Wh ch 7 :0 Flashcards
what mountains are the Northern border of greece
Balkan mountains
The location of greece
Balkan peninsula
area of land surrounded by water at three sides
peninsula
Two seas on the east side of greece
Aegean and Black sea
Sea on the west side of greece
Ionian
What civilization began on the shores of the aegean sea
the Agean civilization
First important post-diluvian civilization in greece
Minoans
what island did the minoans begin on
crete
what people grouped lived on mycenae on the main land
Mycenaeans
what civilization in greece did the dorians conquer between 1100-800 bc
the mycenaeans
greeks of classical times
hellenens
famous war fought between the cities of mycenae and troy
Trojan War
the horse that the mycenae used to infiltrate troy
Trojan Horse
whose stories and ideas became the basis of greek religon
homer
works of writing that created the gods of greece
Iliad and oddesy
most greek gods live where
Mt. Olympus
who was the kind of the domestic gods
Zeus
powerful humans that were given special abilites that were still mortal
heroes
two main heroes
Achellies and Odysseus
godess of marriage,zeus wife
Hera
physical training and games of skill location in a polis
Gymnasium
marketplace in a polis
agora
theater of a polis
amph
hill top fortress of a polis
Acropolis
people that cant speak greek were known as what
barbarians
first olympic games
776 bc
olympiad was the what
time during the olympics
who was first conqured by cyrus the great in the grecco persian war
Ionians
what date did ionia rebell
499 B.C.
who invaded greece to avenge his father
Xerxes I
Battle in which the persians were being killed one by one through a mountain pass,but eventually found another route
Battle of Thermopylae
General who blocked the persians for a while with 300 men
Leonidas
the persians burned which city
athens
In which battle was persia defeated to end this war
battle of salamis
1st major naval battle in history
battle of salamis
The final battle of the grecco persian war
battle of plataea
rule by one
monarchy
rule by the best
aristocracy
rule by the few rich
oligarchy
power seized by one bad man
tyranny (ruler was a tyrant)
sparta was under what form of rule most of its existance
oligarchy
ruled by the people or majority of the people
democracy
govt. leaders and soldiers were in what class
Ruling class
merchants and businessmen were in what class
middle class
slaves and lower class
helots
what was spartas society consumed by
war
spartas chief accomplishment to society
pelopenessian leauge
Established harsh laws “written in blood” to instal democracy
Draco
1st tyrant of athens
Peisistratus
repented many of draco’s laws and reform
Solon
champion of the common people
Cleisthenes
set up ostracism in Athens
Cleisthenes
who brought true democracy to athens
pericles
people elect a few men to represent them in govt.
represenative democracy
ppl make the decisons in a vote
direct democracy
organization made by greeks to defend each other against persian attacks
Delian League
how many cities were apart of this league
250
The pelopenisian war was fought between who
sparta and athens
who surrendered in 404 B.C.
sparta
Kingdom that was north of greece,and heavily considered themselves greek
macedonia
Which macedonian king conquered most of greece and formed the hellinic league
Phillip II
how did phillip the 2nd die
assasinated
Phillip II had a son what was his name
Alexander the Great
Who privately tutored Alexander the Great
Aristotle
What date did alexander cross hellespont and invade persia
334 B.C.
how many cites were named alexandria
16
what was his most lasting effect on the world
the spreading of greek culture and language
what battle did the 4 head generals fight in for alexander’s kingdom
Battle of Ipsus
time during 700-338 in greece
Hellenic age
said “man is the measure of all things”
Protagoras
a well-educated slave who was charged with the boy’s manners and morals
pedagogue
Greek temple that was made for Athena
Parthenon
The father of history
herodotus
accredited for introducing fables
aesop
a brief story used to teach a moral
fable
Two of the greatest tragedies
Oedipus Rex and Antigone
wrote the best tragedies
Sophocles
discovered important mathematical concepts still used in geometry
Pythagoras
developed a theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms.
democritus
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
a high code of ethics still taken by many medical school graduates today
Hippocratic Oath
is known for the Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates
those that believe that there are no absolute truths
relativists
ultimate foundational truths
absolutes
who was dissatisfied with the sophists, began a search for absolutes
socrates
attempted to find an explanation for the obvious order, design, and purpose in the universe.
plato
mastered every field of learning known to the Greeks and concluded that the order of the universe must have come from God
aristotle
The period of nearly 300 years from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Roman conquest of Egypt, the last remnant of Alexander’s empire, in 30 B.C. is known as what
Hellenistic Age.
founded the school of philosophy known as Stoicism
zeno
taught that the highest good of man was to live a life of calm pleasure regulated by morality, temperance, serenity, and personal development
Epicurus
followers of Epicurus
Epicureans
an astronomer, proposed that the earth revolves around the sun, a theory not to be espoused by other scientists until centuries later
Aristarchus of Samos
systematized the theorems of plane geometry
Euclid
the greatest astronomical observer of antiquity, formulated the basic principles of trigonometry
Hipparchus
made important contributions to mathematics, engineering, and physics
Archime
calculated the circumference of the earth with astounding accuracy
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
a Greek geographer and historian who lived at the end of the Hellenistic Age
Strabo
language of cultured people throughout the Mediterranean world from 300 B.C. until the A.D. 400s,
koine
Aristotles student
alexander
who wrote the republic
plato
