Unit 7 ancient Greece Flashcards
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It refers to both the Ancient Greek mainland and the surrounding islands in the Aegean Sea.
Aegean World:
City-states
Polis:
central market/meeting place
agora:
used for protection and was a center for religion and government
Acropolis:
an ancient festival held every fourth year and made up of contests of sports, music, and literature with the victor’s prize a crown of wild olive.
Olympics
Each citizen votes directly on all laws. (The first democracy invented by the Athenians).
Direct democracy -
Citizens vote for representatives who then vote on the laws.
Representative Democracy
He was an Athenian scholar, teacher and a philosopher who encouraged questioning of traditional values, art, gov., etc.
Socrates
Socrates’ student
plato
Emperor who had one of the largest empires in the ancient world; known for spreading Greek culture across continents
Alexander the Great