Greece 1 Flashcards

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Minoan palace

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Knossos

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Shrines

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Areas dedicated to gods

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Frescoes

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Water color paintings

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When was the Trojan war?

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1250 BC, between Mycenae and Troy

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Straits

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Narrow water passages

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Homer, 750 BC

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Writer of Iliad, and Odyssey

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Iliad

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Epic poem of Trojan war, about Achilles

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Odyssey

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Tale of hero Odysseus, on his way home from war to his wife, and faces many perils along the way

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Acropolis

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High city, below latex main city

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Citizen

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Free resident

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Monarchy

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A hereditary ruler

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Rule by better people

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Aristocracy

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Oligarchy

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Rule from small wealthy elite

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Phalanx

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Massive tactical formation

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Sparta

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City state, home to spartans, ruthless men and woman

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Athens

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Place that slowly became the first democracy

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Solon

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Appointed leader in Athens, freed all slaves

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Tyrants

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People who gained power by force

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Legislature

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Lawmaking body

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What did Greeks believe?

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Believed that woman and slaves could not think

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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!

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Homer, Iliad

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Alliance

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Formal agreement between two or more nations

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Pericles

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Was a wise and skill full leader, who was voted for ostracism

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Stipend

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Fixed salary

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Jury
Panel of citizens who have the right to make final judgement in a trial
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Ostracism
When someone is voted out
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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
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Lover of wisdom
Philosophers
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Logic
Ration thinking
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Rhetoric
Art of skillfully speaking
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Socrates
Wise Philosopher, drank poison
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Plato
Socrates's student, wrote book "The Republic"
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Who was Plato's most famous student???
Aristotle
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Parthenon
A temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena
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Agora
Commercial center of each city state
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Acropolis
Site of major temples
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What is the place of Naked Boys?
Gymnasia
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Theaters were in every city except...
Sparta
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Cleisthenes (508/7 BC)
Made democracy for other people
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Phalanx
Battle formation
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Themistocles (525/460 BC)
Was ruler, had 200 trireme made (boats)
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Poseidon
Lord of seas, earth quakes, and horses
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Trageties
Plays of human suffering
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Father of history
Herodotus
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Alexander the great
Concord a lot of the world, but died and his empire fell apart
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Assimilate
Absorb ideas
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Alaxandria
City in Egypt
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Dionysus
God of wine, celebration, ecstasy, and THEATER
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Hippocrates
Philosopher that studded disease
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Pythagoras
Calculated the formula for the right triangle
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Heliocentric
Sun centered universe
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Storied colonnade
Stoa
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Person who mastered lever and pulley
Archimedes
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Polis
City state
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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.
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Phoenicians
Antiant culture made up of independent city states
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Mycenians
Were against troy in the trojean war
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Dorians
People who concored Laconia, built sparta, and became spartans.
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Aristophanes
Comedian play writter, wrote story about how women banned together to make their husbands face sparta
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Aristotle
Said women are as superior to men as younger people are to adults
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Macedonia
Took over Athens in 338 bc
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Phillip
Father of Alexander the great, hired Artistotle to train his son.
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Delian Leuge
The alliance that Athens made with other city states
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Hellenistic
Citys that were Hellenistic had much more artistry and sciences
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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.
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Schlieman
The man who set out to prove the Trojean war was not just a myth