Exam 2 Flashcards
polis
who- city state
what - they are their own state that is dependent on themselves - 1200 of them
where - Greece
when - Ancient Greece
why - they wanted their own
Athens
who- civilization that would vote on issues or main things happening in their city
what - one of the polis - the first democratic democracy in the world
where - Ancient Greece
when - 7th century BC
why - there was horrible tension - they appoint Draco which created laws that where really harsh
- he wrote his laws in blood and not ink because he was s tough and also showed that things where really bad
- then they started to easy up and it caused him to not be in-charge
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Sparta
who- the most powerful city state - they didn’t want fancy shit so they just kick ass in war
what - one of the polis civilizations
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Persian Wars
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what - the first Persian invasion of Greece
where - biggest government. Taken over where Greeks live
when - 492 BC
why - decides to invade because one little empire burned off a city that was the Persians. It became a war and the Greeks where outnumbered
Other collective Greeks all joined together and get the Spartans
Pheidippides runs to the Spartans 250 miles
Spartans did not want to cause they where worshipping Apollo
Greeks and Persians line up and the Greeks are fighting hard and the Persians didn’t care that much (had better equipment and wanted to win more) Greeks won against the Persians
Most significant ball of history
Second Persian invasion
- xerxes wanted to invade again and the Greeks go back to the spartas and they took 300,000 people and they go and fight the Persians 10 years after marathon
Greeks get destroyed and then they burn Athens down
Then the Greeks win finally at the bale of plataea
Peloponnesian War
who- at Athens and the yellow bits and the Spartas and their allies - Sparta wins
what - Athens has good navy and Sparta has good army
Athens makes walls - then plague rips through Athens and a lot of people died then they went and tried to Conquer another city and they loose a lot of people
where - the Athenian empire
when - longest war (30 years)
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Sparta - thinks Athens has a stupid democracy - get rid of the democracy and then put in the rulers of Athens - only lasts a year
Then they boot them out and then start the democracy again ‘
——- Drastically changed Greece forever
Scope of the war ( known as world war 1) - everything weakened for Athens
Never regained pre-war prestige
Theatre
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Socrates
who- father of the western philosophy
what - theories survive through Plato
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why - created the Socratic method - asks question not just telling the answers - constant questioning
Was either loved or hated - loved - thought philosophy of the love of wisdom
Or known as the stealer
Plato
who- Socrates pupil
what - founded the academy - learning like a university
where - a place that is only allowed for certain people
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Sophists
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Democracy
who- —-demoskratia - the dean is in charge
maybe look back on Athens if not talked about —- pick stuff out there
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Tyrant
who- someone who takes power from force - not elected or through family
what - usually jerks but it didn’t start bad
where - Ancient Greece
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(Pysisturus ) (doesn’t need to be in the vocab but it is intresting)
- coins , parties, builds the panathenaic stadium, buildings,
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Helot
who-Greeks enslaving Greeks classical Greek
What- the best military of the antient Greek - the only professional army in the world at this time
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when - classical Greek
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Cleisthenes (guessing on the test)
who- the founder of democracy
what - dregs or subdivisions for Attica
Tied to a place not a family
To advise according to the laws what was vest for the people
Elected by lot
(Where you live you vote)
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when - Ancient Greece
why - voting allowed people to have a voice
Heavily created the ideals of the west
Lycurgus
Law Reform - opens up the door for democracy to start
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Gerusia - council of elders
apella - spartan citizens
Periokoi - don’t know much about them
Ephors - 26 old men that gave permission
Agoge - girls, boys and babies
dual kingship
sent him to the gods and asked what to do - this is how you govern
what - 28 old men so they legalize things
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Solon
who - very smart and nice guy
- “the shaking off of burdens” - gonna make a plan to help you with your burdens
- —- he had to have a balance of rich people to poor people - people where falling into debt slavery (you will pay off in slavery if your in debt)
- he abolished the debt problems which the poor people loved but the rich people hated it - he tried to make people as happy as he could
Hoplite
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Phalanx
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Hellenism
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Stoicism
what - stoa - porch poilile - painted
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why - the way to live a happy life is to live a happy life
Virtue is sufficient for happiness
Self control helps with negative emotions
Logic helps to decide what’s best
Universe = god
Pantheistic
Epicureanism
Pleasure seeking
Seek pleasure but avoiding pain
Thought the gos didn’t care about the world
Don’t fear god,
Done worry about death,
What is good is east to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure
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Cosmopolitanism
who- cosmos thought that everyone should be created equal and that everyone is apart of the global community
Euclid
who- father of geometry
what - piles all the geometry of the days and creates a textbook of geometry
Second best book selling next to the Bible
Only in 20th century did it get replaced
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Eratosthenes
who- head of the library of Alexandra
what - he would read scrolls
where - he read a guy didn’t see the shadow during the summer s
Calculated the circumference of the earth
Distance between the earth and sun
Degree of tilt of the earths axis
Invented leap year
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Archimedes
who- investor of language for very large numbers
what - invented the archimedes claw
where - Greece area
when - heliolithic period
why - used Aristarchus heliocentric to determine how many grains of sand will fit in the universe
Archimeties palmist - use animal skin for the paper then write with ink - possible created calculus
