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Quiz 2 Vocab Words Flashcards

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Polis

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City-State, independent

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Athens

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Most impactful city of Ancient Greece

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Sparta

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Weird cousin of Ancient Greece; society formed around military readiness

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Persian Wars

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Athens VS. Persian Empire

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Peloponnesian War

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Sparta v. Athens

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Theatre

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started in classical Greece, wya of expression and political commentary through comedies and dramas

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Socrates

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“Father of western philosophy”

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Plato

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studied under Socrates during classical Greek philosophy

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Sophists

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Teacher in Ancient Greece, Socrates

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Democracy

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Started in classical Greece

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Tyrant

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Ancient Greece’s biggest fear in government

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Helot

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Slaves of Spartans

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Cleisthenes

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Father of Athenian democracy

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Lycurgus

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Spartan lawmaker

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Solon

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Part of the beginning of democracy in Athens

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Hoplite

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Battle boys of ancient Greeks armed with spears and shields

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Phalanx

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Greek battle formation

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Hellenism

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Everything goes Greek! Cultural diffusion between non Greek and Greek world

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Stoicism

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Pantheistic, logic, self control

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Epicureanism

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Pleasure=highest good , opponent to stoicism

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Cosmopolitanism

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Every single person deserves to/can be a citizen; “a citizen of the world”

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Euclid

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{VOID}

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Euclid

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One of the few mathematicians who “got it right”; used his same theories/textbook for thousands of years ; “father of geometry”

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Eratosthenes

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Calculated the circumference of the earth ; Hellenistic astronomer

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Archimedes

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Important Hellenistic mathematician ; large number language and screw

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Philip II

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Alexander’s dad who was also pretty great

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Alexander the Great

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Badass leader/ ruler who conquered a lot of land, including Persian empire, started library of Alexandria

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Hellenistic Kingdoms

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Alexander the Great’s empire expanding across the Middle East

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Science

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Relied less on mythological/religious explanations for cosmologies/world phenomena

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Philosophy

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The love of knowledge; big during the classical and Hellenistic age of Greece

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Republic

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No more kings!

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Twelve Tables

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Written Law of Rome

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Romulus

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Killed Remus, built city of Rome (Roman myth)

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Remus

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One of the brothers that founded Rome, killed by Romulus

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Punic Wars

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Carthage Vs. Rome

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Hannibal

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Beat the Romans once; he’s “fine” (Heineman)
Carthaginian military leader, sneak attacked Rome

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Consuls

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At the top of the Roman republic; limited tenure and collegiality

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