Western Civ Notes.
Words to google
Eunomia
Isonomia
Spartans avoid commerce why?
Professor wrightson theory is the italians fear death the most because they eat the best
Warrior aristocracy
500 bushmen 1 bushman for 1 drachma
Gave merchants who didn't own land equality overthrowing warrior aristocracy
500 aristocrats
500-300 horsemen cavalry
300-200 hoplites weak armor
200 rowers navy
Poverty and overpopulation egypt's big issue
Athens council chosen by lottery
Pisistratus
Pericles
Socrates
Plato
Abstract family gives individuality give or serve the polis gives u more praises as individual
Order / chaos mesopotamia and egypt
Reason for greatness same reason for demise hummus
Achilles alexander the great (second coming of achilles) both individuals
Alexander great disobeyed and betrayed dad
Egypt had Me at
Mesopotamia had book of hammurabi
Supplemental food supply was done planting crops in foothills and agriculture began
Egypt had predictable nile
Mesopotamia had tigris and euphrates rivers very unpredictable and destructive
Growing crops leads to food surplus to growing population leads to more etc.
Egypt's 3 kingdoms old middle and new kingdom
Amun and ra were two mythical figures that new kingdom combined to make the amun-ra
Hammurabi preached that the after life consists of dark cave and drinking sand and eating clay so live in the now
Egypt lived by the be good now so that u have paradise in the afterlife if soul outweighs feather u r doomed
God of mesopotamia marduk god of chaos
Democracy comes from forced equality
Bronze made with copper and tin
Iron discovered by accident
Goddess timet believed to be god caused chaos
Osiris god of vegetation
ra/re is god of sun
Hypothesis made by finding same thing written in 3 different ways
3 regions had rice china wheat mesopotamia and corn .
Nomadic women discovered agriculture
If u build a house and it collapse killing someone son your son must die too eye for an eye situation
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