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Ch. 4 History Notes
Term | Definition |
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Dorians | brought iron weapons with them to Greece. |
hoplites | "ordinary citizens" in the Greek army. |
Mycenaeans | came to Greece from Central Asia. |
Minoans | taught navigation of the sun and stars to the Mycenaeans. |
Fishing, trade, and herding goats and sheep | things the Early Greeks lived by. |
Free, native-born, land-owning men | could be citizens of Greek city-states. |
Spartans | focused on military service. |
20 | age in which Spartan men joined the regular army. |
Athens | focused on government and education. |
upper-class Athenian women | could not leave home without a male relative. |
ephors | enforced laws and collected taxes in Sparta. |
Peisistratus | became popular by giving land to landless farmers. |
Sparta | was an oligarchy. |
Athens | was a democracy. |
Cyrus the Great | king of Persia; united the Persian empire. |
xerxes | king of Persia; he wanted to conquer Greece to increase the country's wealth, to win glory, and for revenge. |
Herodotus | wrote the history of the Persian wars. |
Pericles | made Athens more democratic. |
Age of Pericles | age of creativity and learning in Athens. |
Parthenon | workers hauled 20,000 tons of marble and took 15 years to build this. |
Direct democracy | all the people decide on government matters. |