Unit 3 Flashcards
Mycenaen
people who settled on Greek mainland
Trojan War
A war fought around 1200 BC in which an army led by Mycenaen kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia
Dorians
A group of people who moved into the war torn countryside
Homer
A blind man who made herioic epics
Epics
Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds c. 750-700 BC
Myths
A set of stories about their gods
Polis
City-state
Acropolis
A marketplace/ fortified hilltop
Helots
Peasants who are forced to stay on land they worked
Phalanx
A fearsome formation that became most powerful fighting fence in the ancient world
Persian Wars
Between Greek and Persian Empire
Direct Democracy
Where the citizens rule directly, and not through representatives
Classical art
The values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion
Tragedy
A serious drama about common themes
Comedy
Scenes filled with slapstick situations/ crude humor
Pelopponnesian War
A war between Athens and Sparta 431-421
Philosophers
Greek thinkers meaning “Lovers of wisdom”
Socrates
A philosopher who believed absolute standards of justice did exist
Plato
A philosopher who wrote the Republic where it showed the ideal life
Aristotle
A philosopher who questioned the nature of the world, human belief, thought, and knowledge
Philip II
The king of Macedonia who dreamed of contoling Greece and seizing Persia
Macedonia
The kingdom located north of Greece it had rough terrain and a cold climate
Alexander the Great
Boy who killed philip and seized the throne
Darius III
King of Persia at the time of Alexander
Hellenistic
The blendingof Egyptian, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures
Euclid
A geometry text made by Erathosthenes and Aristarchus
Archimedes
A Hellenistic scientist of Syracruse who studied at Alexandria; accurately estimated the value of pi
Colossus of Rhodes
A bronze statue that stood more than100 ft high one of the 7 wonders of the world at the time. toppled 225 BC
