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Unit 2 pt 1
Classical Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | Area of land surrounded by water on three sides |
| Climate | Warm summers, Mild winters |
| Crete | Traded with Greek, developed art, Architecture |
| Palace Knoss | Shrines, banquet halls |
| Frescoes | Water color paintings on plaster |
| Mycenaean Invasion | Toombs over main land of Greece and Crete |
| Mycenaeans | Ruled by warrior kings, divided by city-states |
| Written Language | Greek-likes |
| Trojan War | Fought between Greeks and Persians (Because of trade) |
| Polis | City; Center of Greek life |
| Acropolis | Hill top fortress |
| Argo | Market Place |
| Athens | Population of 200,000 people |
| Citizens | Males |
| Non-Citizens | Women, Children, Slaves , and foreigners |
| Political Structure | Monarchy |
| Monarchy | Ruled by King |
| Aristocracy | Nobles |
| Tyranny | Dictator |
| Democracy | Ruled by the people |
| Athens tribes | 10 of them |
| Council 500 | prepared all matters brought before the popular assembly |
| Popular Assembly | All voting Citizens |
| Ostracism | Voters could imposes exile for 10 years on anyone |
| Art and Literature in Sparta | Very Little of both |
| Life in Sparta | Based on the military for citizens |
| Children In Sparta | Weak Children were left to die |
| Boys in Sparta | Went to military school Age: Seven |
| Girls in Sparta | Supposed to produce healthy babies |
| Helots | Slaves in Sparta |
| Greek Religion | Polytheistic, to explain the unexplainable |
| gods | 12 Major ones |
| Festivals | 60 per year |
| Funeral Games | Honored Zeus |
| Mount Olympus | Home of the gods |
| Anthropomorphic | Giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| Oracle | Tell the future |
| Greek and Roman | Shared the same gods |
| Philosophers | Seeker of wisdom |
| Socrates | posed questions and had people thing about their answers |
| Plato | Socrates Student, and wrote "The Republic" |
| Aristotle | Wrote about political issues, logic and biology, Wrote a booked called Ethics |
| Euclid | Founder of Geometry |
| Pythagoras | Geometry |
| Ptolemy | Astronomy |
| Hippocrates | Studied medicine and ethics |
| Amphitheater | Outside arena with seating around it |
| Rules of Dramas | Men actors only |
| Tragedy | A drama that focused on a main character and ends in disaster |
| Sophocles | Wrote plays |
| Comedies | Dramas that make fun of/mock people |
| Aesop Fables | A story at teaches a lesson |
| Sappho | Lyric poem |
| Pindar | Wrote odes |
| Odes | Poetry to honor someone |
| Homer | Wrote epic poems ex. Lilied and the Odyssey |
| Herodotus | Father of history and wrote about the Persian War |
| Thucydides | Wrote about the Peloponnesians |
| Invention of columns | Doric, Ionic and Corinthian |
| Parthenon | Honor Athena |
| Farming In Greece | Grew gapes and olives |
| Colonies in Middle East and Africa | Grew wheat |
| Trade | To get wheat, metal, animal skins and spices |
| Slavery | Used in jobs many didn't want to do. Ex: Mines, house-hold servants and tutors |
| Family structures is Greece | Very tight, father and husband were the head of the household |
| Merchants ins Greece | Had non-citizenship and no political power |
| Persian Wars | Greeks ins Persia were enraged by taxes |
| Athens and City- States | United to Attack Persia |
| Marathon | Greeks won. 26.25 from Athens |
| Thermopylae | 300 Spartan Soldiers protected a path so Persians may stay out of Greece |
| Effects of Persian War | Greek won. Persia was defeated |
| Delian League | Athens and 140 city-states |
| Peloponnesian League | Sparta and it's allies |
| Peloponnesian War | Caused because of revolt over Athenian power and taxes |
| Alliances in the Peloponnesian War | Greeks went inside of Athens city-state to famine |
| Greeks in Athens city-state | Disease whipped out the population |
| Result of Peloponnesian War | Sparta won and Athens was destroyed |
| Pyrrhic Victory | Victory and great costs |
| Effects of Peloponnesian War | City-states were weakened - left them open to invasion |
| Characteristics of Macedonia | 1.Lived in Villages 2. Mastered in horseman ship and soldiers |
| Phillip The Second | United Macedonian tribe and he conquered Greece |
| Alexander the Great | Educated in Greek art, literature and philosophy |
| Actions of Alexander the Great | Conquers Persia- 22,000 miles to the Indus River Valley |
| Effects of Persia being conquered | Spread Greek culture throughout the empire. Persian women began to marry Greek men. Brough Persian men into irony and was tolerant of other religions |
| Hellenistic civilization | Empire split into three parts 1. trade grew 2. women could now be educated and own property 3. Science, art and math increased |
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