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Age of Tyrants Flashcards

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Asking for metals:

Sparta : _____ :: Athens : _____

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Iron; Silver

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Tyrant

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Ruler that relies on physical force

“usurper with supreme power”

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Spartan serfs

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Helots

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5 Spartan villages

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Pitane, Messoa, Limnae, Konoura, and Dyme

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Periocei

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People who lived around Sparta

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Terpander

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Father of Lyric Poetry

Banished from Lesbos

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Alcman

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Chief Poet of Sparta

From Lydia

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Tyrtaeus

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Martial song inspired Spartan countrymen to win the 2nd Messenian War

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1st Messenian War

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725-705
King Theopompus captures Messenia
First and most decisive step for growth of Sparta

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2nd Messenian War

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640-631
Aristomenes leads a helot revolt
Tyrtaeus martial songs cause Spartans to win

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What ended Sparta’s Golden Age?

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2nd Messenian War

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Why was Sparta so militarily prepared?

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Sparta depended on the agricultural work of the helots

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What Greek city-state did not have a strong, fortified acropolis?

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Sparta

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Lycurgus

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c. 885
Lawgiver that established a military society in Sparta
Forbade citizens to engage in trade or industry
Forbade importation of silver and gold
Only tool a citizen could own was an axe

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Duarchy

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Two kings

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What were the royal houses of Sparta called?

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Agids and Eurypontids

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Gerousia

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30 members(including the Kings)
60 age minimum
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Apella

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All male citizens over 30
Reviewed the laws of the Gerousia
Elected members of Gerousia, ephors, and other magistrates

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Ephors

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5 members
7th century-gained power
6th-equal to kings
After Persian War-power almost supreme

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Krypteia

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Secret police

Spied on helots

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Harmost

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Military governor appointed to control allied cities oversea

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Mt Taygetus

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Defective Spartan children get thrown off

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Return with your shield or on it

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Win or die

Spartan women to sons

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Athens’ name

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Poseidon gave Athens a horse, Athena gave Athens an olive tree
They liked the olive tree better, so they were named after Athena

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Mt Laurium

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Silver found here used for navy

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Last king of Athens

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King Codrus

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Archon’s rule(how many years)

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Elected for life, then limited to 10 years, then reduced to 1 year

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First Archon

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Acastas of the Medontid family

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Archon Epanymos

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Head of religion

Gave name to the year

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Archon Basileus

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Head of state religion

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Archon Polemarchos

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Commander of the army

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Archon Thesmothetal

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6 are elected

Lawmakers

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Who met on the Hills of Mars?

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Boule(council made up of archons who have completed office)

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Ecclesia

34
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462

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Something happens to Areopagus; it loses power because of this

35
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632

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Ceylon plot

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Who assisted Cylon in his attempt to establish himself as the tyrant of Athens?

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Theagenes, tyrant of Megara

37
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Who was the archon at the time during Cylon’s plot?

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Megacles of the Alcaemonid family

38
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Why were the Alcaemonids banished from Athens?

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Megacles promised Cylon’s followers safety if they left Athena’s temple, but he had them killed anyway

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Thesmothetes

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Special lawmaker

40
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c. 620

41
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What were the Draconian laws?

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Penalty for all crimes is death

42
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Where was the temple of Poseidon?

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Cape Sunium

43
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Where was Apollo’s oracle located?

44
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Amphictionic League

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Protected the Delphic Oracle

45
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What does “Amphictionic” mean?

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Dweller’s Around

46
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590

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1st Sacred War

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Where was Zeus’ oracle located?

48
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What city is known as “the land of the whispering oaks”?

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Sacred Band

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Theban military unit composed of 150 pairs of “Best Friends”

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Who is the mythical king of Thebes?

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Hesiod

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Boeotian poet
Wrote Theogony(about universe and origin of the gods)
Wrote Works and Days(describes the daily tasks of a farmer)

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Pindar

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Theban poet loved by all of Greece

When Alexander destroyed Thebes, he left Pindar’s house alone

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What works were the earliest records of Greek religion?

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Iliad, Odyssey, poems of Hesoid

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First tyrant

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Pheidon(or Gyges)

55
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Most arrogant act

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Pheidon took the Olympic Games from Elis and gave it to Pisa

56
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630

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Theagenes led a peasant revolt and became tyrant of Megara

57
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Orthagorus

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Led peasant revolt at Sicyon and became tyrant

58
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664

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First recorded naval battle

Corcyra vs Corinth

59
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What is Corinth well known for?

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Its decadence, pottery, and prostitutes

60
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Dioclos

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Wooden tramway

Located at Corinth

61
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655

62
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What tyrant was hidden in a jar as a baby?

63
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Who is Cypselus’ mother?

64
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What clan sent soldiers to kill Cypselus when he was a child?

65
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Who is the son of Cypselus that became tyrant of Corinth after the death of Cypselus?

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God of Medicine

67
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Governing family of Mytilene that knocked people with clubs

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Penthilids

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Tyrant of Mytilene that was made Aesymnetes

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Aesymnetes means-

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Special ten year ruler

70
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What two famous Lesbian poets did Pittacus exile?

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Sappho & Alcaeus

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Sappho

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Wrote love poems
Started Aeolic school of poetry with Alcaeus
Called “The Poetess”

72
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Alcaeus

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Wrote political and drinking songs

Started Aeolic school of poetry with Sappho

73
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Tyrant of Miletus

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Thrasybulus

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Thales

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c. 590
Believed everything was composed of water
Predicted the eclipse of the sun

75
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What was Lydia known for?

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Extreme wealth

76
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687-652

77
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Ekecheiria

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Truce during the games

78
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Olympic Games

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776
In honor of Zeus
Founded by Pelopsor Heracles
Revived by Lycurgus and Iphitus

79
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Pythian Games

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582
In honor of Apollo
Held every 2 years in Delphi
Founded by Periander

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Isthmean Games

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582
In honor of Poseidon
Held at Corinth, Theseus founded the games
Held every two years, winner received Palm branch and a crown of celery

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Nemean Games

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576
In honor of Zeus
Held every two years in Nemea

82
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Psammitichus

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Egyptian King that opened Egypt to settlers

83
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700

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