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Chapter 7- Ancient Greece Flashcards

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1
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Where is Greece

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On the Balkan Peninsula coming out of southeastern Europe

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What are the two maim parts of Ancient Greece

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Attica- north

Peloponnesus-south almost Island

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Where did the Minoans live

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Crete

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Mycenaeans lived on

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The mainland (Peloponnesus)

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Where did the Trojans live

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I’m troy across the Aegean drain Asia Minor

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6
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When and how was minoa established

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2000 BC when Abraham left Ur In Sumer

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What parts of Minoan culture did we recently discover in 1900

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The palace of king Minos at Knossos on Crete

Plumbing, vases, bronze daggers, cups of gold

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What were the Mycenaeans names after

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The city of Mycenae

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9
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Who were the Greeks of the Trojan war

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The Mycenaeans

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10
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Who was the Trojan war recounted by and in what

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Homer

Iliad and odyssey

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What group of people adopted much of the Minoan culture

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The Mycenaeans

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What year did the Mycenaeans raid the Knossos and conquer Crete

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1400 BC

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What group of people emerged from the fusion of the Mycenaeans and the dorians

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Hellenes who are the Greeks of classical times

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What period of the Hellenes made great contributions to western civilization

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The classical period

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Trojan war date

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1200BC

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What two groups were fighting in the Trojan war

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The Mycenaeans vs the city of Trojan

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17
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How many years did the Mycenaeans lay siege to Troy

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10 yrs

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18
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What is the Iliad about

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The Trojan war

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What is the odyssey about

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A brave Greek warrior named Odysseus and his 10 yr journey home after the defeat of Troy

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Zeus

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The father of the gods associated with thunder and lightning

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Apollo

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Connection with the sun

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Poseidon

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Connection with the sea

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Artemis

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Connection with the moon

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Wisdom

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Athena

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War

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Aries

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Love

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Aphrodite

27
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Hero’s

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We’re humans that can die like Achilles

28
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What were the gods a symbol of

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Civic arrogance and not very personal

29
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What did homers stories lead to

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Ancestral worship which made family ties really strong

30
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Polis

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(City) families who became villages and tribes who joined to form this

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Acropolis

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A hilltop fortress providing refuge and a seat for the govt and religion

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Agora

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Marketplace and concourse of commerce conversation and debate

33
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The two things many cities had

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Amphitheater’s

Gimnasiums

34
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How many city states

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150

35
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How was unity started

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Through common Language religions and war

36
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The olympics were developed in and were and example of

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776 BC

UNITY

37
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When did the Olympic stop and when were they recovered as an international event

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394BC

1896 AD

38
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Greco Persian war dates

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490-479 BC

39
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When did the Ionians revolt against the Persians

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499 BC

40
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What cities refuses to submit to Darius

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Athens
Eretria
Sparta

41
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Explain the battle of marathon

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There you send a fleetOf 600 chips to Greece. They defeated Eritrea in March to Marathon just north east of Athens. The athenians charged the Persians and won even without the delayed troops from Sparta. This proved to the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten and brought for Stege to Athens that begin to rise to power among the city states

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Explain the battle of Thermopylae

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10 years after marathon Darius’ son Xerxes the first sent a huge army to conquer Greece. The Persians met the Greeks at Thermopylae a narrow mountain pass and 480 BC The near past allowed to Greeks to hold off the Persian for three days until a Greek traitor show the Persians away over the mountains learning of the betrayal the spartan later will you notice ordered with drawl rocky and 300 spartan men stay behind and gave their lives to delay the Persians

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Describe the battle of Salamis

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When the Persians arrived in Athens they found it had been evacuated to the island of Salamis. Xerxes burned Athens but then had his fleet of ships broken and defeated by the Athenians and what is called the first major naval battle in history

44
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Turning point in world history

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Xerxes defeat in Greece

45
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Cycle of Greek govt

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Monarchy 
Aristocracy 
Oligarchy
Tyranny 
Democracy 
Oligarchy tyranny back to democracy
46
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Monarchy

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Rule by one king

47
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Aristocracy

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Rule by few best

Educated and advanced

48
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Oligarchy

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Rule by few rich

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Tyranny

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Rule by one man with selfish intent

50
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Democracy

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Rule by the many poor it common ppl

51
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On of the only city states to not go through the cycle

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Sparta

52
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What kind of a state was Sparta

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Regimented military state

53
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Three social classes of Sparta

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  1. ruling class
  2. Middle class
  3. Slaves (helots)
54
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Helots

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Generally conquered peoples forced to work the land about the Spartans trained relentlessly for military purposes

55
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Describe the schooling for boys I’m Sparta

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Physical training begins at age 7

56
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In Sparta men who couldn’t fulfill military service for a lifetime were

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Of no use to the spartan state that demanded absolute subordination of its citizens

57
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What did the Spartans do to weak babies

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Left on the mountainside to die

58
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Why didn’t Sparta contribute much to history

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Bc a governmentally regimented state often results in intellectual stagnation.

59
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What league is Sparta form

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The Peloponnesian league

An alliance of several city states in the Peloponnesus

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