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Historical Terms and Concepts to Know- Chapter 10 *Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what? Homer The Iliad and The Odyssey Mycenaeans Trojan War King Minos and Minoans Polis Minoan Linear A and B helot Pericles Alexander the Great Antigonus Ptolemy Seleucus Olympic Games Socrates Aristotle Plato tyrant Spartan Solon Persian Wars Darius, Xerxes Peloponnesian War Hellenistic Alexander of Macedon empires Sappho Stoics *Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what- chapter 11 Paul of Tarsus Po River Senate patricians tribunes Gaul Carthage latifundium/-ia republic Tiber River consuls plebeians dictator Celtics Punic Wars Julius Caesar Octavian Augustus Marc Antony Cleopatra pax romana mare nostrum paterfamilias Colosseum bread and circuses Jesus of Nazareth Historical terms and Concepts to Know- chapter 12 *Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what? Han Wudi Bactria monsoon winds Chang’an Kush Hindu Kush Mountains Himalaya Mountains Madagascar Taklamakan Desert Kashgar Taxila Caspian Sea Persian Gulf Palmyra Arabia Tyre Antioch Arabian Sea Red Sea Damascus South China Sea Ceylon Guangzhou Pondicherry missionaries epidemics Merv Bukhara Samark and Khotan Dunhuang Parthia Expatriate merchants Java Sumatra Nestorians Manicheaism syncretic/syncretism bubonic plague Diocletian smallpox Constantine Constantinople Visigoths Huns Attila Bishop of Rome western and eastern Roman empires 476 C.E. St. Augustine Essay Questions to ponder for test 1. In what ways were the Mycenaeans similar to the later Athenians and Spartans of the classical age? What legacy did the Mycenaean period leave behind? 2. What were the achievements and limitations of Greek democracy? In what ways could the experiences of the Greeks have influenced the early American thinkers in the formation of their republic? 3. What were the major historical legacies of the Hellenistic age? In what ways was this period different from the earlier Hellenic age? 4. Discuss the Greek Olympic Games. What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks? 5. What could the nature of Greek drama and comedy tell us about how the Greeks viewed themselves? What makes their drama and comedy unique? 6. Discuss the nature of the Homeric epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. How influential were these works to the Greeks? In what ways do these works express the Greek worldview? 7. Examine the social structure of the ancient Greeks. What role did women play in their society? Were there variations of the social structure among the different city-states? 8. Examine the relationship between the Greeks and the Persians. How influential were the Persian Wars on later Greek history? 9. Examine the role that family played in ancient Rome. What role did women play inside and outside the home? Did women have more or less freedom in Rome than in other societies? 10. Examine the reign of Augustus Caesar. What steps did he take to restore order and implement the pax romana? What were the long-term effects of his influence? 11. Examine the intellectual world of the Romans. How did the Greeks influence the Romans? In what ways were they different? 12. Why did the Romans create such a huge and long lasting empire, when the Greeks were never able to unify? Did character play a role? 13. Compare and contrast the Roman and Chinese empires. What made these states so powerful and influential for such a long period of time? 14. How did trade shape the Roman world? How did trade work to bring the Roman world together? 15. Compare the status of women in Rome to their status in the rest of the ancient world. How was the role of women different in Rome than in the Greek city-states? 16. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of trade? How did trade along the silk roads influence the societies that engaged in trade? 17. Compare and contrast the spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. What were the social and cultural implications of this movement of different faiths? 18. What role did nomadic tribes play in the decline of the Roman empire? Examine the role of Attila the Hun in detail. 19. Examine the establishment of the silk roads. How did increased trade along these routes influence the participating societies? 20. Examine the spread of Christianity. How was it helped along by the established trade routes? How did it evolve in the later Roman period? 21. Discuss the spread of epidemic diseases along the trade routes. Examine the consequences of these diseases in the Han and Roman empires. 22. Examine Map 12.1, The silk roads, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E. Follow the trade routes and discuss what items would be traded from country to country. How did trade along these routes foster relationships between societies?