World History Flashcards
Polis
Greek city-states
Athens and Sparta
Two traditional enemy city states
Hatshepsut
The famous female pharaoh
Legacy a of Ancient Greek
Philosophy, astronomy, architecture, democracy
Aristocracy
A form of government ruled by the wealthy elite
Democracy
Form of government run by the people
Women in Athens
Taking care of their children and family,
Delian leagues
The alliance between the Greek city states
Monarchy
Government run by a king
Oligarchy
Government run by a small group of people
Voting in Athens
Make land owners
Pericles
Was a famous statesmen or politician
Two Greek genres of Greek plays
Tragedy and comedy
Most famous Greek philosophers
Aristotle Plato and Socrates
Peloponnesian war
Sparta won
Parthenon in the Acropolis
Dedicated to Athena
Alexander the Great was a student of
Aristotle
Alexander’s empire
Extended from Macedonia to India
Hellenistic culture
Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Persian
A story about the gods that the Greeks wrote
Mythology
The academy
The name for the cool that Plato founded
How did
Poisonous hemlock
The languages that derived from Latin
Romance languages
Italian Spanish French Portuguese
How did the people of Pompeii die
A volcanic eruption