Chapter 10 Vocab Flashcards
Knossos
A place where very nice palaces and structures were built
Homer/ Iliad and odyssey
An unknown person who wrote the two great greek epics
Minoans
A society that existed between 2000 and 1700 B.C.E. That fell due to many natural disasters
Myceneans
A society that traded with the Minoans
Linear A and b
Scripts written to record economic and social matters
Trojan war
A war that arose between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans
Polis/poleis
The equivalent of a Mesopotamian city state
Sparta
An area that was fertile and had a good economy in Peloponnesus
Helots
Servants of the spartan society
Peloponnesus
A region controlled by the Mycenaean empire
Athens
A city in which the government was established to relive political and social strain
Solon
An aristocrat who solved social class conflicts in Attica
Pericles
A leader who established many jobs for people and a large government
Greek colonies
Areas around the Mediterranean that Greeks were located in and ruled by Greece
Persian wars
Wars between Greece and Persia
Battle of salamis
A war between the straits of the mainland of Greece and Salamis
Delian league
A group of poleis formed to create protection from Persian attacks
Peloponnesian war
A war between the Greek Poleis
Thucydides
A reporter who stated that Athens had taken women and children prisoner and had killed most of the males
Phillip 2 of Macedon
A king who modified the army of Macedon
Alexander the Great
A ruler who took over Persia
Antigonid Empire
An empire that made deals with the Poleis in Greece
Ptolemaic Empire
The wealthiest empire of Egypt
Seleucid Empire
The empire where greek influence reached its greatest extent
Hellenistic Era
The age of Alexander and his successors
Alexandria (Egypt)
The most important harbor city in Egypt
Bactria
A city that was in constant communication with Greece
Olympic Games
Events that occurred every four years in which athletes from each city would compete
Sappho
A Greek woman poet
Thales
Ionian scientist who predicted an eclipse of the sun
Democritus
Greek theorist who believed that everything was made up of tiny particles called atoms
Pythagoras
An Ionian mathematician created a systematic approach to math
Hippocrates
Father of medicine an Athenian
Socrates
A philosopher who centered his ideas on human affairs
Plato
A philosopher who believed that parents actions affect their children
Aristotle
A philosopher who believed that you could rely on your senses to find evidence
Zeus
Head god
Dionysus
God of wine
Aeschylus
A tragedian who explored the limitation of human actions
Sophocles
A Greek tragedian . Who discovered the limits of human actions
Euripides
Dramatist that wrote about Dionysus
Aristophanes
A comedic dramatist that addressed human striving
Skeptics
People who doubted that there was a possibility of certain knowledge
Stoics
People who classified all human beings as part of a family
Epicureans
People who believe pleasure to be the most important thing
