Test 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
System of city-states in Ancient Greece
Polis system
Prominent and major urban center city-state in ancient Greece
Athens
Greek city-state in the Peloponnese that focused on military power
Sparta
Made a series of reforms in Athens to lay the groundwork for their constitution and a democracy, lawgiver of Athens
Solon
Lawgiver and founder? of Sparta
Lycurgus
Soldiers in ancient Greece armed with spears and shields, only the rich fought
Hoplite
Military education and training program in Sparta
Agoge
Philosopher, student of Socrates, mathematician, founder of the Academy in Athens, Aristotle was his student
Plato
Philosopher, student of Plato, tutored Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Lived 518-465 BCE, King of Persia 486-465, Son of Darius, Wanted to take over Athens in honor of his father
Xerxes
Mirst major conflict in the Greco-Persian war, Athenians win, Spartans did not show up, fought at Marathon
Battle of Marathon
King of Sparta, lead Spartan army during second Greco-Persian war, died at Thermopylae
Leonidas
Persians had to pass through a mountain pass to reach Athens, Spartans defended pass for three days, Persians won after coming behind the Spartans by taking a mountain goat path around
Battle of Thermopylae
Naval battle after Xerxes demolished Athens, September 480BCE, Greeks tried to surrender through letter, Xerxes attacked, Greek ships were better, fought in a bottleneck, Greeks win
Battle of Salamis
Battle where Athenians and Spartans are fully united, largest Greek battle to date, Greeks win and push Persians out of Greece, last battle of the Greco-Persian wars
Battle of Plataea
Spartan alliance created in the Peloponnese
Peloponnesian League
Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War, created peace treaty with Sparta, led the invasion of Sicily and the siege of Syracuse,
Nicias
Had idea to invade Sicily, won cities by siege
Alcibiades
Athenians laid siege on Syracuse, a powerful state in Sicily and lost
Siege of Syracuse
Last major battle of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta completely destroyed the Athenian navy, Sparta then takes over Athens
Battle of Aegospotami
Part of the ancient Greek kingdom that influenced Philip II
Macedon
Kind of Macedon, assassinated in 336 BCE, took much influence from Greece
Philip II
Alexander builds a causeway to conquer this place and spends a year wearing them out
Siege of Tyre
Battle where Alexander beats Darius III and takes control of Asia Minor, Alexander uses cavalry and infantry to win
Battle of Issus
Darius has cavalry but not infantry, Alexander wins, Darius is killed by his own general after three defeats as king of Persia
Battle of Gaugamela
Period of blending of many arts and cultures by Alexander, namely Egyptian, Greek, and Persian
Hellenism
The belief that there is knowledge beyond what a person knows, a person should seek that hidden knowledge, product of neo-platoism, things are dulaistic, mind/spirit is good, flesh is evil, one must transcend their flesh to receive knowledge, universe harmonized through music, Christianity?
Gnosticism
Mythical founders of Rome, orphans raised by wolves
Romulus and Remus