Chapter 10 Flashcards
Mycenaeans
Beginning about 2200 B.C.E migratory Indo-Europeans people filtered over the Balkans and into the Greek peninsula. By 1600 BCE they had begun to trade with Minoan merchants and visit Crete, where they learned about writing and large scale construction.
Homer
- A man who perhaps never existed
- A profound influential figure
- according to tradition, Homer composed the two great epic poems of Ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey
King Minos
- Legendary King of Ancient Crete
Minoans Polls
In the absence of centralized state or empire, local institutions Took the lead in restoring political power in Greece.The most important institution with the city-state or polis. The term polis originally referred to a citadel or fortified site that offered refuge for local communities during times of war or other emergencies.The sites attracted increasing populations.
Pericles
The high tide of Athenian power and prosperity came under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. Though he was of aristocratic birth , Pericles was the most popular Athenian leader from 461 BCE until his death in 429 BCE. He wielded enormous R personal influence in a government with hundreds of officeholders from the common classes and he supported building programs of construction programs that provided employment for thousands of workers and laborers
Antigonus
One of Alexander the great’s generals who inherited the Hellenistic empires that stretch from Macedonia to Greece
Seleucus
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Socrates
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Plato
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Spartan and Persian wars
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Peloponnesian War
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Hellenistic empires
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Stoics
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The Iliad and Odyssey
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Trojan war
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Minoan Linear A and B
Minoan A- an early form of Greek
Minoan B- a syllabic script
Helot
Servants of the Spartan state. Though not chattel slaves they were not free. Peloponnesus , reduce neighboring people’s.
Alexander the great
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Ptolemy
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Olympic Games
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Aristotle, Darius, Xerxes
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Tyrant
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Solon
An Athenian aristocrat who served as a mediator between classes, and he devised a solution to class conflict. That solution was a compromise between the classes. He allowed aristocrats to keep their lands rather than confiscate then and redistribute them to landless individuals, as many of the less privileged preferred but he cancelled debts, forbade debts slavery and liberated those already enslaved for debt. He later the. Also provides representation for the common classes in the Athenian government by opening the councils of the polis to anyone wealthy enough to devote time to public affairs, regardless of his lineage.
