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Stack #23310
| Term | Answer |
|---|---|
| Around the Aegean Sea | Greco-Roman civ. 1st took form in a small, indep. grp. of communites; slow process w/experiment.; mild winters, long dry summers, small pockets of farmland made unified political develop. difficult, resources limited, sea was (+), access to better resour. |
| Climate | mild winters, long dry summers made it possible to live cheaply, summers have good winds to support the "sea-life" to find better resources |
| Poverty as Her Companion | ref. made by Greek historian referring to the fact that Greece has few resources (little tin, copper, iron, timber), soil is limited and poor quality, sub. to erosion, ill suited to cereal production - saved by the sea |
| The Phonecians | (blank) |
| "first taste of higher civilization | (blank) |
| Phonecian colonies and Carthage | (blank) |
| alphabet | (blank) |
| the Hittites | (blank) |
| Boghazkoy | (blank) |
| "adaptation of Mesopotamian models" | (blank) |
| The Minoans | (blank) |
| palace, as "center of civilized life" | (blank) |
| Knossos | (blank) |
| Influences over Aegean | (blank) |
| Linear A and B | (blank) |
| "fine clothing and abundant jewelry" | (blank) |
| "elaborate frescoes" | (blank) |
| contrasts sharply with Egypt/Mesopotamia | (blank) |
| "Mycenean Citadels violently destroyed" | (blank) |
| invaders from Greece called Mycenaens | (blank) |
| "development of the Polis" | (blank) |
| "fortress palaces of the Mycenaeans" | (blank) |
| ecclesia | (blank) |
| monarchy to oligarchy | (blank) |
| phalanx and hoplites | (blank) |
| Dark Ages "War monopolized by nobles" | (blank) |
| debt crisis and colonization | (blank) |
| growth of trade and industry | (blank) |
| Tyrants and hoplites | (blank) |
| taxes and redistribution of land | (blank) |
| wealth without "noble" heritage | (blank) |
| powerful women enshrined in Greek legends | (blank) |
| "exposing unwanted children" | (blank) |
| wives as economic managers of households in ancient Sparta | (blank) |
| "necessary part of a viable society" | (blank) |
| "man-footed animals" | (blank) |
| "long apprenticeship" | (blank) |
| Athens and the Parthenon | (blank) |
| Doric Columns | (blank) |
| Ionic Columns | (blank) |
| "Revolutionary intellectual leap" | (blank) |
| Sophists Search for Absolute Truth | (blank) |
| Socrates and the "Socratic Method" | (blank) |
| "corrupting the youth" | (blank) |
| The Academy | (blank) |
| ideas or "abstract forms" | (blank) |
| the Lyceum | (blank) |
| studying things existing and happening in the real world | (blank) |
| Recasting Greek philosophy into a Roman idiom | (blank) |
| sustained interest in natural science | (blank) |
| observation of sick people | (blank) |
| the Oath | (blank) |
| Romans attempt to "summarize in systematic fashion" | (blank) |
| Greek and Hellenistic scientific knowledge | (blank) |
| deities having human forms and behavior | (blank) |
| fundamental aspect of the life of every Greek | (blank) |
| Olympian deities and "lesser spirits" | (blank) |
| "no elaborate priesthoods" | (blank) |
| "shadowy figure" of Homer | (blank) |
| Rome and the Reception of Greek culture | (blank) |
| Ovid, Metamorphosis | (blank) |
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