Ancient Greece Notes

Question 0

Where was the capital of Crete

Answer 0

Knossos

Question 1

Who and when was the first Greek culture

Answer 1

The Minoans and 2000 BC

Question 2

How did geography affect the Minoans

Answer 2

The islands and mountains made for much seafaring trade and since there was little arable land there was no feudalism

Question 3

What are the three things that could be defined as the polis

Answer 3

One the physical area
Two the people within the polis
Three the ideals within the polis

Question 4

Why were bowls important for the Minoan civilization

Answer 4

Bulls were a sign of wealth because doable you had to have a lot of flatland which was not very common

Question 5

Because the Minoan civilization to collapse

Answer 5

Natural disaster

Question 6

Which group and time. Was the second Greek culture

Answer 6

The Mycenaeans around 1600 BC

Question 7

Describe the Mycenaean civilization

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Why did the Mycenaean civilization decline.

Answer 8

in fighting and invaders

Question 9

What civilization was known as the dark ages in Greece

Answer 9

The Dorian civilization

Question 10

Though there was no written, what epic were authored in this time.

Answer 10

The Iliad , the Odyssey. They were written by Homer who was not real and a blind poet

Question 11

Was troy a real place?

Answer 11

We think so we’re pretty sure we found it

Question 12

What is Arête

Answer 12

The idea of state over self or polis over self

Question 13

Who and why is the protagonist in the Iliad

Answer 13

Hector because he has arête

Question 14

What is Polybius a cycle

Answer 14

Monarchy to tyranny to aristocracy to oligarchy to democracy to mobocracy to monarchy

Question 15

What is Polybius a cycle based on

Answer 15

The gain and loss of arête

Question 16

what causes the changes and Polybius a cycle

Answer 16

Distraction

Question 17

What causes monarchy to change the tyranny

Answer 17

The Kings son become spoiled

Question 18

What causes aristocracy to change to oligarchy

Answer 18

Then the next generation loses arête

Question 19

How does a democracy change to mobocracy

Answer 19

The people stop thinking for themselves

Question 20

Who is the leader during Athens Golden age

Answer 20

Pericles

Question 21

Where does Pericles get the money for his public projects

Answer 21

He takes it without asking from the Delian league

Question 22

Who built the ParthenoN

Answer 22

Pericles

Question 23

What were the goals of the first theaters

Answer 23

They were expressions of civic pride and a religious tribute

Question 24

Who are the two forces in the Peloponnesian war

Answer 24

Sparta and Athens

Question 25

And the Peloponnesian war, who is stronger where

Answer 25

Athens a stronger at sea and Sparta is stronger on land. So Pericles strategy is to avoid land battles

Question 26

Who wins the Peloponnesian war

Answer 26

Sparta wins after us and surrenders after the Spartan allies burn a bunch of ships and A plague kills a third of the Athenians

Question 27

What was the philosophers goal and what to assumptions did they all draw

Answer 27

There goes to seek truth no matter where it takes them. They do assumptions they drew were the universe is put together orderly and subject to unchanging law, and people can understand the loss to logic and reason

Question 28

What kept the Greeks from surrendering to the Persians like everyone else

Answer 28

Air today and that their geography caused isolation and A strong sense of independence

Question 29

Who won the battle of marathon

Answer 29

The Greeks

Question 30

What helped the Athenians get rich enough to build a navy of 300 triremes

Answer 30

They discovered a vein of silver at Themistocles

Question 31

What was up with Xerxes

Answer 31

He wanted revenge for his father by conquering Greece

Question 32

Who won the Persian war and what did that cause

Answer 32

The Greeks one and it caused the delian league and the Athenian Empire

Question 33

What did the Delian league do

Answer 33

Members paid text to the league and the tax money built up a navy which Athens uses to protect them. Makes it a mobocracy

Question 34

What does Sparta do in response to the Delian league

Answer 34

They form the Peloponnesian league

Question 35

Who was Thucydides

Answer 35

And Athenian general exiled because of the loss of the war

Question 36

I only did these cards up until

Answer 36

Right before we annotated Plato