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Classical Greece
Module 5 Ancient greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why couldn't the areas of greece communicate much? | The mountains around them acted like barriers |
| How did the greek civilizations communicate? | The sea around them |
| what sent the greeks into their "Dark Age" | The Dorians |
| what was the trojan war | a war where the mycenaeans attacked the city of troy |
| what is a polis | ancient greece city state |
| what is a monarchy | gov ruled by a king or queen |
| what is a aristocracy | gov rules by a small group of nobles |
| what is a oligarchy | gov ruled by a few powerful people |
| what is a democracy | gov ruled by the people |
| what is a direct democracy | gov ruled by all the people |
| what is the peloponnesian war | a war where sparta defeated athens |
| what happened to athens int he peloponnesian war | athens lost their empire |
| what was a goal of pericles | to make athens more democratic |
| what kind of leader was pericles | he was honest, fair |
| what is tragedy in plays | a serious drama dealing with, love, hate, war |
| what is comedy in plays | an amusing play that pokes fun at current or past events |
| what is a philosopher | a person who uses logic to explain natural accurences |
| who were three important philosophers | they were Socrates, Plato. and Aristotle |
| why was the parthenon made | to honor the greek god athena |
| where was macedonia | it was north of greece |
| who was philip II | the king of macedonia |
| who was Alexander the Great | philip II son who made a huge empire |
| who was darius III | the persian king |
| what did hellenistic mean | relating to the culture that blended greek with egyptian, persian, and indian influences |
| what was alexandria | an egyptian city that was the center of the hellenistic culture |
| who was euclid | A greek mathematician and pioneer in geometry |
| who was archimedes | a greek scientist, inventor, and mathematician |