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Introduction to Ancient History

This class was created by Brainscape user Hal Ferrier. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Hal Ferrier
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Decks in this class (15)

Lecture 1 - Natural environment
Earthquakes 1,
Volcanoes 2,
Produce of greece 3
12  cards
Status, Wealth And Poverty
Types of wealth 1,
Wealth and political participatio...,
Rome land trade and manufacture 3
9  cards
Them And Us
Other easterners 1,
Egypt and herodotus 2,
Land of wonders 3
12  cards
Disease In the Greco-Roman world
Other predisposing factors 1,
Location 2,
Problems of interpretation 3
7  cards
Lecture 2 - Telling the time
Nature as a time measure 1,
Natural landscape 2,
Human landscape 3
14  cards
Lecture 3 - Living off the land
Greek climate and terrain 1,
Italian climate and terrain 2,
Subsistence and surplus 3
12  cards
Lecture 4 - city and empire
Eclogues 1,
Founding towns 2,
Alexander the great 3
5  cards
Lecture 5 - Travel in the Greco-Roman world
By sea 1,
On land 2,
Countermoves 3
5  cards
Lecture 6 - documentary evidence
Inscriptions 1,
Papyri 2
2  cards
Lecture 7 - ancient literary sources
Political lessons 1,
Loss of political power 2,
Letters 3
7  cards
Key people
Cicero 1,
Cato 2,
Dionysius of halicanarssus 3
10  cards
The Ancient Economy
Economy without money linear b 1,
Invention of coinage 2,
The markets 3
7  cards
Religion 1
How does religion work 1,
Priests 2,
Communications 3
11  cards
Religion 2
Religion and politics 1,
Religious feuds political feuds 2,
Lex ogulnia 300 bc 3
5  cards
Slavery
Aristotle and slavery 1,
Slave society 2,
Slaves in rome 3
9  cards

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