CLA230H1 Midterm: CLA230 Review Midterm
Document Summary
Mesopotamia: the land between rivers , present day iraq mesopotamian kings claimed they had special relationships with the gods, and unless they interceded, the gods would not smile upon humans. Demokratia: theory of equal qualification male citizens debates and voted on the major issues democracy . Archaic period: begins with the invention of greek alphabet, c. 800 b. c, the iliad and the odyssey, attributed to homer, are written down, c. Hellenistic period: begins with the death of alexander, 323 b. c, callimachus, c. 305-240 b. c, three punic wars are waged between rome and carthage, 264-241. B. c. , 218-201 b. c. , 146 b. c: plautus, roman playwright, dies, c. 180 b. c. Hellenes: greek speakers from the ancestral home hellas (around the. Hellas: ancestral home of the greeks (hellenes) lay around the aegean. Sean, roughly the area of the modern greek nation-state plus the west coast of modern turkey.