Trevor Smith
9/14/04
History 100 Documentation Worksheet
1) “They belonged by law to the pharaoh who granted them in turn to private individuals
or to the great trusts that managed the temples.”1
2) Most Egyptians were farmers living in small villages. They had to pay taxes and they
might have faced conscription into the army. They grew all kinds of crops, they raised
cattle and made wine as well, but the Papyrus was very important because of its uses as a
sort of paper. Most of the farmer’s life was in the fields, working the crops and drawing
water from the well.2
3) “If a man practice robbery and is captured, that man shall be put to death.”3
4) Be quite and respectful, share do not have too much, wait until somebody else is sated
before you have some yourself, but don’t refuse it if it is offered, don’t be cocky and be
cautious because who knows what will happen as a result of your insolence.4
5) The catacombs were cemeteries used by the Christians under Rome, beginning in the
second century A.D. and they stopped being built at about 550 A.D. They started out as
being merely cemeteries, but eventually they became shrines and gathering places for
funeral rites and anniversaries of the deaths of martyrs. They weren’t used as hiding
places for the Christians. They buried their dead in the catacombs because it was cheaper
than buying land and then burying the dead.5
6) They Olympic games were held in the honor of the gods, all those participating in the
Olympics were male. They began in 776 B.C., they were held every 4 years for nearly 12
centuries, though there is some evidence that points to the fact that they might have
begun much earlier. Eventually most contestants competed in the nude. After they
ceased, the next Olympic game was held in 1896 in Athens, though the Olympic torch
idea didn’t happen until 1928 in Amsterdam.6
7) “The Lacedaemonians were the first who in their athletic exercises stripped naked and
rubbed themselves over with oil. But this was not the ancient custom; athletes formerly,
even when they were contending at Olympia, wore loin-cloths, a practice which lasted
until quite lately, and still prevails among Barbarians, especially those of Asia, where the
combatants at boxing and wrestling matches wear loin-cloths.”7
8) The Hebrews entered Egypt, but shortly afterwards, the Egyptians regained control of
their country and enslaved the Hebrews.8
1
Hause, Steven and Maltby, William. Essentials of Western Civilization.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001) 12.
2
Ibid, 13.
3
Rogers, Perry M.. Aspects of Western Civilization 5th ed.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003) 7.
4
Ibid, 20.
5
“The Christian Catacombs Of Rome,” <http://www.catacombe.roma.it/en/intro.html>
(Date unknown).
6
“The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games,”
<http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml>
(Date unknown).
7
Thucydides, “The History of the Peloponnesian War”
<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greekgames.html> (404 BCE).
8
Helton, Jennifer. History 100 Lecture. Canada College, Redwood City CA. September 13, 2004
Works Cited
Hause, Steven and Maltby, William. Essentials of Western Civilization.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001) 12.
Ibid, 13.
Helton, Jennifer. History 100 Lecture.
Canada College, Redwood City CA. September 13, 2004
Rogers, Perry M.. Aspects of Western Civilization 5th ed.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003) 7.
Ibid, 20.
Thucydides, “The History of the Peloponnesian War”
<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greekgames.html> (404 BCE).
“The Christian Catacombs Of Rome,”
<http://www.catacombe.roma.it/en/intro.html> (Date unknown).
“The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games,”
<http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml> (Date unknown).