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Exam 2 Study Guide Flashcards

1
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What were the Minoans like?

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Luxurious, peaceful, had many palaces

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What were the Mycenaeans like?

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Warlike

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3
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What were the dark ages/geometric pd like?

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We don’t know much. It was assumed to be a dark age, but there is evidence of good trade

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4
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What was the Archaic Pd like?

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Cultural revolution, age of Tyranny, Crisis in the Polis, ends with Persian wars

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What was the Classical Pd like?

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Delian League, Athens takes over, Athens becomes the cultural center, monuments, plays, philosophy, etc boom

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6
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What was the Hellenistic Pd like?

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Macedonian rule

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7
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When was the 1st Persian war?

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490

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When was the 2nd Persian war?

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480-479

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9
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When was the Peloponnesian war?

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431-404

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Administrative complex (“palace”)

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Multiple story complex that was an admin center as well as where the leader’s family would live

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Bull leaping

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Minoans were famous for bull-leaping, had art of it, it may have been religious

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12
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Central court

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Main part of the palace

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13
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magazine

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storage vessel

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14
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Citadel

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Seat of the ruler, where his family would live, heavily defended

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15
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Cyclopean masonry

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Rough boulders, later Greeks thought the Cyclops had built this

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16
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Megaron

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Ceremonial throne room

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17
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Shaft graves

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Family burials filled with gold and weapons

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18
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Lion Gate

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Gate with relieving triangle, lead into Mycenae, huge lions, wall jutted out

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19
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Tholos tomb

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Tombs for the ruler and family, huge, doorway w/ relieving triangle, 40 ft tall, Reused for generations

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20
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Linear A

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Non-Greek, Minoan, Cannot read it

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21
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Linear B

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Greek, Mycenaean, can read

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22
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Greek Alphabet

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Came in the Greek Renaissance, adapted from Phoenicians

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23
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Delian League

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150 Greek states united, leader- Athens, Goals- stop Persia, revenge, booty

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Athenian Empire

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Athens takes charge of Delian League, won’t let people leave, Democracy is tied to the Empire

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25
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Hoplite

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Citizen soldiers, state provided armor, organized ranks

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26
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Tyrant

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“Big man” one who seizes control by irregular means, popular leader

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27
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Democracy

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diffusion of political power throughout male citizen body

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28
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Oligarchy

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Rule by a few

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29
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Monarchy

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Rule by one

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30
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Xenia

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guest/host relationship overseen by Zeus

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31
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Geras

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Prize, representation of time

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32
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Time

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Honor, value

33
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Kleos

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Immortal glory

34
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Menis

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Superhuman rage

35
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Promakhoi

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fighting at close range

36
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Heroic Code

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beat death, name survives forever. Geras, Time, and Kleos

37
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Archon

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Replace Basileus as rulers, different types

38
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Drama

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Dramatic plays

39
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Tragedy

40
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Old comedy

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Made fun of plotics

41
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Helots

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Inhabitants reduced to subservient state

42
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Agoge

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Spartan Institutional training

43
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Gerousia

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Spartan council of Elders

44
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Polis

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City state

45
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8th Century Renaissance

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Homer, Hesiod, Greek alphabet, Art, mythology, Polis

46
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War of the successors

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Who would take over Alexander’s empire, divided into Kingdoms

47
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12th century collapse

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Mycenaean cities destroyed, Hittites fall, Egypt attacked, Mycenaeans leave, 1/2 of Greece goes away

48
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Sir Arthur Evans

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Found Minoans

49
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Heinrich Schliemann

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Found Mycenaeans and Troy

50
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Michael Ventris

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Cracked linear B

51
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Knossos

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Biggest Minoan Palace, maybe ruled them all

52
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Mycenae

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Main city of Mycenaeans

53
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Athens

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Greek city, Beginnings of democracy, took charge of Greece

54
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Sparta

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Militaristic, Dorian, Isolated

55
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Drakon

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Athenian Tyrant, wrote laws

56
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Solon

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Athenian tyrant, created laws abolishing debt, debt-slavery, horoi, new citizen classifications, changed too much

57
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Peisistratos

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3 coups to take over Athens, ruled with tight grip, grew festivals, trade, economy, building, population, taxes, etc``

58
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Hippias and Hipparchos

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Sons of Peisistratos, fear of assassination, make crazy laws, assassinated b/c of a love triangle

59
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Kleisthenes

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Takes aristocratic power away, makes a council of 500, forces people to partake in gov, too much change, new leader every day

60
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Herodotus

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Greek historian, said Persian army was 5 million strong

61
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Thucydides

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Also Greek historian, wrote about Peloponnesian war, predicted it to be most important in Greek history

62
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Leonidas

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One of 2 Spartan kings, died at Thermopylae

63
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Themistokles

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Archon, Convinces Greece to build bigger Navy, saves Greece

64
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Darius

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Persian King, wants to punish the Greeks

65
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Xerxes

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Son of Darius, Strong army and navy, huge army, loses to Greeks, second Persian War

66
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Peloponnesian War

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Civil war: Sparta vs Athens, Sparts wins, but not real winner

67
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Perikles

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Athenian leader, attacks Spartan coast

68
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Macedon

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North Greek, different cultures, same language, united by Phillip II, starts taking on a more Greek culture

69
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Phillip II

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Unites Greece, assassinated

70
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Alexander the Great

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Succeeds Phillip II, Takes over Persian empire, dies of fever

71
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Ptolemy

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Alexander’s general, takes over Egyptian territory

72
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When was the Ionian Revolt?

73
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When were the Minoans?

74
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When were the Macedonians?

75
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When was the Geometric pd?

76
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When was the Archaic Pd?

77
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When was the Classical Pd?

78
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When was the Hellenistic Pd?

CNE (19 decks)

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