Transcript Civilizations

Organization of Man
1. FAMILY units
2. Families band together to form TRIBES
3. Tribes cease being NOMATIC
4. CIVILIZATIONS begin to form
Characteristics of a Civilization
1. Written Language
2. Organized Government
3. Complex Religion
4. Development of Trade/Economy
5. Development of Specialized Skills and
Occupations.
Two Major Early European
Civilizations
• Greece
6000 BCE-30 BCE
• Rome
»450 BC – 550 AD
– Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire)
550 ACE-1500ACE
city-states
Acropolis
Nike and
Athena
Nike - Victory
Athena
Wisdom
GOLDEN AGE
260 BCE-432 BCE
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Arts Flourish
“Relative” Peace
Surplus Food
Science
Thinking-Philosophy
500
BC
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BC
300
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Architecture
and Drama
Masks of
Comedy
and
Tragedy
Recorded History and Poetry
The Iliad
Recorded history and literature
Leader in the Golden Age
Elements present which can account
for the Downfall of Civilizations
1. Wars—Civil and Attacks from the
outside—Peloponnesian Wars-Sparta vs. Athens. Sparta wins 1, Athens
wins 2
2. Diseases—Athenian Plague
3. Greed
4. Corruption
5. Moral Decay—Socrates, teacher, forced to
poison himself. Charged with corrupting the youth of
Athens
Macedonian that spread Greek culture
Beginnings of Rome700-800 BCE-Rome was shepherds
on hills
Characteristics of a Civilization
1. Written Language
2. Organized Government
3. Complex Religion
4. Development of Trade/Economy
5. Development of Specialized Skills and
Occupations.
Aqueduct—Roman infrastructure-engineering/science
Created the arch with keystone that is used today
COLOSSEUM-
Circus Maximus
Notice the columns and arches.
Roman Roads
Still around today-Appian way
Gladiators and Chariot Races
Monotheism
• Judaism
Mt.
Sinai
• 2000 BCE on Mt.
Sinai the tallest
mountain on the Sinai
Peninsula 2, 285m.
• Covenant between
God and Israelites
through Abraham
Monotheism
• Christianity
• 1 – 36 ACE in
Bethlehem. Part of
the Roman Empire.
• Birth of Jesus who is
the Messiah which
translates as
“anticipated King”
Monotheism
• Islam
• 570-615 ACE Mecca
and Medina, Saudi
Arabia
• Ascended to heaven
in Jerusalem
• Muhammad is the
founder and last
prophet of God.
Pax
Romana
27 BCE180 ACE
300
BCE
200
BCE
100
BCE
100
ACE
200
ACE
Golden Age of Rome—
Peace of Rome
Size at the height of the Roman Empire
Elements present which can account
for the Downfall of Civilizations
1. Wars—Civil and Attacks from the outside—
Barbarian tribes-Vandals, Goths, Visagoths
2. Diseases—
3. Greed—heavy taxes to support the
“Party”
4. Corruption—every one wanted to be in
Rome to “Party”
5. Moral Decay-weak selfish rulers, Rome
began as a democracy, but ended as a
dictatorship.
Split of the Roman Empire
Green-Beginnings of the
Holy Roman Empire-It’s
different from the Roman
Empire
Pink-Byzantine Empire
West---Middle Ages
500-1300
East---Byzantine Empire500-1200
• Chaos and anarchydisorganization and lack
of stable government.
• Feudalism-established to
give protection to
individuals in exchange
for loyalty
• Feudalism gave way to
Monarchy
• Roman Catholic Church,
Pope, was a political
power as well as spiritual
leader
• Problems with Persian
Empire and then the
Ottoman Turks
• Learning-art, sciencecontinued
• Eastern Orthodox
Christians began when
Christianity split shortly
after the Roman Empire
Split
• After 700 years they fell.
AGE OF EXPLORATION BEGINS
IN THE 1300’S
RENAISSANCE BEGINS
• RENAISSANCE—
REBIRTH
• REBIRTH OF WHAT?
• THINKING
• EXPERIMENTATION
• MOVEMENT IN
STATUS
• HUMANISM
• SCIENCE
End of:
1. POWER OF THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH
2. IGNORANCE
3. STATIC SOCIETY
4. CLOTHES ON
STATUES =)
Quote To Think About and Apply
“ABSOLUTE
POWER
CORRUPTS
ABSOLUTELY”