Historical Overview of ancient Greece Flashcards
What is ancient Greece located on?
A peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea.
What are the two seas surrounding Greece?
The Aegean Sea, to the east, and the Ionian Sea, to the west.
What is another name for southern Greece?
Peloponnesus.
Why is Greece unsuitable for farming?
The climate and land were poor.
When did the Mycenaeans settle in Peloponnesus?
Around 2000 BCE.
Who attacked the city of Troy, and when did they do it?
The Mycenaeans attacked Troy in 1194 BCE.
What was the Iliad about?
The deeds of the heroes in the Trojan War.
What is the Odyssey about?
The adventures of a Trojan War hero as he traveled home to Greece after the war.
What two geographical features isolated the people of Greece from each other and caused them to form city-states?
Mountains and valleys.
Upper Class in Athens
Free male land-holding citizens born in Athens.
Middle Class in Athens
Foreign-born merchants.
Lower Class in Athens
Slaves.
Why were women not considered citizens in Athens?
Because they could not take part in the government.
Who reigned during the Athenian Golden Age?
Pericles.
What was the Golden Age of Athens?
A 30-year-long period of growth in the arts & sciences.
Upper Class in Sparta
Adult free male citizens.
Middle Class in Sparta
Foreign-born merchants.
Lower Class in Sparta
Slaves called Helots who had been taken as prisoners after wars.
True or False: Women in Sparta could own land, but they weren’t considered citizens.
True
When did the Persian Wars take place?
From 500 to 480 BCE
When did the Peloponnesian Wars take place?
From 429 to 404 BCE
What did Alexander the Great accomplish?
He ruled all of the known world until his death.
When did the Hellenistic Age start?
In 323 BCE, when Alexander the Great died.
What was the Hellenistic Age?
A time when Greek cultured combined with the cultures of Eastern lands conquered by Alexander.
What happened in 31 BCE?
The Romans conquered Greece.
