Ancient Greece Flashcards
Scene 1: Minion Crete. Where and when did this take place?
220-1400 B.C, the isaland of Crete
What was the first important European civilization after the flood?
Minion Crete
What city built a palace based society?
Minion Crete
What is a palace based society?
The general population clustered and built there houses around the palaces.
Scene 2: Mycenaean civilization. Where and when did this take place.
1800-1000 B.C.
located on the Balkan and Peloponnesian peninsula
What city had an economy based on raids and trades and what does mean in return?
Mycenaean civilization and in return this means a lot of interaction with Canaan Cyprus, Crete
Scece 3: Greece’s dark age.
When was Greece’s dark age?
1200-800B.C
what 3 things were brought about by Greece’s dark age
- The loss of the ability to write
- depopulation spiral
- the loss of technology
what city started the spread of Greek culture all over the Mediterranean?
The Mycenaean civilization
what brought about Greece’s recovery from the dark age?
trade, innovation, and cultural interaction with other cities.
- Iron metallurgy
2.phoencian alphabet - creation of surplus
scene 4: Archaic age
When was this and what was created during this time?
750-500 B.C.
The creation of the Greek Polus
What is a Polis?
a city state that is fiercely independent form other states.
Raw materials/wealth varied greatly form _______?
city state to city state
Why was Greece’s city state unique?
because poor men had nearly the same rights as rich men.
slaves comprised 1/3 of the population during which age?
The archaic age
each city state reverenced a particular deity who was the city’s protector. For example…
Athens and Athena
What city was the birth place of democracy and poetry ?
Athens
Scene 5: Golden age.
when and what was another name for this age.
450 B.C.
Also known as the classical age
What was the golden age (classical age) know for?
the flourish of philosophy, education
who were the big three?
in this order
- Sorates
- plato
- Aristotle
what ended the golden age?
the Peloponnesian war
where did the war take place and who was involved?
It was in Sparta against Sparta and Athens
this war went on for years and years and years
who conquers the known world?
Alexander the great
what was Hellenization Asia?
taking the Greek culture and spreading it with every nation Alexander the Great conquered and mixing it with there own cutlers
scene 6: the Hellenistic age.
When did this take place and what took place?
300-30 B.C
Alexander the great died at 33 and his empire was broken up and each of his generals had control of a piece
what was the biggest contribution the Greeks had?
the spread of Greek thinking is the most important thing we ger from ancient Greece.
