Chapter 5 Flashcards
Trojan War
10 year war vs troy (independent trading center located near anatolia)
may be fictional
Babylonians
Nomadic warriors know as the Amorites who invaded Mesopotamia and overwhelmed sumer
Hammurabi
Capitol on Babylon
Homer
during the dorian age
blind, composed epics
wrote the iliad during the trojan war
Athens’ Golden Age
Dilean league maed athens beautiful
glorious art and architecture (parthenon)
rama (tragedy and comedy)
Democracy
form of government where citizens rule directly, either directly or thru representatives
Persian Wars
a series of wars around 500bc inwhich greek sity states battled the presian empire
moved sparta and athens to thier greatest glory
Athinean Democracy
Direct democracy- form of government where citizens rule directly, not thru representatives (important legacy for Periclean Athens)
very important to Pericles plan
Pelopnnesian War
war between Athens and Sparta
Sparta won (stronger army/plague in Athens took out 1/3 of pop./attacked Syracuse)
Athens lost all power/wealth resulting in a surrender
Sparta
military state, not a democracy
2 kings ruled military
declared the war against Athens
Aristotle
questioned the nature of the world and human belief, thought, and knowledge
invented a way of arguing according to rules of logic
used his methods in physics, biology, and phycology
tutored Alexander the Great
Plato
philospher + student of Socrates
thought of creating a republic where smartest person was king
Hellenistic
relating to the civilization, language, are, science, and literature of the greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to late second bc