classical connections: greek and roman historians 500 bc-400 ad
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Classical Connections: Greek and Roman Historians 500 BC-400 AD. Growth of cultural exchange 1200 BC-500 AD. This PowerPoint is the overarching inquiry question and background information presented during the first lesson. Big History. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Classical Connections:Greek and Roman Historians
500 BC-400 AD
Growth of cultural exchange 1200 BC-500 AD
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This PowerPoint is the overarching inquiry question and background information presented during the first lesson
Big History
• The exchange of ideas across cultural and language groups became a dominant feature of world history
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Our Inquiry Question
• Why did historians write history in the Classical World?
• Why did their audience love history?
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Archaic Greece
• Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the first Classical literature shared between Greeks and Romans
• 1000 BC
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Rome Founded
• Romulus and Remus found Rome on the banks of the Tiber
• History or myth?
• 753 BC
Persian Wars
• Persian Empire attacks Greece and fails
• 490-479 BC
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Herodotus
• Historian of the Persian Wars
historia Meaning inquiries
• Lived c 484-425 BC
The Peloponnesian War
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• Greece’s ‘World War’
• 431 BC – 404 BC
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Thucydides• A war
‘worth noting’
• Wrote for posterity
• A general & eyewitness at the Pelponnesian War
• 460-395 BC
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Hannibal crosses the Alps
• Rome and Carthage fight for Mediterranean supremacy
• 218 BC
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Rome wins Mediterranean
• Rome destroys Carthage and conquers the Greeks
• 202-146 BC
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Polybius
• Records the rise of Rome and the conquest of the Mediterranean
• Wrote to educate and train leaders
• Lived 203-120 BC
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Catiline’s Conspiracy
• The Roman republic suffers a century of crisis and civil war
• Catiline’s conspiracy 64-63 BC
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Julius Caesar Assassinated
• General, politician, orator, historian and dictator
• Murdered 44 BC
C. Sallustius Crispus
• Sallust• Roman senator
and historian• Ally of Caesar• Wrote in
retirement• History of
Catiline• Lived 86-34 BC
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Augustus Emperor
• Octavian ends 100 years of Civil War and becomes Imperator (great General) and Princeps (first man)
• 27 BC
Titus Livius (Livy)
• Historian of the Roman Republic from the foundation to the present time
• Wrote to record the greatness of Rome
• Lived 59 BC-17 AD
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Tiberius’ Terror
• Judicial murder of dozens of senators and leading Roman families
• 25-37 AD
Vesuvius Erupts• Pompeii and
Herculaneum buried under volcanic ash and pumice
• 79 AD
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Tacitus
• Consul, Senator and historian of the Roman Empire
• Wrote to record merit and expose evil
• Lived 56-117 AD
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Constantinople founded
• Constantine founds ‘Second Rome’ and never visits Rome
• Establishes Christianity
• 330 AD
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Julian the Apostate
• Julian renounces Christianity in favour of the traditional Gods
• 360-363 AD
Ammianus
• Eye-witness and historian of the Later Roman Empire
• 325/330–after 391
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The Sack of Rome
• Alaric, King of the Visigoths conquers the city of Rome and ends its poer in the western Empire
• 410 AD
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WORLD HISTORY FOR US ALL SLIDE TEMPLATECONTENT WHOLLY WRITTEN BY MARK STEVENS
Acknowledgement
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