Midterm 1 Flashcards
Sparta
- The most powerful city in the Greek world
- Patriarchal and polytheistic
- Economy based on agriculture
Spartan Mirage
Sources tainted by acceptance of an idealized image of Sparta
Sea Travel
- Easiest method of travel
- Tied Breeks to Near East and Egypt
- Useful for trade
Commonly traded items (Greek did not have)
- Raw materials: Bronze, silver and lead
Mediterranean climate
Long, hot dry summers - short, cool, moist winters(when the rain falls)
“Gaia”
“Mother Earth”
Mediterranean Triad
Grain(bread), Grapes(wine), Olives(oil)
Two largest domesticated animals
Horses, cattle
Horses
Prime markers of high rank: not only very expensive to maintain but useful only for riding and pulling light chariots
Unifying force within greek city-states
The citizen-farmers’ devotion to their small agricultural plain and willingness to die defending their “ancestral earth”
Primary dis-unifying force within greek city-states
Perpetual tension between those with much land and those with little to none
“Polis”
“City State”
The mountains
-Took up farm land(creates food anxiety, starvation, war)
- Create a lack of water as clouds get stuck
Natural resources by mountains
Silver, limestone, lumber
“Aigis”
“storm”
Importance of sea travel
Exchange of ideas, technologies, alphabet, philosophy, religion, intermarriage
Hellespont
Narrow body of water in between northern Turkey and north eastern Greece
