WH - Ancient Greece Flashcards
Minoan
inhabitants of Crete.
Mycenaean
art and culture of greece; living in greek area.
Shrine
place for worship.
Fresco
a colorful watercolor painting on plaster.
City State
independent state.
Acropolis
fortified part of city-state; high city.
Trojan War
a war fought over a struggle for control of a strait.
Homer
a blind greek poet who wrote epic’s.
Iron Age
discovered iron; greeks couldnt fight persians with bronze.
Polis
city.
Marathon
battle in the second persian war.
Peloponnesian War
civil war between sparta and athens.
Anarchy
chaos caused by an absence of government.
Aristocracy
rule by land holding elites/nobles.
Oligarchy
rule by wealthy business owners.
Direct Democracy
rule by all citizens.
Representative Democracy
rule by elected citizens.
Siege
surround the city to trap them in.
Delian League
an alliance lead by pericles; used to defend from persia.
Pericles
military general; led athens in its war against sparta.
Socrates
first moral greek philosopher.
Phalanx
attack formation.
Plato
philosopher; wrote about socrates’s teachings.
Aristotle
philosopher; founded the peripatetic school.
Alexander
king of macedon; let conquests to rule the world.
Hellenism
to unite the east and west into a new empire.
Empire
group of states under a single ruler.
Cultural Diffusion
spreading beliefs to other ares.
Parthenon
temple in honor of athena.
Olympic Games
created in honor of zeus.
