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

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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

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The Sophists

17
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Sophists taught

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Above all rhetoric

18
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Was on of the most attractive aspects of Sophists

19
Q

The father of relativism is..

A

Protagoras

20
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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

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Socratic Method

22
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“Father of Western Medicine”

A

Hippocrates

23
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Considered the Father of History

24
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Violent arrogance that according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess

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Causes of the war:
1The spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressiveness with which Athens dominated the Delian League
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The Athenian Strategy
1. Win a war of attraction using their superior wealth of resources 2. Avoid the superior Spartan loud army
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Upon Pericles death an Athenian statesman _________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative dede dive strategy and begin aggressive starting to the war
Cleon
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Following the destruction of the Silicon Expedition
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
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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
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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