The Greek Golden Age CH 3 Flashcards

1
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Outraged the Athenian assembly who rejected it ____________.

A

This act of “submission”

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The Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the ______________________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.

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Battle of Marathon

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3
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Themistocles

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used silver from a publicly owned mine to expand the navy

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4
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Tasked with avenging his father’s lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks

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Xerxes I

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5
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31 Greek city states formed a coalition call the ______________ to resist the Persian Invasion

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Hellenic League

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6
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The coalition to be led by the ________________________

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Spartan King Leonidas l

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7
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Reasons for the Greek Victory:

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  • Greeks had better and more farsighted commanders
  • Better armor and warships, that were more effective in close combat.
  • The military Alliance that united against a common enemy to preserve their political freedom (31)
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Controlled by Athens, and consisted of some 300 city-states

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Delian League

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9
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Controlled by Sparta and consisted of over 50 city states

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Peloponnesian League

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10
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Slave about ___________ of Athenian society

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40%

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11
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The increase in Athenian naval power thus

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promoted the development of a wider democracy at home but it undermined the democracy of the Delian League.

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12
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Radical Democracy introduced reforms that challenged traditional understandings of society

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expanded participation to the masses yet reserve select leadership to the elite

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13
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Pericles, citizenship law

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restricted Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both born in Athens.
- law increases the status and desirability of Athenian women

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14
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A covered walkway or portico, offering a protecting atmosphere usually located on the edge of the

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Stoa

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15
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Agora

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the central market square

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16
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Competitive intellectuals and traveling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education that most wealthy young male citizens received.

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The Sophists

17
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Sophists taught
- was one of the most attractive

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above all rhetoric

18
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The father of relativism is

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Protagoras

19
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Socrates was the first Philosopher to make _____________________ the main focus of his teachings

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Ethics and Morality

20
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Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning

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Socratic Method

21
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Father of Western Medicine

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Hippocrates

22
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Considered the Father of History

23
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Violent arrogance that, according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess

24
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Causes of the war:

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  • The Spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressives with which Athens dominated the Delian League.
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The Athenian Strategy:
- win a war of attrition using their superior wealth of resources - avoid the superior Spartan land army.
26
Upon Pericles death an Athenian Statesman ________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative defensive strategy and began an aggressive strategy to the war.
Cleon
27
Following the destruction of the Sicilian Expedition
- Much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens. - The Syracusans send their fleet to the Peloponnesians - The Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships.
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Spartans spare Athens, tear down the long walls and install an Oligarchy of Athenian citizens called
The Thirty- Tyrants
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The new regine determined to settle the internal strife (desire for revenge) that threatening to tear Athens apart issued first know ______________ in western history
Amnesty
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After the war Athens found itself right back where it started in 500 B.C.
Fearful of Sparta and worried whether the world's first democracy could survive.