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Greece Flashcards

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What three bodies surround Greece?

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Mediterranean Sea
Ionian AE
Aegean se

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Natural disadvantages

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No major waterways
Lack of key river
Hilly, smallish
Kept it separate

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3
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Main regions

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Mainland Greece= Athens
Peloponnesus= Sparta
Crete

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Delian League

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The alliance Athens made w/ other Greek city-states (after Delos)

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5
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Where is it located?

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Southern tip of bulkan peninsula

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Trojan War

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Mycenae vs Troy
Reason: economic rivalry
Victors: Mycenaeans

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Persian War

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Greek city states vs Persia
Reason: halt the spread of the Persian empire
Victor: Greek city states

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Peloponnesian war

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Athens vs Sparta
Reason: resentment of Athenian donation in disagreement on form of government
Victor: Sparta and allies

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Socrates

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Sought truth and self-knowledge; Socratic method

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Plato

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Favor in the role of a philosopher – King; wrote The Republic

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Aristotle

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Promoted the idea of the Golden mean; wrote Politics

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Zeno

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Founder of Stoicism

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Homer

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Poet; wrote the illiad and the odyssey

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Aeschylus

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Tragic playwright; wrote the Oresteia

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Sophocles

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Tragic playwright; wrote Antigone

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Euripides

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Tragic playwright; wrote The Trojan Wars

17
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Aristophanes

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Comic playwright; wrote Lysistrata

18
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Herodotus

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Historian; encouraged research in histories; wrote The Persian Wars

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Thucydides

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Historian; promoted unbiased writing of histories

20
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Pythagoras

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Developed the formula for Pythagorean theorem

21
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Euclid

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Geometry

Wrote the elements

22
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Aristarchus

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Theorized that the solar system is heliocentric

23
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Eratosthenes

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Determined that earth is round and calculated it’s circumference

24
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Archimedes

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Lever and pulley

25
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Hippocrates

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Developed a code of ethics for medical practitioners

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