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
What is Polybius a cycle based on
The gain and loss of arête
what causes the changes and Polybius a cycle
Distraction
What causes monarchy to change the tyranny
The Kings son become spoiled
What causes aristocracy to change to oligarchy
Then the next generation loses arête
How does a democracy change to mobocracy
The people stop thinking for themselves
Who is the leader during Athens Golden age
Pericles
Where does Pericles get the money for his public projects
He takes it without asking from the Delian league
Who built the ParthenoN
Pericles
What were the goals of the first theaters
They were expressions of civic pride and a religious tribute
Who are the two forces in the Peloponnesian war
Sparta and Athens
And the Peloponnesian war, who is stronger where
Athens a stronger at sea and Sparta is stronger on land. So Pericles strategy is to avoid land battles
Who wins the Peloponnesian war
Sparta wins after us and surrenders after the Spartan allies burn a bunch of ships and A plague kills a third of the Athenians
What was the philosophers goal and what to assumptions did they all draw
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
What kept the Greeks from surrendering to the Persians like everyone else
Air today and that their geography caused isolation and A strong sense of independence
Who won the battle of marathon
The Greeks
What helped the Athenians get rich enough to build a navy of 300 triremes
They discovered a vein of silver at Themistocles
What was up with Xerxes
He wanted revenge for his father by conquering Greece
Who won the Persian war and what did that cause
The Greeks one and it caused the delian league and the Athenian Empire
What did the Delian league do
Members paid text to the league and the tax money built up a navy which Athens uses to protect them. Makes it a mobocracy
What does Sparta do in response to the Delian league
They form the Peloponnesian league
Who was Thucydides
And Athenian general exiled because of the loss of the war
I only did these cards up until
Right before we annotated Plato
