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Western Civ Midterm

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Hard Western Civilization Quiz am Western Civ Midterm, erstellt von bhelfrich.school am 22/11/2015.
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Anthropologists separate early human cultures by their:
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  • Writing
  • Clothing
  • Tools
  • Food

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The Paleolithic Age is characterized by:
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  • Domestication of animals
  • The beginning of agriculture
  • A hunting and gathering existence
  • The invention of writing

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In the Paleolithic Age's division of labor by gender, it was probably women who were responsible for:
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  • Gathering of wild grains and berries
  • Making tools
  • Hunting and Fishing
  • Protecting the family with their war skills

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The Neolithic Revolution is characterized by:
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  • The development of urban based civilizations
  • The domestication of animals and the start of agriculture
  • Dependence on hunting and gathering techniques
  • The manufacture and use of iron tools

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The first metal developed to replace stone in the making of tools was:
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  • Bronze
  • Iron
  • Aluminum
  • Tin

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The development of writing first occurred during the:
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  • Paleolithic Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Neolithic Age
  • Iron Age

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The Early Dynastic Period of Sumerian city states occurred in:
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  • ca. 3500 B.C.E.
  • ca. 2800-2370 B.C.E.
  • ca. 2000-1800 B.C.E.
  • ca. 1550 B.C.E.

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Who developed the form of writing called Cuneiform?
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  • The Assyrians
  • The Egyptians
  • The Nubians
  • The Sumerians

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Which group was the first to unify much of Mesopotamia and create a true empire?
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  • The Akkadians
  • The Egyptians
  • The Sumerians
  • The Eridu

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Whose name and reputation was identified with being the first great conqueror in history?
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  • Babylon
  • Naram-Sin
  • Sargon
  • Kish

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The Mesopotamians constructed lofty towers with several stages or levels, called:
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  • Pyramids
  • Ziggurats
  • Basilicas
  • Temples

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According to the Code of Hammurabi, women in Babylonian society:
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  • Were primarily equal to men legally
  • Were less equal to men legally
  • Had more rights than men
  • Had no rights at all

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In the Mesopotamian Religion, gods:
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  • Lived in temples that were run like houses
  • Did not resemble humans in their appearance or actions
  • Represented ideas such as evil, hope, and envy
  • All options

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Slavery in Mesopotamia took the forms of:
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  • Debt Slavery and Labor Slavery
  • Chattel Slavery and Labor Slavery
  • Chattel Slavery and Debt Slavery
  • Debt Slavery, labor slavery, and Chattel Slavery

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Egypt's "black land" was:
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  • The dark fertile fields along the Nile
  • The highlands
  • Found only in the south
  • Another term for Lower Egypt

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When the old Kingdom of Egypt collapsed:
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  • Egypt immediately entered a period of great pyramid constuction
  • It was a result of the invading Hyksos
  • It occurred due to a drought
  • Egypt entered the 1st Intermediate Period which was unstable and disordered

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The New Kingdom was different from earlier periods of Egyptian history because:
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  • Egypt was ruled by foreign born Pharoahs
  • Egypt shrank in size and was limited to mainly Upper Egypt
  • Egyptian rulers pursued foreign expansion and created a large empire through war
  • Egyptians abandoned their old gods for new ones from Greece

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In ancient Egypt, Maat was:
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  • The legendary creator god who had blessed Egypt
  • The Pharoah's chief advisor
  • The highest virtue combining the ideas of truth, justice, and order
  • The name for all areas outside of Egypt

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Slaves in Ancient Egypt:
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  • Were always taken from the poor classes within Egyptian society
  • Could hope to be accepted into the general population if freed
  • Performed society's household labors only
  • All of the above

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The Hittites:
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  • Were innovators and helped bridge culture
  • Were isolated from other peoples
  • Lacked strong central government
  • Were pacifists

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The Assyrians were famous for their:
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  • Fierce and well disciplined military
  • Delicate bronze and copper artwork
  • Mathematical and astronomical skills
  • Limitations on the power of their kings

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The Neolithic Revolution shows dramatic changes in settlement, etc. [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
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  • 10,000 Years ago
  • 2370 BCE
  • 30 BCE
  • 3100-1200BCE

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The Bronze Age [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
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  • 1792-1750 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 1400-1200 BCE

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The Old Kingdom of Egypt [blank_start](date)[blank_end]
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  • 2700-2200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 1400-1200 BCE
  • 30 BCE

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The Reign of Sargon who unified all of Mesopotamia as conqueror [blank_start](Date)[blank_end]
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  • 2370 BCE
  • 1550-1075 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 2700-2200 BCE

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The Reign of Hammurabi who created the first code of laws [blank_start](date)[blank_end]
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  • 1792-1750 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 30 BCE

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The New Kingdom in Egypt ([blank_start]Date[blank_end])
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  • 1,550-1075 BCE
  • 10,000 years ago
  • 2370 BCE
  • 30 BCE

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The Span of the Hittite Empire [blank_start]date[blank_end]
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  • 1,400-1,200 BCE
  • 3,100-1,200 BCE
  • 612-539 BCE
  • 2370 BCE

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The Second Assyrian Empire conquers Egypt [blank_start]date[blank_end]
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  • 671 BCE
  • 30 BCE
  • 2370 BCE
  • 10,000 years ago

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Ethical Monotheism was pioneered by the:
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  • Babylonians
  • Egyptians
  • Israelites
  • Chinese

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Called the "Father of the Faithful," many consider him to be the symbolic founder of three of the world's largest religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:
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  • Moses
  • Mohammad
  • Socrates
  • Abraham

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The HEBREWS saw their God as:
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  • The only god in existence
  • The same god that the Mesopotamians call Marduk
  • The chosen diety among many gods who might be worshipped
  • The same God that the Egyptians called Aten

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For the Hebrew's the shift to the exclusive worship of a single god occurred:
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  • With Abraham's journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan
  • During the Exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses
  • When Solomon built the great temple in Jerusalem
  • With the start of the teachings of Jesus

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The Torah is:
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  • The primary religious text for the Persians
  • The code of ethics among Ionian Greeks
  • God's holy law as part of Hebrew Scripture
  • Spartan training committing soldiers to the polis

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The first Israelite prophets contributed to allow the following except:
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  • The campaign to turn people against false gods and toward Yaweh
  • The purification of Jewish faith by demanding righteousness of its followers
  • The enslavement by Jews in Egypt before Moses led them to freedom
  • The religious notion of Israelite national success by following their god's "plan"

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The Span of the Neo-Babylonian Empire [blank_start]date[blank_end]
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  • 612-539 BCE
  • 1550-1075 BCE
  • 3100-1200 BCE
  • 671 BCE

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The defeat of the Egyptians by the Roman Emperor Octavian [blank_start]date[blank_end]
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  • 30 BCE
  • 671 BCE
  • 2370 BCE
  • 10,000 Years ago

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The [blank_start]Bronze Age[blank_end] marks the rise of metal tools, weapons, and Mesopotamia.
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  • Bronze Age

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[blank_start]Aten[blank_end] was declared the creator god by Amunhotep IV to gain power
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  • Aten

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In [blank_start]Chattel Slavery[blank_end], people were owned as property and had few if any rights
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  • Chattel Slavery

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The [blank_start]Euphrates[blank_end] "Naturally" aided Mesopotamia to survive and flourish
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  • Euphrates

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[blank_start]Divination[blank_end] was chance observations or rituals to find your destiny that played a bit role in Mesopotamian religion as it revealed a person's destiny.
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  • Divination

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[blank_start]Khufu[blank_end] was the pharaoh that created the largest pyramid ever
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  • Khufu

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The [blank_start]Red Land[blank_end] was the desert cliffs and valleys bordering the Nile River
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  • Red Land

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[blank_start]Sexagesimal[blank_end] was the Sumerian mathematical system based on the number 60.
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  • Sexagesimal

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[blank_start]Naram-Sin[blank_end] declared himself a god and was a powerful Akkadian ruler
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  • Naram-Sin

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[blank_start]Manumission[blank_end] was the rare freeing of slaves in Egypt: they could rejoin society.
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  • Manumission

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The pharaohs were considered god kings during the [blank_start]Old Kingdom[blank_end]
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  • Old Kingdom

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[blank_start]Jericho[blank_end] was the First Neolithic town with a massive stone wall for protection.
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  • Jericho

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[blank_start]Kish[blank_end] was large city in Babylonia with history's first kings
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  • Kish

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During the [blank_start]Middle Kingdom[blank_end], the pharaohs changed and became more "in touch" with their people.
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  • Middle Kingdom

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[blank_start]Assyria[blank_end] was the Northern ecological zone of Mesopotamia
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  • Assyria

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According to the Jewish religion, how should man best serve God?
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  • Through rituals and prayer
  • Through heroic deeds
  • Through ethical responsibility following God's divine plan
  • Through fasting and other forms of self discipline or denial

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The so called ten lost tribes originally lived in:
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  • Judah
  • Turkey
  • Jerusalem
  • Israel

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The Babylonian captivity began on this date:
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  • 961 BCE
  • 722 BCE
  • 586 BCE
  • 539 BCE

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The reign of King Solomon who built the great temple in Jerusalem lasted from:
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  • 1000-961 BCE
  • 987-924 BCE
  • 961-922 BCE
  • 722-685 BCE

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In the end, the Messiah would do what in the Jewish faith:
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  • Convert all polytheists to monotheism
  • Save sinners from the Day of Judgment
  • Would re-instruct the Jews in the lessons of God's divine plan
  • Would establish the kingdom of God on earth

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Some primary characteristics of Greek society that CONNECTED them to other civilizations included:
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  • Magic, incantation, and polytheistic divinity in their lives and laws
  • Belief in the need for a strong, authoritarian government
  • Concern with personal salvation through supernatural union with God.
  • Raising questions concerning the nature of the world around them

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Thales is regarded as the first Greek philosopher because he...
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  • Demonstrated the existence of gods scientifically
  • Compared Egyptian and Mesopotamian religions with those of Greece
  • Explained the origins of the world in naturalistic terms
  • Argued the importance of ethical behavior

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Protagoras of Abdera utilized a naturalistic philosophy of the divine by stating:
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  • The size and beauty of nature meant gods existed and created the world
  • He couldn't agree or disagree with he existence of gods because he had no real proof either way
  • Through philosophy man can become close to the divine by examining his own actions
  • There was a god for each of the elements of the world

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The first people to recognize Greek beliefs were not universally accepted were:
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  • The Sophists
  • The Athenians
  • The Ionians
  • The Macedonians

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The atomists believed the world was made of "atoms" and these two men founded the school:
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  • Leucippus of Colophon and Heraclitus of Ephesus
  • Parmenides of Elea and his pupil Zeno
  • Anaximander and Democritus of Athens
  • Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera

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The Cynics would MOST LIKELY believe:
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  • In material progress
  • The concept of the polis
  • That a person's character was a matter of knowledge gained through free experience
  • None of these

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The Sophists valued which following of the techniques and were paid to teach them:
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  • Observation, Dialectic, Analysis
  • Rhetoric, Argumentation, Calculation
  • Dialectic, Argumentation, Rhetoric
  • Observation, Calculation, Analysis

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The polis AKA Greek city state, provided the following for it's citizens:
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  • Political Organization
  • Cultural characteristics like religion and common practices
  • Theoretical belief that they all came from common ancestry
  • All of these

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Which of the following philosophers wanted people to seek "the greatest improvement of the soul?
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  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Xenophon
  • Aristotle

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A [blank_start]covenant[blank_end] is a solemn and formal pledge between 2 or more parties
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  • covenant

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[blank_start]Anaximander[blank_end] believed in an undefined and unlimited element that the world emerged from
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  • Anaximander

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[blank_start]Thucydides[blank_end] explained history strictly through human nature and chance
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  • Thucydides

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[blank_start]Critias[blank_end] was a Sophist who believed the gods were invented by "clever men" to control others
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  • Critias

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[blank_start]Aristotle[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
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  • Aristotle

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[blank_start]Hippocrates[blank_end] looked to diagnose and cure disease without aid from the supernatural
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  • Hippocrates

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An [blank_start]Episteme[blank_end] was a body of true and unchanging wisdom
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  • Episteme

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[blank_start]Socrates[blank_end] lived from 469-399 BCE
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  • Socrates

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[blank_start]Achaemenids[blank_end] freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity and let them go home
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  • Achaemenids

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[blank_start]Logos[blank_end] was the guiding principle of the world meaning "word, language, speech, and reason."
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  • Logos

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[blank_start]Empedocles[blank_end] thought that reality was four basic elements shaped by Love and Strife
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  • Empedocles

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[blank_start]Diogenes[blank_end] abandoned the idea of the polis completely
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  • Diogenes

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[blank_start]Plato[blank_end] lived from 429-347 BCE
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  • Plato

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The [blank_start]patriarch[blank_end] was the male leader of a group or family
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  • patriarch

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The [blank_start]Assyrians[blank_end] destroyed Israel and scattered the Israelites in 722 BCE
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  • Assyrians
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