Hellenic History Cards Set I Flashcards
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With what event in 776 does Hellenic History officially begin?
First Olympics
In what year does Hellenic History officially begin with the onset of the Olympics?
776
When a colony was founded, what leader of the colonists would take fire from the hearth of the mother-city to start a fire in the new city’s hearth?
Oecist
What was technically the first Greek colony, which did not last long?
Pithecusae
What Greek Italian colony (rather than Pithecusae) is more regularly known as the first colony?
Cumae
In 734, Corinth founded what colony in Sicily, which would later become the largest city in the Greek world?
Syracuse
In 707, the Spartans founded their one and only colony where?
Taras (Tarentum)
What city is also called Lacedaemon?
Sparta
Who developed the Spartan constitution in 885?
Lycurgus
With what neighboring city did Sparta wage war in the late eighth century?
Messenia
What legendary Messenian hero is said to have sacrificed his daughter to save his city against Sparta to no avail?
Aristodemus
What people, despite outnumbering the Spartans 10:1, were subjugated and forced to become helots to Sparta in the late eighth century?
Messenians
What Greek city on the Peloponnesus famously never had a tyrant?
Sparta
What city was ruled by 2 kings at a time who each had power over each other, much like Rome’s consular system?
Sparta
What group of 5 men, 2 of whom had to accompany kings on campaign, were chosen out of the Spartan Gerousia?
Ephors
What name was given to the Spartan counsel of 30 noblemen, including the kings not over the age of 60?
Gerousia
What name is given to the assembly of all Spartan citizens, members of which could not vote until they were 30?
Apella
At what age were Spartan boys taken from their mothers and put in a group camp to prepare for military service?
7
Participation in athletics, ownership of property, management of husband’s lands, etc. were among the rights of women held in what Greek city?
Sparta
Spartan women had all the rights of men except for what two rights?
To vote and hold office
After learning the location of the bones of Orestes, whom did Sparta invade and conquer?
Tegea
After defeating Argos, Sparta formed and headed what league?
Peloponnesian League
What name is given to rule without democratic representation?
Tyranny
What Dorian city, found just outside the Peloponnesus, was ruled after the fall of its monarchy by the Bacchiads, an aristocratic family?
Corinth