The Greek Golden Age CH 3 Flashcards
Outraged the Athenian assembly who rejected it ____________.
This act of “submission”
The Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the ______________________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.
Battle of Marathon
Themistocles
used silver from a publicly owned mine to expand the navy
Tasked with avenging his father’s lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks
Xerxes I
31 Greek city states formed a coalition call the ______________ to resist the Persian Invasion
Hellenic League
The coalition to be led by the ________________________
Spartan King Leonidas l
Reasons for the Greek Victory:
- 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)
Controlled by Athens, and consisted of some 300 city-states
Delian League
Controlled by Sparta and consisted of over 50 city states
Peloponnesian League
Slave about ___________ of Athenian society
40%
The increase in Athenian naval power thus
promoted the development of a wider democracy at home but it undermined the democracy of the Delian League.
Radical Democracy introduced reforms that challenged traditional understandings of society
expanded participation to the masses yet reserve select leadership to the elite
Pericles, citizenship law
restricted Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both born in Athens.
- law increases the status and desirability of Athenian women
A covered walkway or portico, offering a protecting atmosphere usually located on the edge of the
Stoa
Agora
the central market square
Competitive intellectuals and traveling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education that most wealthy young male citizens received.
The Sophists
Sophists taught
- was one of the most attractive
above all rhetoric
The father of relativism is
Protagoras
Socrates was the first Philosopher to make _____________________ the main focus of his teachings
Ethics and Morality
Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning
Socratic Method
Father of Western Medicine
Hippocrates
Considered the Father of History
Herodotus
Violent arrogance that, according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess
Huburis
Causes of the war:
- The Spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressives with which Athens dominated the Delian League.
The Athenian Strategy:
- win a war of attrition using their superior wealth of resources
- avoid the superior Spartan land army.
Upon Pericles death an Athenian Statesman ________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative defensive strategy and began an aggressive strategy to the war.
Cleon
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.
Spartans spare Athens, tear down the long walls and install an Oligarchy of Athenian citizens called
The Thirty- Tyrants
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
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.
