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Greece Flashcards

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Dorians

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Move into Greece after the Mycenaeans civilization collapses and they are dumb, can’t read and write

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Impact of Greece’s geography (3)

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  • sea: Lack of resources encourage sea travel and trade
  • lack of fertile land leads to small population
  • mountains: polis because Greece is not unified
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Homer

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Blind of storyteller

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Epics

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Narrative poem about heroic deeds

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acropolis

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A Fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city

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phalanx

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Feared by all, formation of soldiers with spears, shields

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oligarchy

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Rule by small group of powerful merchants and artisans

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Pericles and his 3 goals

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  1. Pays politicians-to strengthen democracy
  2. Strengthen the Athens empire- makes navy bigger
  3. Glorifying Athens
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Peloponnesian War (Athens vs. Sparta)

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Lasting from 431 to 404 B.C., in which Athens and it’s allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies

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Polis

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City-state

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philosopher

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Thinkers, “lovers of wisdom”

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Socrates

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“gad fly” believes in questioning, self-examination number of values, and was convicted of corrupting young people

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato, uses rules of logic for argument, tutors 13-year-old Prince Alexander the great

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Alexander the Great

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Smart, the iliad under his pillow, his focus was more about Conquering and not governing

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Hellenistic world

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Greek blended with Egyptian, Persian, Indian

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Alexandria

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Egyptian city becomes center of Hellenistic civilization

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Athens (characteristics, gov, citizen)

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Characteristics: Education, creative, value individual, open mind
Gov: democracy
Citizen: only native-born, property-owning males are citizens

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Sparta

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Spartan value: duty, strength, not individuality, discipline over freedom
Also has The most powerful army in Greece

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Persian War (Greece vs. Persia)

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The series of wars in the 5th century BC, in which Greek city states battled the Persian empire. (Athens and Sparta worked together defeating the Persian realizing they were more powerful when they are one)

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Mycenae

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An Indo-European person settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 BC

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Crete

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a large island on the southern edge of the Aegean Sea (Minoans lived on)

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Hoplites

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Hoplites are The foot soldiers of this army stood side by side, each holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other

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Tyranny

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A nation under cruel and oppressive government

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Darius

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King of Persia, Alexander the great defeats Persia again and forces him to flee

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Xerxes

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Darius the Great’s son and successor, assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens (300 Spartans hold them for three days)

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Phidipides

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Builds the Parthenon- a large temple to honor goddess Athena and within the temple he crafts a 30 foot statue of Athena

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Classical art

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Values Harmony, order, balance, proportion, beauty

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Marathon

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the Persian army attacks Athens, is defeated at marathon in 490 BC and runner Pheidippides races 26 miles to Athens to announce Greek victory and dies.

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Delian league

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New self-confidence in Greece due to victory (Persian war) causes Athens to emerge as leader of Delian league and controls the league by using force against opponents

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The Parthenon

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A large temple to honor goddess Athena

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Zeus

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Ruler of gods

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Mount Olympus

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Where Zeus and his wife Hera live

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Artè

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Excellence

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Allegory of the cave (summary)

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All these prisoners in a cave and sees shadows thinking they are true and man comes out and can’t see and goes and sees that there is a big world out there and comes and frees the other prisoners and they can’t see and are in pain so they murder him

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What do the shadows represent?

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The lies, the untruth and what is ppl accept

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What does the sun represent

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Truth, wisdom, knowledge

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