Greece 1 Flashcards
Minoan palace
Knossos
Shrines
Areas dedicated to gods
Frescoes
Water color paintings
When was the Trojan war?
1250 BC, between Mycenae and Troy
Straits
Narrow water passages
Homer, 750 BC
Writer of Iliad, and Odyssey
Iliad
Epic poem of Trojan war, about Achilles
Odyssey
Tale of hero Odysseus, on his way home from war to his wife, and faces many perils along the way
Acropolis
High city, below latex main city
Citizen
Free resident
Monarchy
A hereditary ruler
Rule by better people
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Rule from small wealthy elite
Phalanx
Massive tactical formation
Sparta
City state, home to spartans, ruthless men and woman
Athens
Place that slowly became the first democracy
Solon
Appointed leader in Athens, freed all slaves
Tyrants
People who gained power by force
Legislature
Lawmaking body
What did Greeks believe?
Believed that woman and slaves could not think
Every man make up his mind to fight and move his enemy! Strong as I am, it’s hard for me to face so many men and fight with all at once… And yet I will!
Homer, Iliad
Alliance
Formal agreement between two or more nations
Pericles
Was a wise and skill full leader, who was voted for ostracism
Stipend
Fixed salary
Jury
Panel of citizens who have the right to make final judgement in a trial
Ostracism
When someone is voted out
What killed Pericles?
During Athens war with Sparta, he allowed people fleeing from the country to enter the city, and it caused plagues which killed him
Lover of wisdom
Philosophers
Logic
Ration thinking
Rhetoric
Art of skillfully speaking
Socrates
Wise Philosopher, drank poison
Plato
Socrates’s student, wrote book “The Republic”
Who was Plato’s most famous student???
Aristotle
Parthenon
A temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena
Agora
Commercial center of each city state
Acropolis
Site of major temples
What is the place of Naked Boys?
Gymnasia
Theaters were in every city except…
Sparta
Cleisthenes (508/7 BC)
Made democracy for other people
Phalanx
Battle formation
Themistocles (525/460 BC)
Was ruler, had 200 trireme made (boats)
Poseidon
Lord of seas, earth quakes, and horses
Trageties
Plays of human suffering
Father of history
Herodotus
Alexander the great
Concord a lot of the world, but died and his empire fell apart
Assimilate
Absorb ideas
Alaxandria
City in Egypt
Dionysus
God of wine, celebration, ecstasy, and THEATER
Hippocrates
Philosopher that studded disease
Pythagoras
Calculated the formula for the right triangle
Heliocentric
Sun centered universe
Storied colonnade
Stoa
Person who mastered lever and pulley
Archimedes
Polis
City state
Minoans
lived on island of crete, were people who’s great achivements depended on its trade, not its conquest. They did the jumping over big bulls thing, and used frescoes. For some reason, the entire civilization dissapeared.
Phoenicians
Antiant culture made up of independent city states
Mycenians
Were against troy in the trojean war
Dorians
People who concored Laconia, built sparta, and became spartans.
Aristophanes
Comedian play writter, wrote story about how women banned together to make their husbands face sparta
Aristotle
Said women are as superior to men as younger people are to adults
Macedonia
Took over Athens in 338 bc
Phillip
Father of Alexander the great, hired Artistotle to train his son.
Delian Leuge
The alliance that Athens made with other city states
Hellenistic
Citys that were Hellenistic had much more artistry and sciences
Peleponisian war
People wernt happy with the Delian Leuge taking over there homes, so Sparta and other citie states formed the Peleponesian leuge, and started a war against them.
Schlieman
The man who set out to prove the Trojean war was not just a myth
