Classical Greece Flashcards
Orligarchy
A government in which a select group of people exercise control
Philosophers
A person who seeks wisdom and enlightenment or “thinker”
Pericles
Democratic, Athens “golden age”of Athens and were figure of at the government
Dorians
Members of people who interviewed grease conquered the peloponneous and destroyed in the Mycenaen culture
Spartans
Citizens of Sparta
Hellenistic Era
a period in history as the time between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Roman domination Great culture was dominated by the Mediterranean and hat gave the name “Hellenistic” and “Hellas” meaning Greece
Athens
Followers of Athen
Tyrant
Ruler who sees power by force from the artistocrats gained support from newly rich and poor and maintain power by using hired soldiers and fighting
Parthenon
Building made in honor of Athens and Tactus
Sparta
- Train to kids to fight at young age
- love war
- declined after Leuctra battle
Mycenaeans
Came from grasslands of southern Russia
Minoans
- Begin Bronze Age civilization
- arose island of Crete
Alexander the Great?
-King of Macedonia
-united Greece
-concord Persian empire
and much of surrounding area
-spread Greek culture
Persian wars ?
Persia vs. Greece seriro of wars
- Persia attacked Greece
- Greece won
- marathon and the maplae
Peloponnesian war?
Athens v. Sparta
- Sparta won
- Greece fell apart