Download UNIT 1 - cloudfront.net

World History
Ms. Snyder
UNIT 1: Building Western Civilization
Standard 10.1 – Relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, in
Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western political thought.
TERMS
Judaism
Christianity
Ten Commandments
Senate
Senator
Oligarchy
Classical Civilizations
Democracy
Popular Sovereignty
Printing press
Monarchy
Divine Right
Inalienable/Unalienable
Executive
Separation of Powers
Feudalism
Constitution
Bill of Rights
“No Taxation without Representation”
Islam
City-state
Tyranny
Direct Democracy
Individual Rights
Republic
Legislative
Limited Government
Justinian’s Code
Free Will/Individual Choice
Philosopher
Citizen
Aristocracy
Indirect Democracy
Assembly - Representative
Jury
Judicial
Rule of Law
Magna Carta
Aristotle
King John I
Cleisthenes
Justinian
PEOPLE
Socrates
Solon
Johannes Guttenberg
Plato
Pericles
Martin Luther
EVENTS
Fall of the Roman Empire-476
Organizing Justinian’s Code
Protestant Reformation
Signing of the Magna Carta
Renaissance
OBJECTIVES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
What is government?
What is a democracy? What is not a democracy?
Understand the various forms of government in ancient Greece.
How did ancient Athens influence Western democracy?
How was western political ideology influenced by the ancient Greek philosophers?
Define the characteristics of ancient Rome as a republic.
How did religion influence the foundations for the development of democracy?
How are ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the US similar?
How do Judeo-Christian beliefs affect laws, reason and faith, and the duties of the individual in
western Civilization?
Why does King John I sign Magna Carta?
What influence does the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation have on the development of
democracy?