CLCIV 101 Midterm: CLCIV written exam 1 key terms
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Key terms chapter 1: a small, far-off land. Attic: from attica, the countryside around athens. Bronze age: began in 3000 b. c. e. farmers grew wheat, barley, and olive-trees. Others herded sheep in the hills and cut wood for fire and such. The others lived by the sea were fisherman, traders, or pirates. Mesopotamia: where civilizations lived in the bronze age. Without god or gods to rule and to reveal the truth, many greeks concluded that human reason was the only guide to truth. Demokratia: the greek word democracy meaning power of the people, in which all male citizens debated and voted on major issues. Archaic period: 7th and 6th centuries b. c. Classical period: 5th and 4th centuries b. c. Hellenistic period: 323 b. c. to 30 b. c. Hellenes: greek-speakers, live in cities scattered from spain to ukraine. They agree that their ancestral home, hellas, lay around the aegean sea. Hellas: greek ancestral home around the aegean sea.