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Athens “Golden Age of Athens” Achievements of:
-Golden Age of Athens took place in 5th century BC (480-430 BCE)
-Golden Age took place after Peloponnesian wars (Athens verse Sparta) and before the Persian wars
-Achievements: Greeks excelled in philosophy history (Herodotus and Thucydides) Drama (Sophocles and Aeschylus) Sculpture (Balance between realism and idealism) Arts Architecture (Parthenon 447-432 BCE)

Aristotle on government, ethics and epistemology:
-Aristotle was a pupil of Plato and was tutor of Alexander the great
-Ethics: practice in moderation
-Theory of knowledge: true objects = nature (everything around us), use deductive and inductive reasoning, use observation and the five senses
-Government:
True False
One Monarchy
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- Wants to stop lay investiture, clean/reform church
-excommunicated Henry IV

Gallican Church-
-the catholic church in France
-infallibility was in the entire episcopal body with the pope as head
-1682-1790
-- This one was weird lol and it wasnt in the textbook, and she never discussed it in class so i looked it up online... so if you want more/better info just google it =]
Geneva-
- center of Calvin's reformed church
- "City that was a church"- Calvinist church, model of Christian community for 16th cent reformers
- Puritans= Calvanists in Geneva
- had a consistory-> very strict/severe
-"most perfect school of Christ" claim 16th cent scholars

Guilds-
- united enterprise, greater security, less risk of loss than individual enterprise
- "family", had rules, all =, no sneaky tactics
- determined quality, quantity and price ( "just price")
- economic security
- looked after sick, poor, widowed and orphaned.
-learned from a master 9 apprentice)-> created a masterpiecce_>

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