Background Of Sparta Flashcards

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3000-1600BC

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Archaic Greece

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1600-1200BC

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Mycenaean Greece

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3
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1200-800BC

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Dark Ages

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4
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800-600BC

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Greek Renaissance

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5
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600-323BC

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Classical/Hellenic Greece

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6
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323-31BC

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Hellenistic Greece

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7
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First Greek society

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Mineans, island of Crete, named after king of Crete, Minos, population 250,000, largest city state, most powerful.

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How was Greece settled?

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Valleys, mountains, water, encouraged to settle independent communities, city states.

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9
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When were the city states united?

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Trojan War.

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10
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1300BC

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Mycenae attacked my Turkey (Asia Minor), Dorian invasion.

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Greece Dark Ages

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Culture declined, structures and public buildings halted, some skills survived, language preserved.

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Greek Renaissance

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Optimism and adventure flourished, wrote poems, Olympic Games (776BC).

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Classical Greece

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Herodotus and Thucydides, democracy, Persian War and Peloponnesian War, importance of individualism.

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Athenian society

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Never united Greece, culture never changed, trade brought ideas, polis was wealthy.

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Greek Polis

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Self governing autonomous society.

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16
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Define acropolis

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Stronghold of community life.

17
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Structure of Spartan population

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Citizens (adult males) = 43,000
Women and children = 129,000
Metils (foreigners) = 28,000
Slaves (helots) = 115,000

18
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Citizenship restrictions

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Adult males
Athens = 18 year old men
Sparta = 30 year old men

19
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Forms of government

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Monarchy = kings
Aristocracy = nobles
Timocracy = political power to wealth