Chapter 3 Flashcards
Outraged the Athenian assembly who rejected it
This act of submission
The Persians force was decisivly defected by the Athenians at the _____________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.
Battle of Marathon
Themistocles
Use silver from a publicly owned mine to expand the navy
Tasked with avenging his fathers lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks
Xerxes I
31 Greek city-states formed a coalition called ___________ to resist the Persian invasion
Hellenic League
The coalition to be led by the…
Spartan King Leonidas I
Reasons for Greek victory
- Greeks had better and more farsighted commanders
- Better armor and warships, that were more effective in close combat
- The military alliance that united against a common enemy to preserve their political freedom
Controlled by Athens, and consisted of some 300 city-states
Delian League
Controlled by Sparta and consisted of over 50 city-states
Peloponnesian League
Slave ___% of Athenian society
40%
The increase in Athenian naval power
Prompted the development of a wider democracy at home but it undermined the democracy of the Delian League
Radical Democracy introduced reforms that challenged traditional understandings of society
Expand participation to the masses yet reserve select leadership to the elite
Pericles, Citizenship law
Restricted Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both born in Athens; law increased the status ands desirability of Athenian women
A covered walkway or portico, offering a protective atmosphere usually located on the edge of the Agora
Stoa
Agora
The central market square
Competitive intellectuals and traveling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education that most wealthy young male citizens received
The Sophists
Sophists taught
Above all rhetoric
Was on of the most attractive aspects of Sophists
Rhetoric
The father of relativism is..
Protagoras
Socrates was the first Philosopher to make ______________ the main focus of his teachings
Ethics and Mortality
Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning
Socratic Method
“Father of Western Medicine”
Hippocrates
Considered the Father of History
Herodotus
Violent arrogance that according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess
Hubris
Causes of the war:
1The spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressiveness with which Athens dominated the Delian League
The Athenian Strategy
- Win a war of attraction using their superior wealth of resources
- Avoid the superior Spartan loud army
Upon Pericles death an Athenian statesman _________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative dede dive strategy and begin aggressive starting to the war
Cleon
Following the destruction of the Silicon Expedition
- Much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens
- The Syracusans sent their fleet to the Peloponnesians
- The Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships
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
amnesty
After the war Athens found itself right back where it started in 500 BC
Fearful of Sparta and worried whether the worlds first democracy could survive
