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KrodriguezSS7
Ch 7 vocabulary and comprehension questions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Athens | A Greek city state, the capital of modern day Greece |
| Agora | A public market and meeting place in the Ancient Greek city, the Agora spelled with a capital A refers to the agora of Athens |
| Vendor | A seller of goods |
| Slavery | Condition of being owned by and forced to work for someone else |
| What activities took place in the Agora of Athens? | Men discussed politics, philosophy, religion and local events |
| What does the Agora tell us about the culture of Athens? | Men led public lives and women led more private lives |
| Describe the home life of the Athenians. | Women were responsible for all things in the home- children, cooking, cleaning. They were the home makers of the family. |
| What were the responsibilities of men compared to those of women in ancient Athens? | Men conducted business in public while women ran the households |
| Considering your answer to the previous question, what conclusions can you make about society in Ancient Athens? | Men and women lived almost separate lives and that democracy only applied to men. |
| Describe the various roles of slaves in Athens and of those in the rest of Ancient Greece. | Slaves provided labor on farms, in mines, in artisans shops and in households |
| Free people rarely questioned slavery in Ancient Greece. Why do you think this was so? | The Greeks were so used to slavery that it did not occur to the, to question it. |
| Sparta | A city state in ancient Greece |
| Helots | Slaves who were owned by the state in ancient Sparta |
| Peloponnesian War | War fought |
| Plague | a wide spread disease |
| Blockade | an action taken to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies |
| describe what life was like for boys living in Sparta | spartan boys lived a strict life of military training. |
| what was the Spartan attitude toward wealth? | they looked down on wealth and those who desired it. |
| how did the Spartan's attitude toward wealth affect their trade and travel? | the Spartans did not like people aspiring to wealth which included travelers |
| how did the Greeks overcome the Persian invasion? | the Greek city-states united against the Persians |
| what was at stake for the people of Athens at the Battle of Marathon? | freedom |
| how might the history of Greece have changed if the Persians had succeeded at Marathon? | Persia might have absorbed Greece into its empire |
| What happened to the Greeks' attitude about themselves after defeating the Persians? | Greeks were impressed by their own importance |
| how did the Athenian empire develop after its victory over Persia? | the empire formed the Delian League. wealth gave Athenians the time and freedom to explore ideas, which led to the Golden Age of Athens. |
| how did Athens play a part in its own downfall? | Athens treated the other city-states unfairly and eventually turned them against Athens. Overcrowding of the city led to a plague, which killed one third of the population. |
| barbarian | a person who belongs to a group that others consider wild or uncivilized |
| assassinate | to murder for political reasons |
| Alexander the Great | king of Macedonia; conquered Persia and Egypt and invaded India |
| Hellenistic | describing Greek history or culture after the death of Alexander the Great; including 3 main kingdoms formed by the breakup of Alexander's empire |
| who was Alexander's tutor when he was young? | Aristotle |
| how did Alexander's upbringing affect his attitudes about Greek culture? | Aristotle taught Alexander about Achilles, whom Alexander wanted to emulate. |
| Alexander the Great wanted the cultures of his defeated cities to survive and mix with Greek culture. What happened instead? Why? | the cities became models of Greek cities with Greek rulers. |
| What features of Greek culture were carried over to the Hellenistic kingdoms? | the temples, agoras and theaters. Greek was the official language. |
| name one way that the domination of Greek culture might have been an advantage. Name one way it might have been a disadvantage. | one common language and the proliferation of science, math and art throughout the empire. the suppression of the local culture's arts and language. |
| describe the importance of the contributions made by Euclid, Eratosthenes and Archimedes | Euclid's proofs of mathematical principles led to geometry. Eratosthenes the Earth's circumference. Archimedes discovered the principles behind using pulleys and levers |
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