of Salamis - major battle when the tide turns and is a major blow to the Persian army. Miltiades the father of Kimon won the battle‚ they were from the island of Ajax‚ • Rebuilding Athens • both Miltiades and Kimon were ostracized • Kimon died at Cyrpress Egyptian campaign • • Kimon campaign preceded Alexander’s campaign by over a century • Battle of the Eurmedon river • Death blow to rebuilding their ship (persians?) • Helot Revolt in 464BCE • Siege of Mount Ithome - the hellots resisted
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Greeks had ‘no general idea of social‚ cultural or intellectual inferiority based on the colour of a person’s skin’‚ but rather on cultural practices such as speech‚ hygiene‚ and diet. This is why the ‘Greeks painted a contemptuous picture of the Persians as trousered‚ decadent softies who wore far too much perfume’‚ all of which are cultural manifestations of inferiority (Beard 2007). It is pertinent that in its early form the Greek word ‘barbarian’ (‘barbarous’) meant ‘speaking another language’
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Question: Choose TWO of the areas below and analyze the developments of major religious & philosophical ideas between 2000 BCE & 600 CE.Be sure to discuss continuities as well as changes.EuropeSouth AsiaMiddle East Thesis: The major developments in religion and philosophy in the period 2000 BCE to 600 CE were that religions moved from concrete‚ polytheistic and localized to abstract‚ monotheistic and universal. In both the Middle East and Europe‚ especially after about 500 BCE‚ there was anincrease
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with other Middle Eastern cultures‚ through language‚ cultural reform and politics. Ottoman Turkish‚ which is considered vastly different to modern “Istanbul Turkish”‚ used many loanwords from Arabic and Persian‚ and in the empire‚ Arabic was considered their scientific and legal language‚ and Persian their literary language. The Turkish spoken by uneducated Turks was referred to as “rough Turkish”‚ but would eventually become reinstated as the national language of Turkey by Atatürk. In doing so‚ Atatürk
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AP WORLD HISTORY SEMESTER EXAM TEST REVIEW Structure: The exam will consist of 40 multiple choice questions (20 questions on Unit 3‚ 15 questions on Unit 2‚ and 5 questions on Unit 1) and 2 free response essay questions (1 Comparative FRQ and 1 CCOT FRQ). The MCQ section will count for 50% of the grade and the FRQ section will count for 50%. The exam will be two hours. You have 35 minutes for the MCQ section and 85 minutes for the two FRQ questions. The test will cover content from class and from
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The Greco-Roman tradition is our own. To understand ourselves we need to understand the forces that shaped the ancient Greeks and Romans. They are both similiar and different when it comes to development and their traditions. I will discuss the ways in which the society‚ military‚ and political forces have caused these two cultures to develop. The Greek’s society is unique in the way it developed. It developed around the poleis. A city usually formed around a hill that also encompasses the
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Yudelka Rodriguez Mar 24th‚ 2014 Prof. D’Erizans Week #7 1. What factors accounted for the rapid spread of Christianity? Christianity stared in Jerusalem‚ where the romans killed Jesus trying to stop his teaching from spreading. A persecution broke down against the Jewish Christians or nazarians who were Jesus followers‚ causing them to run out of Jerusalem into Syria and other countries making them spread. These persecutions were one of the causes why Christianity begins to spread a few
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Short Essay Four: The Fall of the Roman Empire The question of what led to the decline of the Roman Empire is a complex subject which historians have debated for centuries. Edward Gibbon suggested in the late 1700’s that the moral fabric of the Roman citizenry was inferior to that of the victorious barbarian invaders. Joseph A. Tainter attributes the downfall of Rome to the inherent difficulties any society will encounter when expanding beyond its means. This idea seems especially
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FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at
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Ocean Maritime System was established for coastal trade. Commerce was then able to reach distant lands across the seas. Indians could trade in the South China sea‚ East India to the Southeastern Asian Islands‚ and from the West coast of India to the Persian Gulf and East Africa. India could reach resources all over the ancient world that other civilizations claimed unreachable by their own routes. (page 207) 3. Southern traders mainly focused on supplying salt to the sub-Saharan people of Africa‚ trading
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