire which arose during Rome's imperial era after being toppled by the Greek leader Alexander the Great | 27 | |
202069663 | 800 BCE | The beginning of the rise of the dynamic city-states of classical Greece | 28 | |
202069664 | 5th century (401—500 BCE) | The high point in the rise of the dynamic city-states of classical Greece with the leadership of the Athenian Pericles | 29 | |
202069665 | Alexander the Great | The expansionist who briefly united Greece and the Persian Empire | 30 | |
202069666 | Hellenism | The legacy of the combination of the Grecian and Persian empires | 31 | |
202069667 | Rome's development as a republic | What began as Hellenism waned | 32 | |
202069668 | Challenged regional powers and lesser developed cultures | What Rome did to gain more territory and become an empire | 33 | |
202069669 | Aristocratic rule | What both Greece and Rome tended to emphasize in terms of political forms | 34 | |
202069670 | Democracy | The most famous Greek political style | 35 | |
202069671 | Classical Mediterranean political theory | Involved ethics, duties of citizens, and skills, such as oratory | 36 | |
202069672 | Political legacies of the Mediterranean cultures | An intense loyalty to the state, a preference for aristocratic rule, and the development of a uniform set of legal principles | 37 | |
202069673 | China, India, and the Mediterranean | The three great classical civilizations | 38 | |
202069674 | Agriculture | What all three classical civilizations relied on primarily for their economy | 39 | |
202069675 | All 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 masses | Similarities between the three great classical civilizations | 40 | |
202069676 | Social 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 civilizations | 41 | |
202069677 | Christianity | The Mediterranean social structure murderer | 42 | |
202069678 | Fragmentary | How Rome's falll was, collapsing in the Western empire long before the Eastern side | 43 |
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