Wh ch 7 :0 Flashcards
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what mountains are the Northern border of greece
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Balkan mountains
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The location of greece
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Balkan peninsula
3
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area of land surrounded by water at three sides
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peninsula
4
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Two seas on the east side of greece
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Aegean and Black sea
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Sea on the west side of greece
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Ionian
6
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What civilization began on the shores of the aegean sea
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the Agean civilization
7
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First important post-diluvian civilization in greece
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Minoans
8
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what island did the minoans begin on
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crete
9
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what people grouped lived on mycenae on the main land
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Mycenaeans
10
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what civilization in greece did the dorians conquer between 1100-800 bc
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the mycenaeans
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greeks of classical times
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hellenens
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famous war fought between the cities of mycenae and troy
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Trojan War
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the horse that the mycenae used to infiltrate troy
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Trojan Horse
14
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whose stories and ideas became the basis of greek religon
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homer
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works of writing that created the gods of greece
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Iliad and oddesy
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most greek gods live where
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Mt. Olympus
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who was the kind of the domestic gods
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Zeus
18
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powerful humans that were given special abilites that were still mortal
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heroes
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two main heroes
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Achellies and Odysseus
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godess of marriage,zeus wife
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Hera
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physical training and games of skill location in a polis
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Gymnasium
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marketplace in a polis
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agora
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theater of a polis
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amph
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hill top fortress of a polis
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Acropolis
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people that cant speak greek were known as what
barbarians
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first olympic games
776 bc
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olympiad was the what
time during the olympics
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who was first conqured by cyrus the great in the grecco persian war
Ionians
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what date did ionia rebell
499 B.C.
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who invaded greece to avenge his father
Xerxes I
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Battle in which the persians were being killed one by one through a mountain pass,but eventually found another route
Battle of Thermopylae
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General who blocked the persians for a while with 300 men
Leonidas
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the persians burned which city
athens
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In which battle was persia defeated to end this war
battle of salamis
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1st major naval battle in history
battle of salamis
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The final battle of the grecco persian war
battle of plataea
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rule by one
monarchy
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rule by the best
aristocracy
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rule by the few rich
oligarchy
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power seized by one bad man
tyranny (ruler was a tyrant)
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sparta was under what form of rule most of its existance
oligarchy
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ruled by the people or majority of the people
democracy
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govt. leaders and soldiers were in what class
Ruling class
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merchants and businessmen were in what class
middle class
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slaves and lower class
helots
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what was spartas society consumed by
war
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spartas chief accomplishment to society
pelopenessian leauge
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Established harsh laws "written in blood" to instal democracy
Draco
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1st tyrant of athens
Peisistratus
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repented many of draco's laws and reform
Solon
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champion of the common people
Cleisthenes
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set up ostracism in Athens
Cleisthenes
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who brought true democracy to athens
pericles
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people elect a few men to represent them in govt.
represenative democracy
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ppl make the decisons in a vote
direct democracy
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organization made by greeks to defend each other against persian attacks
Delian League
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how many cities were apart of this league
250
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The pelopenisian war was fought between who
sparta and athens
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who surrendered in 404 B.C.
sparta
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Kingdom that was north of greece,and heavily considered themselves greek
macedonia
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Which macedonian king conquered most of greece and formed the hellinic league
Phillip II
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how did phillip the 2nd die
assasinated
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Phillip II had a son what was his name
Alexander the Great
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Who privately tutored Alexander the Great
Aristotle
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What date did alexander cross hellespont and invade persia
334 B.C.
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how many cites were named alexandria
16
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what was his most lasting effect on the world
the spreading of greek culture and language
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what battle did the 4 head generals fight in for alexander's kingdom
Battle of Ipsus
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time during 700-338 in greece
Hellenic age
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said "man is the measure of all things"
Protagoras
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a well-educated slave who was charged with the boy’s manners and morals
pedagogue
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Greek temple that was made for Athena
Parthenon
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The father of history
herodotus
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accredited for introducing fables
aesop
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a brief story used to teach a moral
fable
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Two of the greatest tragedies
Oedipus Rex and Antigone
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wrote the best tragedies
Sophocles
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discovered important mathematical concepts still used in geometry
Pythagoras
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developed a theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms.
democritus
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Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
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a high code of ethics still taken by many medical school graduates today
Hippocratic Oath
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is known for the Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates
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those that believe that there are no absolute truths
relativists
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ultimate foundational truths
absolutes
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who was dissatisfied with the sophists, began a search for absolutes
socrates
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attempted to find an explanation for the obvious order, design, and purpose in the universe.
plato
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mastered every field of learning known to the Greeks and concluded that the order of the universe must have come from God
aristotle
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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.
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founded the school of philosophy known as Stoicism
zeno
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taught that the highest good of man was to live a life of calm pleasure regulated by morality, temperance, serenity, and personal development
Epicurus
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followers of Epicurus
Epicureans
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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
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systematized the theorems of plane geometry
Euclid
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the greatest astronomical observer of antiquity, formulated the basic principles of trigonometry
Hipparchus
94
made important contributions to mathematics, engineering, and physics
Archime
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calculated the circumference of the earth with astounding accuracy
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
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a Greek geographer and historian who lived at the end of the Hellenistic Age
Strabo
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language of cultured people throughout the Mediterranean world from 300 B.C. until the A.D. 400s,
koine
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Aristotles student
alexander
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who wrote the republic
plato
