Ancient Greece Notes Flashcards
Where was the capital of Crete
Knossos
Who and when was the first Greek culture
The Minoans and 2000 BC
How did geography affect the Minoans
The islands and mountains made for much seafaring trade and since there was little arable land there was no feudalism
What are the three things that could be defined as the polis
One the physical area
Two the people within the polis
Three the ideals within the polis
Why were bowls important for the Minoan civilization
Bulls were a sign of wealth because doable you had to have a lot of flatland which was not very common
Because the Minoan civilization to collapse
Natural disaster
Which group and time. Was the second Greek culture
The Mycenaeans around 1600 BC
Describe the Mycenaean civilization
The Indo-Europeansmigrated to Greece and they had a written language which cannot be read today. Their walled cities meant that they were constantly fighting. Warrior kings were the rulers. The best fighter and leader became king. The king was there for merit not birth
Why did the Mycenaean civilization decline.
in fighting and invaders
What civilization was known as the dark ages in Greece
The Dorian civilization
Though there was no written, what epic were authored in this time.
The Iliad , the Odyssey. They were written by Homer who was not real and a blind poet
Was troy a real place?
We think so we’re pretty sure we found it
What is Arête
The idea of state over self or polis over self
Who and why is the protagonist in the Iliad
Hector because he has arête
What is Polybius a cycle
Monarchy to tyranny to aristocracy to oligarchy to democracy to mobocracy to monarchy
