Geography
the study of the earth's physical and cultural features
What is geography?
the land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
egyptian kings worshiped as gods
What are Pharaohs?
Who are the Minoans?
a dispersion of people from their homeland
What is Diaspora?
the study of physical features of the earth's surface (the nature of earth)
What is physical geography?
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
What is a city - state
egyptian writing system
What are Hieroglyphics?
settled in Southern Greece
Who are the Mycaneans?
believed that the gods did not exist and that man-made his own destiny
Who was Sophists?
includes cultural features such as language, art, architecture, religion, food, etc.
What is human geography
belief in many gods
What is Polytheism?
for business and bureaucracy, literature and science
What is Hieratic?
fought by Mycenaean Greeks & Trojans in Anatolia, end of Mycenaean power
What was the Trojan war?
most famous critic of Sophists believed that there was a standard of truth and justice in the world
Who was Socrates?
a society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
What is civilization?
government run by religious leaders
What is a Theocracy?
the first female pharaoh who built a vast trading empire
Who is Hatshepsut?
peninsula composed of mountain ranges. Not arable land and Hinder transportation. Island chains with skilled sailors and mild climate.
What is the geography of Greece?
student of Socrates
Plato
Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Human-Environment, Interaction
What are the 5 themes of geography?
The laws helped unify the system of justice and rule. The laws dealt with everything from family life to laws about the property. There were harsh punishments for crimes and it was the "eye for an eye" principle. The punishments varied by gender and class. This helped society function with little to no problems.
How did the codification of law by Hammurabi help build a more cohesive Sumerian society?
Egypt was located on the Nile river. This made Egypt the center of the world of trade and the floods made it easier to harness the river as an irrigation tool.
How did Egypt's location help to make it a prosperous society and a mighty empire?
Draco made everyone equal in front of the law. Solon let every free adult male vote. Cleisthenes let the council be chosen by a lot so that poor man had a chance to participate. Pericles made sure they got paid.
What did Athenian democracy look like?
During the Hellenistic period, Greek culture flourished, spreading through the Mediterranean and into the Near East and Asia. Alexandria became the center of the cultural Hellenistic empire. The art of realism came about during the Hellenistic period this left us with tons of ideas and statues that we still look back on for ideas today.
How did Hellenism preserve Greek culture?