Ancient Greece Flashcards
Power
The ability to do something or change somethings
Type of landform is Greece
Penninsula
Bodies of water near Greece?
Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean, Ionian, and (Black Sea).
Region
Southeast Europe
True or False: Many Mountains
True
Monarchy
One King single ruler.
Aristocracy
Ruled by a group of noble landowning man.
Oligarchy
Ruled by citizens based on wealth.
Direct Democracy
Ruled by the people (Majority rules).
Common City States
Athens, Sparta, Olympus, and Thebes.
Acropolis
Where citizens gathered to discuss city’s gov’t
Draco
All Athenians equal
Solon
Created 4 social classes
Cleisthenes
Council of of 500
Athenian boys education
Reading, writing, grammar, poetry, history, math, music, logic, public, speaking, military school.
Athenian girls education
Educated by their mothers; child bearing, weaving, cooking.
Sparta was a
Military society
Gov’t branches of Sparta
- Assembly of Voters
- Council of elders
- Elected officials
- Two kings
Daily life Sparta:
No individuality, no art, no expression.
Values of Sparta
Strength and discipline above freedom and learning
Remained in Spartan army until what age?
60
Spartan Women war knowledge
Military training, wrestling, and sports.
Bronze Age
Mycenaes expanded through the Eastern Mediterranean with the Minoans
-Trojan war with troy
-Trojan horse
-Many Greek myths
-Homer (poet)
Greek Gods/Myths
Stories about Gods
-Gods were human like/had human qualities but lived forever
