World History 1b Flashcards
what was Polis
“city state”
what is a monarchy
ruled by one
what is a oligarchy
the rule of few
what is a tyranny
controled the govermet by fource
what is a denocracy
ruled by the people
what were the helots
dorians slaves
what was the peloponnesian league
city states organized it
what is Hellenic
it decribes greek culture
hellenic culture mixed wit greek culture called…
hellenistic “like thr greeks”
the study of human thought an culture is…
humanities
what are philosophers
“lovers of wisdom”
what is a anarchy
the breakdown of goverment and order
who are the dorians
they came from the north and conquered the main mycenaean fortresses
who are llaid and odyssey
they were poems
who was homer
a greek poet
who was zeus
“kind of gods and man” was the ruler of mount olymus
who was solon
the leader of the athens
what was the delian league
the athens formed a alliance with the greek city states to protect themselves from persians attacks
what is the pericles
this period of greek history is called “the ae of Pericles”
What is the peloponnesian war
a devastating civil war pitting greek against greek
who way Phillip the 2th/what sis he do
he united Macedoni under his rule and extened his kingdom into Greece
who was Alexdander the great/ what did he do
he was Phillip the 2 son
what is the Socrates
he was a teacher
who was Plato
the must famous pupil of socrates
who was aristotle
he was the last of 3 greek philosophers he was athens like the other two but came to Athens from Greece
what was Thales known for
the father of philosophy
what did Epicurus believe
he thought that happiness and pleasure you could get if there was no pain or fear
what did Zeno believe
the affairs of men and the world were ordered by fixed laws
it is litter wonder the romans would latter be called Mediterranena blank… that mean our sea
Mare Nostrum
the welthy landholders and noble families aristoratic class
patricians
inferior class called the…
plebeians
the kings authority was called
imperium
a small bundle of rods which enclosed as axe is called
fasces
509bc they overthrew the king. in the place of the monarchy they got a new fom called
the republic
two elected blank replaced the king
culsel
first concessions the right to have their own assembly and elected officials
plebiscites
i forbid
veto
