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Socrates
question
Aristotle
scientist
plato
academic
government
democracy
Iliad and odyssey
homer
Knossos
europe’s oldest city
Pericles
democratic leader, partheneon
Phillip II
king of Macedonia
Alexander the Great
son of Phillip II, conquered persian empire, spread greek culture, alexandria
polis
city state
solon
set the ground for democracy
sparta known for
military, womens rights
cleisthenes
introduced democracy in Athens
athens known for
democracy, navy
peloponnesian war
between sparta and athens
olympics
games held in honor of zeus, men only
herean games
women only
minoans
crete, linear A, foreigner
myceneans
took over Crete, attacked troy, linear B
greece were big on
democracy, tragedy (theater), and philosophy
alexandria
named after alexander the great
trojan war
Mycenean vs troy, bronze age, myth?
agora
the meeting place
virgil
roman poet, wrote aeneid (unofficial sequel to the Iliad and odyssey)
religion/theology
polytheistic, zeus main god, 12 big gods
patriarchal society (women)
sappho (greek poet), women as godesses, woves, prostitues
greek language
Phoenician language, vowels, complex
hellenistic greece
alexander the great death to dominance of roman empire
who did alexander the great give his cities to?
his top generals
golden age
art, teachers, architecture, sculpture, pottery, philosophy
myron
Discobolus
pidius
zeus statue
theater
tragedy, comedy
greek colonization
sicily, france, anatolia, ukraine
persian war
against roman empire, athens navy
delian league
payments to athens for protection, led by athens
athens vs sparta war
peloponnesian
hellas
name for greece
dark ages
settlemens abandoned (but athens), population drops, linear B forgotten
athens hierarchy
citizens, metics, slaves
xenophilic
acceptance of foreigners
capital of greece
athens
draconian laws
excessive laws
aristocracy
government where power is held by land owners and the wealthy
oligarchy
government run by small group of people
sparta hiearchy
equals, non-citizens, helots
xenophobic
scared of foreigners
barbarian
foreigners
how many great wonders of the world did greece contribute?
5 out of 7
geography
mountains, sea, peninsula, aegan, black, ionian sea
sophcoles
tragedy writer, 100 plays (7 survived)