History 101.019/022
Fall 2003
last update:12/09/03
Names, Places
and Important Terms to Remember
This page contains series of listings of names, places, and terms that were mentioned in class as part of discussions or lectures, and which are deemed important enough for students to remember and to consider as they review for exams and quizzes. These terms are listed here chronologically according to the date in which they were defined in class or were written on the class blackboard.
Click on any past class date in this calendar to access the terms for that week.
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- historiography
- history
- Akkad
- Assyria
- Assyrian Empire
- Atum
- Babylonia
- Canaan
- Egypt
- Egyptian Empire
- Euphrates River
- Heliopolitan creation myth
- historiography
- history
- Memphis
- Mesopotamia
- Nile River
- Persian Empire
- rites of passage
- Sumer
- Tigris River
- Western Asia
- Afro-Asiatic languages
- aryan
- Aryan languages
- Atum
- Babylon
- Babylonia
- Cleopatra (019 only)
- creation myth
- Enuma Elish
- Geb
- Heliopolis
- Heliopolitan creation myth
- Indo-European languages
- Isis
- Kemet, "Black Land" (= Egypt)
- ma'at ("truth, order")
- Marduk
- Memphis
- Memphite Theology
- Mesopotamia
- myth
- Nut
- Osiris
- Ptolemy (019 only)
- Qingu
- Ra
- role of pharaoh (019 only)
- semite
- Semitic languages
- Shu
- Tiamat
sect. 019:
- Akkadian Empire
- Akkadians
- Amorites
- Arabs
- Aramaeans
- Assyria
- Babylonia
- Hittite Empire
- Inanna (= Ishtar/Astarte)
- Jericho
- Mesopotamia
- Nabataeans
- Nippur
- origins of agriculture
- Per-Ramesses
- Sargon of Akkad
- semites
- Semitic languages
- Sumer
- Sumerians
- Tanis
- Ur
- Uruk
sect. 022:
- Akkadian Empire
- Akkadians
- Amorites
- Arabs
- Aramaeans
- Assyria
- Babylonia
- Canaanites
- civilization
- cuneiform
- Mesopotamia
- Nabataeans
- Proto-literate period
- qippu
- Sargon of Akkad
- semites
- Semitic languages
- Sumer
- Sumerians
- Ur
- Uruk
- Uruk Period
sect. 019:
- Egyptian calendar
- Gregorian calendar
- Hapy (= Ptah)
- Nile inundation
- Orion (= Osiris)
- Sirius
sect. 022:
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- flood mythology
- Gilgamesh
- Inanna (Ishtar)
- Sumerian flood myth
- Utnapishtim
- ziggurat (Sum., "high place")
- Ziusudra
sect. 019:
- Akhenaten
- Akkadian Empire
- Amun-Ra
- Aten (sun disk)
- Elloh/Allah
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- evolution of monotheism
- flood mythology
- Gilgamesh
- Hebrews
- henotheism
- Inanna (Ishtar)
- Instructions of Amenemopet
- legend of Sargon
- monotheism
- mountains of Ararat
- Mt. Nisir
- Nephilim
- polytheism
- Psalm 82
- Psalm 101
- Sargon of Akkad
- "sons of God" (semi-divine beings)
- Sumerian flood myth
- tetragrammaton
- Urartu (Ararat)
- Utnapishtim
- YHWH (Jehova)
- ziggurat (Sum., "high place")
- Ziusudra
sect. 022:
- Akhenaten
- Amun-Ra
- Aten (sun disk)
- Bronze Age
- Copper Age
- Crete
- evolution of monotheism
- Greek progenitors
- Hebrews
- henotheism
- Hymn to the Aten
- Instructions of Amenemopet
- Iron Age
- labrynth
- legend of Theseus and Ariadne
- Linear A
- Minoan civilization
- Minos
- Minotaur
- monotheism
- myths of Greek origins
- Nefertiti
- Nephilim
- people of the Book
- Psalm 101
- Ra
- "sons of God" (semi-divine beings)
Midterm Examination (10/9)
- Akrotiri
- Herodotus ("Father of History")
- Labrynth (labrynthos, "House of Double Axe")
- Knossos
- Legend of Theseus and Ariadne
- Minoan civilization
- Minoan Palace Culture
- Mycenaeans
- Thera/Santorini
- Achaea/Achaeans
- Achilles
- Agamemnon
- Athena
- Athens
- Dorians
- Hector
- Hellas (Greece)
- Hittite Empire
- The Iliad
- Linear B
- Menelaus
- Mycenae
- Mycenaean civilization
- Paris (Alexandros Paris)
- Sea People
- thallasocracy
- Troy (Wilusha/Ilium)
- aristocracy
- Greek Dark Ages
- Magna Graecia
- Olympia
- Olympic games
- Olympic peace
- polis
- tyranny
Fall Break: No Class (10/21)
- Archaic period (cultural borrowing)
- aristocracy
- evolution of alphabet
- Greek Archaic period (orientalizing period)
- hoplite
- Laconia
- oligarchy
- Orientalizing Revolution
- phalanx
- polis
- Sparta
- tyranny
- Walter Burkert
- hoplites
- hoplon ("shield")
- phalanx
Sparta:
- Apella (Assembly of the Army)
- Council of 28
- ephors
- "Equals"-system
- helots
- hepatoscopy/augury (liver omens)
- Laconia
- laconic
- Lycurgus (the Lawgiver)
- Peloponnesus
- Sparta
Athens:
- archons
- Areopagus Council
- Areopagus ("hill of Ares")
- aristocracy
- Assembly of 5000 (ecclesiae)
- Assembly of 45,000 (ecclesiae)
- Athenian oarsmen
- Cleisthenes
- "Conciliator"
- Council of 500 (boulé)
- Council of 400 (boulé)
- deme
- democracy
- evolution of democracy
- Heliaea
- oligarchy
- ostracism
- Solon
- thalassocracy
- tyranny
- Athenian Empire
- Athens
- Battle of Mantinea
- Battle of Marathon
- Battle of Plataea
- Battle of Salamis
- Board of 30 Tyrants
- Delian League
- Ionia
- Melos
- Peloponnesian League
- Peloponnesian Wars
- Persian Empire
- Persian Wars
- Pheidippides
- Socrates
- Thebes (Greece)
Macedonia:
- Alexander III (the Great)
- Antigonus (Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia)
- Aristotle
- Battles of Issus, Granicus, Gaugamela
- Hellenistic era
- Macedonia
- Olympias (Queen of Macedon)
- Pella (city)
- Philip II (King of Macedon)
- Pindar (Theban poet)
- Ptolemy (Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt)
- Seleucis (Seleucid kingdom)
sections 019 and 022:
- ab urbe condita, ("from the founding of the city")
- ancestor worship
- cognomen (family name)
- dominate
- "Dominus et Deus"
- Etruscans
- fides, "trust"
- nomen (clan name)
- pater familias
- patria potestas
- patricians
- patron-client system
- phases of Roman history
- plebeans
- praenomen (given name)
- princeps
- principate
- Roman empire
- Roman monarchy
- Roman republic
- romanitas
- Rome
- Romulus and Remus
- Senate
section 022 only:
- Alexander the Great
- Antigonus
- Aristotle
- Bactria
- Battle of Chaeronea
- Battle of Mantinea
- Macedonia
- Pella
- Philip Arrhidaeus (brother of Alexander)
- Ptolemy
- Seleucis
- aedile
- aeques ("eagles", legionary standards)
- Battle of Actium
- "bread and circuses"
- Caesarion
- Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
- Claudius
- Cleopatra VII
- consul
- cursus honorem
- dictator
- emperor worship
- Gaius Julius Caesar
- genius (genii)
- gladiatorial games
- imperator
- imperium
- Julia (daughter of Augustus, wife of Tiberius)
- Julio-Claudians
- Livia (wife of Augustus)
- Marc Antony
- Messalina (wife of Claudius)
- Nero
- Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
- praetor
- princeps
- quaestor
- SPQR (Senatus Pobulusque Romanum)
- Tiberius
Thanksgiving (11/27): No Class
sections 019 and 022:
- ancestor worship
- Caesar August
- Caligula
- Christianity
- christos, the Christ, "anointed one"
- Claudius
- Dionysus cult
- eastern mystery cults
- emperor worship
- Mithra cult
- Osiris and Isis
- Vesta
- Yeshua ben Yussef
section 019:
- diaspora
- Hasmoneans
- Herod the Great
- Herodias
- Judaea
- Salome
- Simon bar Kochba
section 022:
- aeques ("eagles", legionary standards)
- Carthage
- Battle of Zama
- Hannibal
- Punic Wars
- Scipio Africanus
- SPQR (Senatus Pobulusque Romanum)
Last day of class (12/4)
- Anna Comnena
- Battle of Hattin
- Battle of Accre
- Count Emico of the Rhineland
- First Crusade
- Fourth Crusade (Crusade That Went Awry)
- Fulchers of Chatres
- Peter the Hermit
- Pope Urban II
- Saladin
- Soloman bar Samson
- Third Crusade (Crusade of Kings)
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