Chapter 3 - Greece And Rome Flashcards
The Minoan civilization was located on what island
Crete
What was the dominant city on the Attica peninsula
Athens
Where is Magna Graecia
Southern Italy, Sicily
What did the Greeks called their heavily colonized area of Asia minor
Ionia
How did colonization influence a sense of cultural identity among the Greeks
Fostered a Panhellenic spirit
What event led Sparta becoming a military state
Rebellion of helots
What were hoplites.
Greek warriors
In the Athenian Empire what was required of dependent states
To pay tribute
What were the warships of ancient Greece
Trireme
What was the importance of Acropolis in Athens
Served as a religious and Civic Center
What were Thucydides views on human nature
Human nature’s unchanging in an educated historian could predict the future
The earliest Aegean civilization was located on
Crete
Homers epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey refer primarily to what period Greek history
Archaic
Polis means
City
According to legend the Greeks finally destroyed the city of Troy using
A wooden horse
Who founded colonies before and during the Greek colonial period
Phoenicians
Aristotle valued the Polis very highly because he thought only the polis provided what
Law and Justice
Sparta was located on what Peninsula
Peloponnesus
What is a Hoplite Phalany
A disciplined closed fighting formation
Sparta was a ____ state
Military
In Spartan government, the _______ represented the democratic element.
Assembly
The Athenian aristocrat who seized power and created a tyranny was
Pisistratus
The myth of Persian invincibility was broken at
Marathon
Spartans and Athens fight each other in the
Peloponnesian War
The Delian League was created under
Athens leadership
The primary cause of the Peloponesian war was
Athens growing domination over the other city states.
Greek historian who wrote History of the Persian Wars
Herodotus
Athenian who wrote the history of the Peloponesian war
Thucydides
Developed a teaching system which employed students reasoning to help them learn
Socrates
In their effort to uncover the will of the gods, the ancient Greeks made us of
Oracles
One of the Hellenistic kingdoms that succeeded Alexander was that of the
Ptolemies in Egypt
Alexander was forced to end his conquest in India because of
Mutiny
Rome was located on the plain of
Latium
The people who governed Rome at the outset of its history were
Etruscans
The government of Rome was originally a monarchy but later became a
Republic
The class of noble landowners who dominated Roman society and politics were
Patricians
During the early republic, the Roman _______ had control over the finances and foreign policy
Senate
The chief executive officers of the Roman Republic were
Consuls
The defenders of the plebeians were known as
Tribunes
Rome’s treatment of conquered Italian cities promoted loyalty by granting Roman
Citizenship
The first Punic was was waged between ________ and Rome over control of the island of _____.
Carthage. Sicily.
In early Roman government the ______ ___ included common citizens.
Curiale Assemby
The Roman general who began a new system of military recruitment was
Marius
Large plantations used for growing cash crops and worked by slaves were
Latifundia
Tiberius Gracchus sought to solve the problems facing the Roman republic through
Land reform
The Roman general who returned from Spain as a military hero was
Pompey
The first Triumvirate was composed of
Caesar, Pompy, and Crassus
After defeating the assassins of Caeser, Octavians main rival for power was
Marc Anthoney
Established the Praetorian Guard to guard him and his successors
Octavian
The most important basis of Augustus power was the
Army
The poet Ovid wrote love elegies and was banished by
Augustus
Were deemed vital by the government as it diverted the mass of the population from potentially political or riotous activities
Gladiatorial Games
The key figure in the spread of Christianity outside of the Jewish community was
Paul of Tarsus
The first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity was
Constantine
What power did the imperium give to Roman Kings
The right to issues commands and to enforce them.
What were the duties of the censor
To conduct a census and create citizen rolls.
What was the land north of the Daube River
Germania
Rich men who could qualify to serve in the Roman cavalry
Equestrians
The Greeks decisively defeated the Persians at
Salamis
The leading cultural center of the Hellenistic world
Alexandria
