West Civ Project/Weinberg: More Exam Notes

Mant is the feather that they weighed against the heart
If the feather was the same weight as the heart than you could move on into the afterlife
Herodotus wrote about the Persian wars between the Greeks and the Persians
Thucydides writes about the Pelopanisian wars
Xenophon individual people(428-354)
Aristotle encyclopedia method of explaining history(384-323)
Plutarch known for his biographies (46-120)
Pausanias wrote the first travel guide (160)
The Bosarisk is known as the Istanbal strait
Thessalonika was known as Thrace then Macedonia
Adica is where Athens is
They get stopped at Thermopaly
Piraeus is the port in Athens
The Persians burned the Acropolis down
The Athenians rebuilt the Acropolis using funding that they got through the league of Athens
The wall near the Acropolis is constructed by remains of buildings after the sack
The green part is the grove of Dyanisis
Next to that is the theater of Dyanisis
The white thing on the other side is a Roman theater
146 bc after the sack of quarinth
The entrance to it is around the building you cant go strait through
Nike in Greek means victory
The temple of Nike is to the left of it
The Parthenon is the most important duric architecture
Duric is the oldest form of architecture
The roof was blown off of it during the war with the Turkish
This was a temple to the Virgin Athena
Athena was the protector goddess of Athens
The temple was built with funds that came through the Athenian league

Possible Essay Question: How do you think things would have been different if the Persians would have won?

Thesis, Outline form (3 body paragraphs with primary sources), explanations of why these relate to the question, and a conclusion.

If the Persians won the Persian wars than all the life that we know would be different.

West Civ Project/Weinberg