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 Persian force was decisively defeat by the Athenians at _______ __ _________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.

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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 father’s lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks

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Xerxes I

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5
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31 city-states form a coalition called the _________ ________ 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

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7
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Reasons for Greek victory:

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  • Greeks had better and more farsighted commanders
  • Better armor and Worships, that were more effective in close combat
  • 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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The Athenian society was __ percent slaves

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40%

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11
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The increase in Athenian naval power

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Promoted 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 understanding 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 and desirability of Athenian woman
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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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Competitive intellectuals and travelling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education then most wealthy young men citizens received

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The Sophists

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16
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Sophists taught

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Above all rhetoric

17
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Was one of the most attractive aspects of sophist

18
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The father of relativism is

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Protagoras

19
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Socrates was the first philosopher to make ________ ___ ______ the main focus of his teachings

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Ethics and Morality

20
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Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning

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Socratic Method

21
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Father of western medicine

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Hippocrates

22
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considered the father of History

23
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violent arrogance that, according to the Greeks drove the competitive spirit to excess

24
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Causes of the war

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The 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
- Win a war of attrition using their superior wealth of resources - Avoid the superior spartan land army
26
Upon the death an Athenian statesman _____ assumed the control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative defensive strategy and began an aggressive strategy to the war
Cleon
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Following the destruction of the Sicilian 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
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Spartans spare Athens, tear down the long walls and installed an oligarchy of Athenian citizens called
The Thirty-tyrants
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The new regime determined to settle the internal strife (desire for revenge) that threatening to tear Athens apart issued first known _____ in Western History
Anesty
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After the War Athens found itself right back where it started in 500 B.C.
Fearful of Sparta and worried whether the world's first democracy could survive