Minoans
Sir Arthur Evans
Writing, Religion & Commerce
Destruction
Mycenaeans
Heinrich Schliemann
Homer
Writing, Economy
Decline
Greek Dark Age & Dorians
Archaic Period
Hesiod: Theogony and Works & Days
Emergency of Democracy
Lyric Poetry: Sappho of Lesbos
Presocratics
Athens
Dracon & Solon
Ecclesia
Strategoi
Pericles
Athenian Society: Citizens, Medics, Women
Hetairi/Pederasty
Sparta
Messenian Wars & Lycurgan Reforms
Krypteia
Spartan Women
Persian Wars
Impressive Expansion of Persia
Herodotus
Darius I
Battle of Marathon
Xerxes
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea
Religion, Philosophy & Art in Classical Greece
Pan-Hellenic Games
Shrines & Mystery cults
Sophists
Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
Drama: Origins & Purpose
Tragedy & Comedy
Famous Playwrights
Greek Temples: Doric, Ionic, Corinthean
Parthenon
Statuary Art: Characteristics & Sculptors
Politeia vs. Idiotai
Golden Mean: Sophrosyne, Arete
The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides
Causes of the War, Strategies
The Plague in Athens
Peace & Resumption of war
The Syracuse & Melian Disasters
Battle of Aegospotami
2B STUDY GUIDE EXAM II
Coming of the Hellenistic Age
Philip of Macedon
Arguments regarding the Macedonia Invasion
Battle of Charonea
Alexander the Great
The Diadochi
Consequences of Alexander’s Campaigns
Hellenistic Philosophy: Cynicism, Epicureanism
Hedonism & Stoicism
Tyche
Rome
Etruscans
Romans
Myths of Origins
Patria Potestas
Conflict of Orders
Roman Government: Consuls, Censors & Senate
Punic Wars
Hannibal
Gravitas
Gracchan Crisis
Legacy of Marius & Sulla
First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey & Crassus
Second Triumvirate: Antony, Octavius & Lepidus
Roman Revolution
Reign of Augustus
Nero
Marcus Aurelius
Diocletian reforms
Constantine: Legacy
Theodosius I
Rome sacked in the 5th Century: Visigoth & Vandals
Justinian: Legacy
Why did Rome Fall?
Christianity
Essene
Contributions to the growth of Christianity
Why Christians were persecuted
Augustine
Jerome
Benedict
Early Middle Ages: The "Dark Ages?"
How the Barbarians became successors to Rome
Wergeld
Ulfilas
Barbarian Heritage to the West
The Franks
Merovingian & Primogeniture
Charles Martel & the Battle of Tours
Carolingians
Pepin the short
Charlemagne
Einhard
Waves of Invaders
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Vikings & King Knut
Year 1000 AD
Feudalism
Lord Vassal Relationship
Homage Investiture Ceremony