Exam 2 PART I 1. The early Greek city-state was divided into four social classes and they were: eupatrids‚ agroikoi‚ demiourgoi and the slaves. Eupatrids (“sons of noble fathers”) are citizens with full legal and political rights; free adult men born legitimately of citizen of parents. They had the right to vote‚ be elected into office‚ bear arms‚ and the obligation to serve when at war. Agroikoi are the farmers‚ which had no formal political rights but full legal rights. Demiourgoi are the “public
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invasion of 480-479 BC. The Greek force was very small but was determined to make a stand against the huge Persian army. The battle of Thermopylae resulted in a massive loss to the Greeks as the Persian army heavily defeating them. According to Herodotus‚ the Greek army did not have enough troops to maintain the Persians troops so they were heavily outnumbered this lead to the Persians surround the Greek Force. A major factor on the defeat of the defeat of the Greeks was of the disunity of the Greek
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The Battle of Thermopylae The Battle of Thermopylae was a significant battle of the Persian war. It consisted of 2 sides‚ the Greeks and the Persians as the king of Persia intended to invade Greece. Greece and Sparta were never in close relations but decided to put that aside and have Sparta lead the Greeks. The Spartans were disciplined and trained at a very young age as it was normal for them to send their children to the military. They came together and despite the limited amount of soldiers
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baked mud brick.” All of this was coated in a layer of lead. There were fourteen underground crypts and vaulted rooms. The structure was 400 feet by 400 feet. The gardens were as tall as the city walls‚ which were reported to be 320 feet high by Herodotus. Conflicting sources believe the walls were 80 feet high. The architecture of the Hanging Gardens shows the majesty of Babylonian structural design under Nebuchadnezzar’s rule. There is some controversy surrounding the Hanging Gardens. Were they
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As Herodotus believed‚ the primary nature of the Delphic inquiry was purely geographical. The Delphi would also designate an animal guide‚ which was derived from ver sarum‚ the sacred spring ritual‚ a ritual practiced by the community where citizens offer fruits
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These forces lined up in the centre opposite the special forces of Persian. Right and left were the army of the rest Cypriot cities. In the middle of the Persian army was the Persian general Artyvios. Onesilos chose to face Artyvios voluntarily as Herodotus
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and Harappa‚ now in Pakistan. Their planned urban townships were very advanced for their time. Metallurgy is central to most civilizations. The science of smelting was highly refined and precise in ancient India. As early as the 5th century BC‚ Herodotus‚ the eminent Greek historian‚ noted that iron was used in the arrows used by Indian and Persian soldiers. The idea of the atom is derived from the classification of the material world into five basic elements by Indian philosophers. This classification
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There were several advances throughout time that helped determine the earth’s age. James Hutton created a theory called “Plutonism” the cycling of heat‚ which produces formations of rocks on top of rocks to create the layers of earth’s surface. In result‚ plutonism lead to the discovery of uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism is the theory of all natural laws and elements that help to form the earth‚ continue to exist and function in the present as they have in the past. This theory later led Charles
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Anthology simply states‚ “Sesostris was a 12th-dynasty Egyptian king‚” other sources say the name Sesostris is a corruption of the name of that dynasty‚ “Senwosret” (Silverman 29). Sesostris was also the name used by Herodotus in tales about a 19th -dynasty Pharaoh‚ and Herodotus is notorious for avoiding accuracy in favor of flamboyance. My point is‚ for the sake of succinctness‚ I will analyze this stanza shallowly in order to support the two aforementioned intents of Eliot’s portrayal and avoid
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will bring upon wars‚ economic stances‚ and most importantly‚ previous historians point of view on the events. I decided to pinpoint were the long standing quarrel originated. It traces back to 1000B.C; to both the cities ancestors. According to Herodotus‚ the ancestors were part of the prominent tribes of Ancient Greece: the Ionians‚ the Dorians‚ and the Aeolians. Spartans believed they descended from the Dorians‚ and the Athenians believed they descended from the Ionians .Both the tribes were very
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