Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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Outraged the Athenian assembly who rejected it

A

This act of submission

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2
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The Persians force was decisivly defected by the Athenians at the _____________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.

A

Battle of Marathon

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3
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Themistocles

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Use silver from a publicly owned mine to expand the navy

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4
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Tasked with avenging his fathers lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks

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Xerxes I

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5
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31 Greek city-states formed a coalition called ___________ to resist the Persian invasion

A

Hellenic League

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6
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The coalition to be led by the…

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Spartan King Leonidas I

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7
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Reasons for Greek victory

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  1. Greeks had better and more farsighted commanders
  2. Better armor and warships, that were more effective in close combat
  3. The military alliance that united against a common enemy to preserve their political freedom
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8
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Controlled by Athens, and consisted of some 300 city-states

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Delian League

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9
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Controlled by Sparta and consisted of over 50 city-states

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Peloponnesian League

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10
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Slave ___% of Athenian society

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40%

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11
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The increase in Athenian naval power

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Prompted the development of a wider democracy at home but it undermined the democracy of the Delian League

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12
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Radical Democracy introduced reforms that challenged traditional understandings of society

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Expand participation to the masses yet reserve select leadership to the elite

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13
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Pericles, Citizenship law

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Restricted Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both born in Athens; law increased the status ands desirability of Athenian women

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14
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A covered walkway or portico, offering a protective atmosphere usually located on the edge of the Agora

A

Stoa

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15
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Agora

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The central market square

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16
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Competitive intellectuals and traveling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education that most wealthy young male citizens received

A

The Sophists

17
Q

Sophists taught

A

Above all rhetoric

18
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Was on of the most attractive aspects of Sophists

A

Rhetoric

19
Q

The father of relativism is..

A

Protagoras

20
Q

Socrates was the first Philosopher to make ______________ the main focus of his teachings

A

Ethics and Mortality

21
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Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning

A

Socratic Method

22
Q

“Father of Western Medicine”

A

Hippocrates

23
Q

Considered the Father of History

A

Herodotus

24
Q

Violent arrogance that according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess

A

Hubris

25
Q

Causes of the war:

A

1The spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressiveness with which Athens dominated the Delian League

26
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The Athenian Strategy

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  1. Win a war of attraction using their superior wealth of resources
  2. Avoid the superior Spartan loud army
27
Q

Upon Pericles death an Athenian statesman _________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative dede dive strategy and begin aggressive starting to the war

A

Cleon

28
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Following the destruction of the Silicon Expedition

A
  1. Much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens
  2. The Syracusans sent their fleet to the Peloponnesians
  3. The Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships
29
Q

Spartans spare Athens, tear down the long walls and install (desire for revenge) that threatening to tear Athens apart issued first known _________ in Western history

A

amnesty

30
Q

After the war Athens found itself right back where it started in 500 BC

A

Fearful of Sparta and worried whether the worlds first democracy could survive