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Topic 5 Greece Flashcards

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Sea that connected and unified all the parts of Greece

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Aegean

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Was home to a brilliant early civilization and first European civilization

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Crete

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What we call the people who built Crete

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Minoans

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Vast palace built by the Minoans. Housed rooms for Royal family

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Knossos

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Areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses

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Shrines

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Paintings in watercolor done on wet plaster

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Frescos

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First identified Greeks

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Mycenaeans

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Took place around 1250. It’s origins were in economic rivalry

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Trojan War

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Narrow water passages that connected the Mediterranean and black seas

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Straits

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Blind poet who wandered from village to village singing of heroic deeds. Writing focused on honor, courage, faithfulness, and eloquence

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Homer

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Chief source of information about the Trojan War. Major theme and first word is anger

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The Iliad

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Tells us of the many struggles of the Greek hero Odysseus on his return home to his faithful wife. First word is man

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The odyssey

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Extends southward into the eastern Mediterranean Sea

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Balkan Peninsula

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A unique version of the city state built on two levels

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Polis

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High city that stood on a hilltop, had great marble temples dedicated to different gods and goddesses

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Acropolis

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Free residents

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Citizens

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Government in which a hereditary ruler, such as a king or queen, exercises central power

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Monarchy

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Rule by a landholding elite

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Aristocracy

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Power is in the hands of a small wealthy elite

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Oligarchy

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Method of fighting where a massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers

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Phalanx

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City state built by Spartans in the southern part of Greece

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Sparta

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Located in Attica, north of Peloponnesus

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Athens

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Government by the people

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Democracy

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People who gained power by force

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Tyrants

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Reformer who broadened the role of ordinary citizens in a government. Set up council of 500

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Cleisthenes

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Lawmaking body, that debated laws before deciding to approve or reject them

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Legislature

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Where the gods lived in northern Greece

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Mount Olympus

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Darius’s son. Wanted revenge on Greece

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Xerxes

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Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to one another’s defense

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Alliance

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An alliance of Greek city states organized by Athens

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Delian League

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Able statesmen who under his rule the Athens economy thrived and the government became more democratic

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Pericles

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Period from 460 bc to 429 bc. When Pericles ruled

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Age of Pericles

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Fixed salary

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Stipend

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System of government in which citizens take part directly in the day to day affairs of government

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Direct Democracy

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Historian who lived in the age of Pericles. Who recorded a speech given by Pericles at the funeral of Athenians slain in battle

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Thucydides

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Group of people who have the authority to make a decision in a legal case

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Jury

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Process where Athenian citizens could vote to banish or send away a public figure whom they saw as a threat to their democracy

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Ostracism

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Formed by Sparta and the other enemies of Athens to counter the Delian league

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Peloponnesian league

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27 year war between Athens and Sparta

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Peloponnesian war

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Kingdom to the nort of Greece

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Macedonia

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Thinkers that challenged the belief that events were caused by the whims of god, instead used observation and reason to find causes for events. Means lovers of wisdom

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Philosophers

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Rational thinking

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Logic

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The art of skillful speaking

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Rhetoric

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An Athenian stonemason and philosopher

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Socrates

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Student of Socrates. Most of what we know about Socrates comes from him

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Plato

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Proces where a series of questions is posed to a student or passing citizen and challenge them to examine the implications of their answers

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Socratic Method

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Book written by Plato. In it he described his vision of an ideal state

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The Republic

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Plato’s most famous student who developed his own ideas about government

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Aristotle

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Moderate course between the extremes

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Golden Mean

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Temple dedicated to the goddess of Athena

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Parthenon

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Wrote oresteia which showed a powerful family torn apart by betrayal, murder, and revenge

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Aeschylus

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Wrote antigone. Explored what happens when an individuals moral duty conflicts with the laws of state

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Sophocles

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Wrote plays that suggested people, not the gods were the cause of human misfortune and suffering

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Euripides

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Play that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster

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Tragedies

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Humorous play that mocked people or customs

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Comedies

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Often called “Father of History” in western world because he went beyond listing names of rulers or the retelling of ancient legends

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Herodotus

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Historian who wrote about the Peloponnesus war

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Thucydides

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Lived in Thebes as a youth. Had come to admire Greek culture. Hired Aristotle as a tutor for his so Alexander

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Phillip II

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Murder of a public figure

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Assasination

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Absorbed

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Assimilated

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Culture blended of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian influences

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Hellenistic Civilization

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City that stood at the heart of the Hellenistic World

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Alexandria

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School of philosophy founded by Zeno who urged people to avoid desires and disappointments by accepting calmly whatever life brought

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Stoicism

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Studied in Egypt and Babylon and derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle

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Pythagoras

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Wrote a book called the elements

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Euclid

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Book that brilliantly compiled earlier works and became the basis for modern geometry

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The elements

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Sun centered

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Heliocentric

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Most famous Hellenistic scientist who applied principles of physics to make practical inventions

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Archimedes

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Greek physician that studied the causes of illnesses and looked for cures

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Hippocrates

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