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Unit 3 Flashcards

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Mycenaen

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people who settled on Greek mainland

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Trojan War

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A war fought around 1200 BC in which an army led by Mycenaen kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia

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Dorians

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A group of people who moved into the war torn countryside

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Homer

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A blind man who made herioic epics

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Epics

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Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds c. 750-700 BC

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Myths

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A set of stories about their gods

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Polis

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City-state

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Acropolis

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A marketplace/ fortified hilltop

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Helots

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Peasants who are forced to stay on land they worked

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Phalanx

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A fearsome formation that became most powerful fighting fence in the ancient world

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Persian Wars

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Between Greek and Persian Empire

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Direct Democracy

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Where the citizens rule directly, and not through representatives

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Classical art

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The values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion

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Tragedy

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A serious drama about common themes

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Comedy

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Scenes filled with slapstick situations/ crude humor

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Pelopponnesian War

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A war between Athens and Sparta 431-421

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Philosophers

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Greek thinkers meaning “Lovers of wisdom”

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Socrates

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A philosopher who believed absolute standards of justice did exist

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Plato

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A philosopher who wrote the Republic where it showed the ideal life

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Aristotle

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A philosopher who questioned the nature of the world, human belief, thought, and knowledge

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Philip II

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The king of Macedonia who dreamed of contoling Greece and seizing Persia

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Macedonia

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The kingdom located north of Greece it had rough terrain and a cold climate

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Alexander the Great

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Boy who killed philip and seized the throne

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Darius III

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King of Persia at the time of Alexander

25
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Hellenistic

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The blendingof Egyptian, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures

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Euclid

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A geometry text made by Erathosthenes and Aristarchus

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Archimedes

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A Hellenistic scientist of Syracruse who studied at Alexandria; accurately estimated the value of pi

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Colossus of Rhodes

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A bronze statue that stood more than100 ft high one of the 7 wonders of the world at the time. toppled 225 BC

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