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How long did Ancient Greece last?

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2500 BC- 30 BC

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What do all Greek city-states have in common?

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Language and religion

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Where is Greece?

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Southern part of the Balkan Peninsula an island near the Aegean Sea

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True or False: Greece is the biggest influence on the Western World?

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True

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What are some contributions from Greece?

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Government, philosophy, medicine, science, art, architecture, athletics, writing, history, lesiure

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True or False: Some places in Greece are more than fifty miles from the coast

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False

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What is the climate in Greece?

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Mild

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What are the two leading city-states in Greece?

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Athens and Sparta

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How far are Athens and Sparta?

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150 miles apart

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Spartans are descendants from what?

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Dorian Invaders

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Where is the Peloppensian Peninsula?

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The southern piece of Grecce. Corinth, Sparta

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True or False: All life revolved around the army in Sparta

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True

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Why are newborn babies sometimes left on a hillside to die?

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If they aren’t healthy they can’t serve Sparta in there eyes.

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What age were Spartan boys were required to be taken from and placed in military barraks?

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Age 7

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What is the training called?

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Agoge

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How long did Spartans have to serve in the military?

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Served until they were 60

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How many kings controlled the Spartan army?

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2 kings

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What is the Athenian Peninsula called?

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The Attican peninsula

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True or False: Elected officials ran day-to-day operations

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True

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Who are Athenians descendants?

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Mycenaeans

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True or False: Athens has a strong military

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False: Athens have a strong navy

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What age did boys ave to serve in the navy?

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At age 18

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When did democracy develop in Athens?

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600-500 BCE

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What is the meaning of a city-state?

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A city that operates as an independent country

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What are the city-states in Greece?
Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Delphi, Megara
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What is Oligarchy?
Rule of a privileged few
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What is democracy?
Rule of the people
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What is tyranny?
Rule by force (Bad today, not necessarily bad then)
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True or False: They allowed women to vote
False: Just men but they couldn't be slaves or foreigners
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What is ostracizion?
When they banish somebody for 10 years
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Who are the Minoans?
The first great civilization of Ancient
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What are the Minoans known for?
Known for their grand palaces and arts
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True or False: Bulls were regarded as sacred
True
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What was a way to worship the bull?
Bull sports
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What is a frescoe?
A wall painting
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Who are the Myceneans?
Warriors, Great traders, and Sailors
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When did they reach there height of power?
1600 BCE
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What is the language known as?
Linear-B
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Where did they build there kingdoms?
On hilltops
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True or False: The Minoans conquered the Mycenaeans
False: The other way around
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True or False: The Trojan War happened and the Mycenaenas collapsed
True
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Iron vs. what?
Bronze
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Who were telling people about the Mycenaean traditions?
Bards
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What is a Bard?
A singing storyteller
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What is an Epic Poem?
A long story in the form of a poem dealing with a serious subject
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Who was Homer?
A blind poet during the dark ages and composed two famous epics the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Who was the German Archaeologist that looked through the ruins of Ancient Troy in 1870?
Heinrich Schliemann
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How long does the war with Troy last?
About 10 years
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What was the trick that was used against the Trojans after the 10 year period?
Trojan War
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Greece is the what to Europe?
The gateway
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True or False: The Greek city-states come together for the first time to overthrow the Persians
True
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Who was the historian that recorded these events fifty years later?
Herodotus
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Who did Persia conquer that eventually got Athens involved?
Ionia
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Why does the King of Persia (Darius) swear vengeance on Athens
They helped the Ionians rebel against Persia and it wasn't there fight now it is
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True or False: Darius starts sending out his army to Marathon to eventually fight the Athenians
True
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How many men did the Persian army have?
25,000 men roughly
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How many men did the Athenian navy have?
10,000 men roughly
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What was the name of the runner that delivered messages to the Spartans and eventually dropped dead later on?
Phidippides
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True or False: Athens lost a lot of men
False: They lost only 192 men while the Persians 6,400
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Why was the Battle of Marathon so signficant?
It showed that the Persians weren't impossible to beat Showed that strategy and smart weaponry can win not just strength or size And gave Greece a reason to believe in themselves
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What is the name of King Darius's son?
Xerxes
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How many Persian soldiers inavaded Greece the second time?
250,000 men roughly
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What was the name of the Athenian soldier who lead them at Thermopylae?
Themistocles
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True or False: Te battle was at a narrow mountain pass
True
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True or False: The Spartans refused to help in the second battle
False: Athenians were led by Spartan King
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True or False: There was a Greek traitor that sold out the Athenians and led them another way
True
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Why couldn't the Persian ships go through the strait?
There ships were to big
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True or False: Greeks lost the Salamis battle
False: They won
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What was the biggest Persian War?
Plataea
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How many Greeks faced the Persian army?
50,000
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How many Persians faced the Greeks?
75,000-100,000
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What stops Westward Expansion from the Greeks?
The Persian Wars
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How long does the Golden Age last for Greece?
200 years
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What is the Golden Age also called?
Classical Age Of Greece
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Who does the plays in Greece?
Sophocles
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How has the mathematician Archimedes influenced culture today?
Water screw - Archimedes screw is a machine that is used to bring water out of the ground. He also invented the formula for the surface area and volume of a sphere.
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How has the father of medicine Hippocrates, influenced culture today?
Influence in modern medicine: medical terms, diagnosis, Hippocratic Oath
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How has the father of democracy Cleisthenes, influenced culture today.
Many countries have a democracy as their government
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What does Hellenistic mean?
All things Greek
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Phalanx
body of heavily armed infantry

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