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    Final Study Guide

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    HIEU 101 Final Exam Review Sheet Identifications Ionian Revolt Themistocles Pericles Cimon Peloponnesian League Herodotus Thucydides Ephialtes Sophists Satrap Areopagus The Council of the 500 Pisistratus Agoge Stasis Peloponnesian League Aristagoras The Sixth-Parters The Definition of the Word Tyrant The Peace of Callias The Battle of Marathon Megarian Decree Boards of Ten Parthenon Aristophanes Essays 1. The great Persian invasion under Xerxes was a crucial

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    the Sophist and master of Music Damon‚ and the philosopher Anaxagoras as well as Zenon of Elea. Pericles was a very patriotic man as well as dignified and upright‚ that was why he got so much recognition. Pericles was also friends with Sophocles‚ Herodotus‚ Phidias‚ Socrates and Protagoras‚ that being another reason on how he came to be known. Not only was Pericles a popular social light‚ he was also considered an inspirational and powerful speaker

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    Sicyonian treasury at Delphi. His power was so great that‚ when he offered his daughter Agariste in marriage‚ some of the most prominent Greeks sought the honour‚ which fell upon Megacles‚ the Alcmaeoid. The story of the rival suitors is told by Herodotus. When Cleisthenes was forty years old he was a well-known politician with a reputation for clever strategy. Then in the year 514 BC Hippias’ brother and right-hand man‚ Hipparchus‚ was assassinated in a lovers quarrel. In response Hippias became

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    the tunnel of samos

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    One of the greatest engineering achievements of ancient times is a water tunnel‚ 1‚036 meters (4‚000 feet) long‚ excavated through a mountain on the Greek island of Samos in the sixth century B.C. It was dug through solid limestone by two separate teams advancing in a straight line from both ends‚ using only picks‚ hammers‚ and chisels. This was a prodigious feat of manual labor. The intellectual feat of determining the direction of tunneling was equally impressive. How did they do this

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    Quiz 1 Study Guide - HTM 2454 The following is a general guide that will provide some direction and guidance in your studying for Quiz One (chapters 1-4). Please contact me if you have any questions‚ or if any of these categories are unclear to you (via the Chat Room of course)! Chapter 1: Tourism in Perspective The definition of tourism What four things does tourism include? 1. The tourist 2. The business providing goods & services 3. The government of the host community or area 4

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    Also‚ he sees time as an accident of accidents. He states in Letter to Herodotus‚ “…we have only to reflect that we attach the attribute of time to days and nights and their parts‚ and likewise to feelings of pleasure and pain and to neutral states‚ to states of movement and states of rest‚ conceiving a peculiar accident of these to be this very characteristic which we express by the word time” (Epicurus Letter to Herodotus X.73 pg 603). As a result of time being a measurement

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    This paper serves to argue in favor of cultural relativism‚ which claims that the correct moral standards are relative to a certain culture or society. This argument suggests that “an act is morally acceptable just because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed‚ and immoral just because it is forbidden by those ideals” (Landau‚ 2001). I will first present cultural relativism and its implications. As we move past the central argument‚ I will present a series of

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    The Etruscans

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    Intro The origin of the Etruscans has been a subject of debate in historical contexts for centuries. Sources from both contemporary and ancient writings have accounted the civilisations emergence from areas such as Italy‚ Asia Minor and even Greece. While each account has validity‚ a careful study of the evidence reveals that the Etruscans most likely emerged from within Italy Body Section 1- Development of the Etruscan Civilisation In Ancient times the Etruscans were known has the predecessors

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    Athenians were at a very height of their glory and its citizens were extremely confident and flourished intellectually (Canadian Museum of History). The greatest names know in history are part of this period‚ “Herodotus‚ the `father of history’‚ lived and wrote in Athens. Socrates‚ the `father of philosophy’‚ taught in the marketplace. Hippocrates‚ `the father of medicine’‚ practiced there” (Mark‚

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    In the antiquated years‚ Persians trusted that they couldn’t be vanquished. They triumphed in practically all that they do‚ in each war they wage. Accordingly‚ they tormented diverse urban communities and locales by overcoming them. This proceeded until they got included with the Greeks in a 50-year arrangement of wars known as the Greco-Persian War. The Greco-Persian wars were arrangement of mayhem that began in 499 BC and endured in 449 BC. The arrangement of wars includes the Greek’s political

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