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Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Classical Greece

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The period of Greek history from 500 BC to 338 BC

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The Dark Age

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The period of Greek history from 1100 BC to 750 BC, few records survive

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Oligarchy

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Rule by a few people

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Democracy

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Rule by many people; government by the people

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Athens

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A democratic city state in the Attic peninsula

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Sparta

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A militaristic city state in the Southern Peloponnesian peninsula

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Militaristic

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Pursuing an aggressive military policy

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Hellenism

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  1. The ideals and values of Greek civilization

2. A word for the period between Alexander the Great’s death and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC

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Polis

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A city state (a city and its surrounding areas)

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How did the geography of Greece play a role in the civilization’s development?

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Trade, division, war

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Majority of Greece is located in a

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Peninsula

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Over —– islands in the —— and —— Seas

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1400
Aegean
Ionian

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Soil is ——- for farming (20% is arable)

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Bad

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————- People

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Seafaring

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Poor in ————– so they need to —– with other people to get what they need

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Natural resources

Trade

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Temperature

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Moderate

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Earliest Greek civilization

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Minoans

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In order to farm the area, they used ———–

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Irrigation channels

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The Minoans grew ——–,——–, and ——— in different regions

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Wheat
Olives
Grapes

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The Minoans lived on the island of —–, ca. (Years) =

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Crete

2700–1450 BC

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——-(their writing): has it been deciphered?

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Linear A

No

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Th Minoans traded —-

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Widely

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The Mycenaean civilization dominated Greece from ———

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1600–1200 BC

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Mycenaeans: —– controlled —– towns

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Rulers

Fortified

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Mycenaeans were ——- because they ———–

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Warriors

Raided for treasure

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Common Mycenaean people:————

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Farmer, weavers, goat herders, stone masons

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Like the Minoans, Mycenaeans had ———-

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Widespread trade

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——– was an important part of civic life

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Religion

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Was there a separation between church and state?

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No

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Every city had a —- and —-

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God and cult

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The ——— was the most important part of the city

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Temple

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Greeks worshipped ————-, but there were —- main Olympians

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Numerous gods

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How did you ask for a god’s help?

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Rituals
Rites
Ceremonies

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Who was the father of Greek poetry?

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Hesiod

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Who wrote the Theogony and the Works and Days? When?

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Hesiod

750 BC

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In Ancient Greece, people paired —— and —–. They talked about them as two equally important Greek ——–

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Hesiod
Homer
Authors

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Hesiod is —— and ——–

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Religion

Society

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The Titanomachy is the story of

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The gods’ war with the titans

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Hesiod’s accounts of the Titanomachy in the ———- is one of the main ——- ones

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Theogony

Extant

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Extant

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There are existing copies

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Achievements

  • The rational ——-, ——–, and a ——— that valued ——,—–, and ——-
  • ——— architecture
  • ——– and ———- –> a standard if beauty that still influences us today
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Worldview
Philosophy
Culture
Discussion
Investigation
Curiosity
Classical
Art
Aesthetics
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What we learn about Greece from this reading from the Meno:
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1 Reason’s importance
2 Socratic method
3 presence of slavery
4 impact of geography/climate

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SPA

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Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

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The Socratic turn

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A turn from thinking about nature and the world to thinking about humanity, goodness, virtue, and what makes the “good life”

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Socrates

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Father of modern philosophy

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Because he asks so many questions, Socrates is accused of

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Disrespecting the gods

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Socrates is offered to either leave Athens or die… What does he chose?

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Plato

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Socrates’ most famous disciple

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What does Plato teach?

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Idealism

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The belief that the true reality is in unchanging and eternal forms

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Where are the forms?

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In a higher realm

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According to Plato, physical reality is ———– and —— times removed, from the ——

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Less important
Three
Ideas

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Periodization

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The attempt to divide history into periods

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Aristotle

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Plato’s most famous student

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Aristotle is more ——– than Plato

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Empirical

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Bases his ideas on observations of a lot of individual things

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How do you learn about a lot of individual things?

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You observe EVERYTHING

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Aristotle’s approach of observing everything

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Peripatetic

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What did Aristotle write about?

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EVERYTHING

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The Philosopher

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What is the word used for Socrates’ back and forth critiques?

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What’s the name of the sect Plato encountered in Sicily?

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Pythagoreans

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Though our real chairs are —– and —— the —– or ——- of a chair is —– and —–

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Flawed 
Temporary
Idea
Form
Eternal
Unchanging
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Plato’s academy thrived for centuries as a center for ——- and ——- two subjects dependent on ——-

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Mathematics
Ethics
Absolutes

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Unlike Plato, Aristotle believed that being wasn’t —– but rather in a constant state of ——- so the only way to know is was by ——– beings in nature

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Static
Change
Observing

65
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All men by nature desire to —-

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What science “deals with the first causes and principles of things?”

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Metaphysics- how things come to be

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What field that Aristotle invented studies how causes connect to facts?

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Fate

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Your destiny; what’s inevitably going to happen to you

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Tragedy

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A type of drama that focuses on a sad or depressed events

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or self confidence

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Tragic irony

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The tragedy/sadness created when you know what’s going to happen but the characters don’t

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Tragic flaw (hamartia)

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A personality trait that eventually makes something bad happen to someone

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Peripeteia

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A sudden reversal in fortune or change in a situation; a turning point

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Persian Wars: —— vs ——

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Greek city states

Persian Empire

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Persia conquered ——— in —– BC and they revolted with aid from the —— navy and army

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Ionia
520
Athenian

76
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Darius of Persia defeated the —— and went after —— next

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Ionians

Athens

77
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Battle at Marathon

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6400 dead Persians

192 dead Athenians—- won because of the phalanx

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Athens was left ——–; Pheidippides ran back to tell them not to give up; met Persians in Athens and the Persians sailed away

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Undefeated

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Persia returned in —– BC and the Greeks were ——-

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480

Divided

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Some city state did not fight with ——— and some agreed to ———–; others fought with the ——–

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Athens
Join them
Persians

81
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Battle of Thermopylae

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Xerxes (Darius’ son) marched through -Greece unmatched met 7000 Greeks here

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Persians ——– the Greeks and they battles for —- days; a traitor told the Persians about a —— around the cliffs (BOT)

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Underestimated
3
Secret path

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——- held the path while other Greeks retreated; all —— Spartans died (BOT)

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Spartans

300

84
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——- abandoned their city and fought the —— at sea

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Athens

Persians

85
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Battle of Salamis

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1 destroyed 1/3 of the Persian fleet

2 Spartans destroyed the remainder of the army at Plataea

86
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Consequences of Salamis

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  • Delian League: alliance of 140 city states headed by Athens
  • super navy for Athens
  • ended the threat of the Persians invading again

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