THE ANCIENT GREEKS NAME ___Harrison Funk_________________________________ To complete this worksheet use the information found on the following website: http://www.mythologyteacher.com/GreekIntro.html GREEK INTRO 1. At roughly what time period was the golden age of ancient Greece? 500 B.C. 2. Who was an ancient Greek writer of fables? Homer 3. Who was a Greek mathematician? Pythrogras 4. Why should Americans study ancient Greece? We oew everything to ancient Greece. GREEK CITY-STATES
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THE REJECTED SHEPHERD: EXAMINING FULFILLED PROPHECIES OF MESSIAH FROM THE BOOK ZECHARIAH A paper presented to Dr. John Saunders In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Course Completion for Haggai-Malachi by Keith J. Holland April 2007 Holland 1 CHAPTER ONE Introduction The nation of Israel has been waiting for their Messiah for millennia. Prophesied since the days of Adam‚ promised to Abraham‚ Isaac‚ and Jacob‚ anticipated by Moses‚ and lauded by David‚ the Jewish
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The empire had a diverse landscape due to its great size. It contains marshy fertile shores along the Nile and the salty shores along the six seas it borders. Also‚ the empire contains the Fertile Crescent in between and around the esteemed Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Most of the farming away from
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Chapter Four! Greece and Iran 1000 – 30 B.C.E. ⅠAncient Iran 1000 - 500 B.C.E • Also known as the Persian Empire. • Little written materials are left. A. Geography and Resources • Northwest Iran was more open to attacks by the nomads of Central Asia. • Irrigation in the first millennium B.C.E. enabled people to move to open plains so they could plant. • Under ground irrigation channels. • Human survival depended on a delicate ecological balance. B. the Rise of the Persian Empire • “Iranians”
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Antigone: Moral Law vs Civil Law When it comes to morality‚ what is right and wrong based on a person’s personal beliefs‚ the story of Antigone is a great literary reference towards the internal struggles of an individual’s morality. Antigone chose to attribute herself with moral law instead of Creon’s rash and destructive civil law. Antigone felt that no one had the right to decide another’s fate‚ let alone the fate of someone else’s deceased body. Antigone believed that her brother deserved a
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Alexander the Great was the King of Macedonia from 336 B.C to 323 B.C‚ during this period he conquered the Persian Empire‚ spread the Greek culture and language throughout Asia Minor‚ Egypt and Macedonia to India (Fiero 136). The Hellenistic period started with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C and ended in 31 B.C‚ in this time the Greeks were dominant throughout the Mediterranean‚ which is why it receives the name of Hellenistic‚ because is derived from the Greek “Hellas” which means Greece
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The Hellenistic period between 334 and 323 B.C.‚ Alexander the Great and his armies conquered much of the known world‚ creating an empire that stretched from Greece and Asia Minor through Egypt and the Persian empire in the Near East to India. This unprecedented contact with cultures far and wide disseminated Greek culture and its arts‚ and exposed Greek artistic styles to a host of new exotic influences. The death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. traditionally marks the beginning of the Hellenistic
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Compare and contrast Henry’s use of rhetoric to affect others in his Harfleur speeches with the effectiveness of the language in Anthony and Brutus’ speeches In Henry V‚ Henry uses rhetoric very effectively as he persuades the Governor at Harfleur to surrender and encourages his troops onward with his ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech. This is very similar to Anthony and Brutus of Julius Caesar as they use rhetoric to influence the ‘mob’; firstly Brutus wins the crowd over and they believe the
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(Persia) Cyrus the Great: established a massive Persian empire across the northern Middle East and into northwestern India by 550 B.C.E; successor state to Mesopotamian empires. Zoroastrianism: Animist religion hat saw material existence as battle between forces of good and evil; stressed the importance of moral choice; righteous lived on after death in “House of Song”; chief religion of Persian Empire. (Ancient Greece) Olympic Games: one of the pan-helenic rituals observed by all Greek
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence‚ then‚ is not an act‚ but a habit.” This just one of Aristotle’s famous quotes and is probably the most important of them all. Excellence isn’t an act it’s just a habit something you just do without thinking about the thing you’re excellent at. In the Leaving a Legacy unit‚ many social and historical movements‚ as well as people and legacies‚ have been explored. Some of these people are still going on or have left a legacy worth learning about‚ one of which
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