bridges‚ tax collection and provisioning of armies. Politically speaking Augustus “wanted advice without consent. A committee of senators and magistrates served as a permanent advisory body.” (Roman Empire Chapter) Augustus cut the size of the military down from 50 legions to only 28. This would assist in getting rid of renegade army commanders and lightened the burden of taxes. Socially things were great under Augustus’ leadership;” urban poor enjoyed a more efficient system of free grain distribution
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Archaic Smile | | The Calf Bearer sculpture has this element. | 7. | Archeological discoveries have shown that Homer’s Iliad may have been based on real events and people. | | True | 8. | Caesar Augustus modeled himself after Pericles and his Rome after Periclean Athens‚ constructing monuments in marble with classical elements mixed with distinctly Roman elements. | | True | 9. | Caryatids are | | Columns in the form of women |
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Cyrus the Great forms Persian Empire. 509 Beginnings of Roman republic. 470-430 Athens at its height: Pericles‚ Phidias‚ Sophocles‚ Socrates. 450 Twelve Tables of Law 431-404 Peloponnesian Wars. 359-336 Phillip II of Macedonia 338-323 Macedonian Empire‚ Alexander the Great. 300-100 Hellenistic period. 264-146 Rome’s Punic Wars. 49 Julius Caesar becomes dictator‚ assassinated in 44. 27 Augustus Caesar seizes power; rise of Roman Empire. C. 4 Birth of Jesus c.30 Crucifixion of Jesus 63 Forced
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During the later first century BC‚ there had been internal conflicts which led up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Eventually‚ Augustus would be chosen as the first Roman Emperor to unite the internally divided Roman lands. (Augustus‚ n.d.) In the same year‚ 27 BC‚ Roman statesman Marcus Vispsanius Agrippa was commissioned to begin construction of the Pantheon. This original structure was destroyed by fire in 80 CE. The second
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Peloponnesian War Alexander The Great Diocletian Mandate of Heaven Chinese Dynastic Cycle Augustus Jesus Paul Constantine Minoan Hannibal Mycenean Darius Trojan War Homer Hellenistic Gaul Pax Romana Pericles Answer the following questions: 1. Who dominated Greece after the Persian Wars? 2. The Peloponnesian War was between what two groups
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Hammurabi Djoser Imhotep Sesostris III Aahmes Neferteri Hatshepsut Akhenaten Thutmose Shabaka Pianky Sheba Azana Solomon Sargon Darius Xerxes Cyrus Pericles Homer Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle Alexander Philip Ptolemy I Hannibal Cleopatra VII Julius Caesar Augustus Caesar Justinean Jesus Diocletian Constantine Paul Muhammad Sundiata Mansa Musa Charlemagne Thomas Aquinas Ghengis Khan Martin Luther Joan of Arc Mehmet II Henry of Protugal Leonardo DaVinci
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TOVREA AP World History 600 BCE-600 CE - Daily Schedule 15B 8000 BCE- 600 BCE Unit Assessment HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 16A In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 17B In class: Lecture Americas; test analysis; map activity HW: Vocab/Study 2.1 18A In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire? HW: Read/Study Dates 19B In class: Quiz 2.1; Rome video Persia Webquest activity; Lecture What is an empire
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Greenblatt‚ Miriam. Augustus and Imperial Rome . New York : Benchmark Books ‚ 2000. 9. Hadas‚ Moses. Imperial Rome . New York : Time Incoporated ‚ n.d. 10. Martin‚ Randal. Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion. Canada : Broadview Press‚ 2001. 11. Moore‚ Frank Gardener
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Review for Test 1 – Chapters 1 through 4 Chapter 1 – Beginnings of Civilization 1. What is the name of the place where the oldest paintings known to mankind are found? The neanderthal’s 2. What happened in the Neolithic period that allowed for communities and villages to develop?Agriculture 3. What two things (according to the book) happen together when civilization begins to develop?Hunting and gathering. 4. What is the name of the area where Sumerians settled? Fertile crescent
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How to Read a Roman Portrait SHELDON NODELMAN from E. D’Ambra‚ ed.‚ Roman Art in Context. NY: Prentice Hall. 1993 pp. 10‐20 Like all works of art. the portrait is a system of signs; it is often an ideogram of “public’ meanings condensed into the image of a human face. Roman portrait sculpture from the Republic through the late Empire-the second century BCE. to the sixth CE -constitutes what is surely the most remarkable body of portrait art ever created. Its shifting montage of abstractions from
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