Chapter 7- Ancient Greece Flashcards
Where is Greece
On the Balkan Peninsula coming out of southeastern Europe
What are the two maim parts of Ancient Greece
Attica- north
Peloponnesus-south almost Island
Where did the Minoans live
Crete
Mycenaeans lived on
The mainland (Peloponnesus)
Where did the Trojans live
I’m troy across the Aegean drain Asia Minor
When and how was minoa established
2000 BC when Abraham left Ur In Sumer
What parts of Minoan culture did we recently discover in 1900
The palace of king Minos at Knossos on Crete
Plumbing, vases, bronze daggers, cups of gold
What were the Mycenaeans names after
The city of Mycenae
Who were the Greeks of the Trojan war
The Mycenaeans
Who was the Trojan war recounted by and in what
Homer
Iliad and odyssey
What group of people adopted much of the Minoan culture
The Mycenaeans
What year did the Mycenaeans raid the Knossos and conquer Crete
1400 BC
What group of people emerged from the fusion of the Mycenaeans and the dorians
Hellenes who are the Greeks of classical times
What period of the Hellenes made great contributions to western civilization
The classical period
Trojan war date
1200BC
What two groups were fighting in the Trojan war
The Mycenaeans vs the city of Trojan
How many years did the Mycenaeans lay siege to Troy
10 yrs
What is the Iliad about
The Trojan war
What is the odyssey about
A brave Greek warrior named Odysseus and his 10 yr journey home after the defeat of Troy
Zeus
The father of the gods associated with thunder and lightning
Apollo
Connection with the sun
Poseidon
Connection with the sea
Artemis
Connection with the moon
Wisdom
Athena
War
Aries
Love
Aphrodite
Hero’s
We’re humans that can die like Achilles
What were the gods a symbol of
Civic arrogance and not very personal
What did homers stories lead to
Ancestral worship which made family ties really strong
Polis
(City) families who became villages and tribes who joined to form this
Acropolis
A hilltop fortress providing refuge and a seat for the govt and religion
Agora
Marketplace and concourse of commerce conversation and debate
The two things many cities had
Amphitheater’s
Gimnasiums
How many city states
150
How was unity started
Through common Language religions and war
The olympics were developed in and were and example of
776 BC
UNITY
When did the Olympic stop and when were they recovered as an international event
394BC
1896 AD
Greco Persian war dates
490-479 BC
When did the Ionians revolt against the Persians
499 BC
What cities refuses to submit to Darius
Athens
Eretria
Sparta
Explain the battle of marathon
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
Explain the battle of Thermopylae
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
Describe the battle of Salamis
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
Turning point in world history
Xerxes defeat in Greece
Cycle of Greek govt
Monarchy Aristocracy Oligarchy Tyranny Democracy Oligarchy tyranny back to democracy
Monarchy
Rule by one king
Aristocracy
Rule by few best
Educated and advanced
Oligarchy
Rule by few rich
Tyranny
Rule by one man with selfish intent
Democracy
Rule by the many poor it common ppl
On of the only city states to not go through the cycle
Sparta
What kind of a state was Sparta
Regimented military state
Three social classes of Sparta
- ruling class
- Middle class
- Slaves (helots)
Helots
Generally conquered peoples forced to work the land about the Spartans trained relentlessly for military purposes
Describe the schooling for boys I’m Sparta
Physical training begins at age 7
In Sparta men who couldn’t fulfill military service for a lifetime were
Of no use to the spartan state that demanded absolute subordination of its citizens
What did the Spartans do to weak babies
Left on the mountainside to die
Why didn’t Sparta contribute much to history
Bc a governmentally regimented state often results in intellectual stagnation.
What league is Sparta form
The Peloponnesian league
An alliance of several city states in the Peloponnesus
