Technical Terms
Belief in one god or deity.
Monotheistic
A political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages.
City-State
Author who recorded historical fiction and the tales of the Trojan War.
Homer
Ancient "writing" on cave walls.
Pictographs
First Roman Emperor to look to the East for hope and centered it as the economic and religious center of the empire.
Constantine
The long period of time before people invented writing.
Prehistory
A person votes or makes decisions on your behalf.
Republic
Philip the Great developed this method of warfare and it was used by his son, Alexander the Great to conquer Persia.
Phalanx
Domed like ceilings for palaces and churches with very little art.
Romanesque
Notable Eastern emperor, credited with funding the building of the church called "Haggai Sophia."
Justinian
A society’s beliefs, values, and practices.
Culture
Outside of a city-state the surrounding areas that fell under its control during the Neolithic Period.
Steppes
Greeks forced their opponents after their conquest to adapt to Greek culture and its values. They had to make it their own.
Acculturation
Typically in blues and reds used in the late Middle Ages within books. Often depicted floral scenes to enhance the pages of a book.
Illumination
"Christ is created NOT begotten."
Arius
Blending of two or more cultures.
Acculturation
One votes for themselves and the rule (or law) is decided by a popular vote on all items.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Who said it?
"Our citizens attend both to public and private duties, and do not allow absorption in their own various affairs to interfere with their knowledge of the city's life."
Pericles
Watercolor paintings on wet plaster.
Frescoes
Unlike the western church, Eastern priests had more liberties including __.
Marriage
The study of humans, both past and present using predominantly culture.
Anthropology
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
When there is a mandated religion and its rules govern the society.
Theocracy
Carthaginian who threatened to conquer the Greeks.
Hannibal
Allowed architects to build taller and move the weight of the building out.
Flying Buttresses
The movement in which all Greek churches did away with 3-D images of Christ and other church saints and leaders. Leaving the churches bare.