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Exam #2 key terms
World History 4t with Steigler at Nicholls State University
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By: Bianca Benoit
Created: 2011-09-14
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arthur evans
welsh archaeologist. inherited a fortune from father's business. knossus excavation 1900 in crete. he is a modern man from england.
heinrich schliemann
german archaeologist. In the 1870s he Escavated/destroyed Hisarlik (mound in Turkey)-Troy
salamis
from 480 bc naval battle. Fought off coast of Greece.
*Greeks crushed the persians. (persians couldn't maintain supply lines. had to withdraw)
charonea
338 bc-philip of macedon. Defeated Greeks.
Thucydides
Author of "History of the Pelopponesian war. (sparta vs. athens)
issus
334 bc- alexander vs darius II (modern day seria) Alexander was outnumbered but his army was better. Alexander captured Darious' wife and mother n law.
hallstatt
celtic burial mound in germany. Discovered in 1970. It includes bronze implements, cauldron, celtic art.
cuchulainn
irish celtic, great battles, magic weapons. (irish deity/hero)
Mencius
the most learned man of his age and the principal spokesman for the Confucian school. During the Period of the Warring states, he traveled widely throughout China as a political advisor.
Mencius
Chinese philosopher who refined the ideas of Confucius and spread them across China.
Wuwei
disengagement from active involvement in worldly affairs.
Wuwei
Daoist concept of a disengagement from the affairs of the world.
Han Feizi
a legalist theorist .
Han Feizi
Chinese philosopher who developed the doctrine of legalism.
Linear B
early Mycenaean written script.
Liu Bang
a determined commander and methodical planner who restored order throughout China and established himself at the head of a new dynasty.
Han Wudi
7th emperor of the han dynasty who developed a strong, centralized, Confucian state.
xiao
Filial piety, which obliged children to respect their parents and other family elders, look after their welfare, support them in old age, and remember them along with other ancestors after their deaths.
Zhuangzi
the most important Daoist work. It was named after its author, the philosopher, which provided a well-reasoned compendium of Daoist views.
Xiongnu
Nomadic people from the steppes of central Asia. Also superb horsemen.
Mahavira
"the great hero" expounded his thought to a group of disciples who formed a monastic order to perpetuate and spread his message. Turned the religion, Jainism, popular.
Ahimsa
nonviolence to other souls
boddhisatvas
enlightened beings-individuals who had reached spiritual perfection and merited to reward of nirvana, but intentionally delayed their entry into nirvana to help others who were still struggling.
Nalanda
educational institution that promoted faith. Best know of all. It was possible to study not only buddhism but also the Vedas, Hindu philosophy, logic, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.
Dharma
the basic doctrine shared by Buddhists of all sects.
Jainism
among the most influential of new religions. Believes that everything in the universe possessed a soul.
Pataliputra
capital city of the indian mauryan and gupta empires.
Pataliputra
where a central administration developed policies for the whole empire.
Magadha
the guptas based this state a crucial region because of its wealth, its dominence of the ganges valley,and its role as intermediary between the various regions of the subcontinent.
Helots
servants of the Sparten state who were not slaves but neither were they free to leave the land.
Solon
athenian aristocrat who devised a solution to class conflict in attica
Pericals
most popular athenian leader until his death.
NEAPOLIS
sicily and southern italy which was originally a Greek colony called....
Epicureans
hellenistic philosophers who taught that pleasure as in quiet satisfaction was the greatest good.
Stoics
hellinistic philosophers who encouraged their followers to lead active virtuous lives and to aid others.
aNTIGONUS
one of the hellenistic empires who took greece and macedon when alexander died.
Ptolemaic
wealthiest of the hellenistic empires
Herodotus
greek historian
plato
elaborated a systematic philosophy of great subtlety.
About this deck
By: Bianca Benoit
Created: 2011-09-14
Size: 39 flashcards
Views: 30
Created: 2011-09-14
Size: 39 flashcards
Views: 30
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