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Classical GreeceRome
Classical Greece & Rome
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Minoans | Crete Island, Knossos(palaces), fresco(water color), polytheistic, linear A, females goddesses |
| Polis | city-states |
| Acropolis | Hilltop fortress |
| Democracy | rule by the people; used in Athens |
| Ostracism | voters could impose exile for 10 years on anyone |
| Anthropomorphic | human characteristics on non human things |
| Socrates | philosopher that used logical discussion and reason |
| Aristotle | philosopher; ethics and moral behavior |
| Plato | philosopher; wrote the republic |
| Sophist | philosopher; who rejected absolute truth |
| Parthenon | temple in honor of Athena |
| Pythagoras | geometry; Pythagorean theorem |
| Euclid | Geometry |
| Ptolemy | Astronomy |
| Hippocrates | illness and medicine |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex and Antigone |
| Aristophanes | comedic playwriter |
| Aesop | fables |
| Sappho | Lyrical poetry; woman |
| Pindar | odes |
| odes | poetry that honors something or someone |
| Homer | epic poems; Iliad and Odyssey |
| Herodotus | wrote about the Persian War |
| Thucydides | wrote about the Peloponnesian War |
| Mycenaean | Took Greece and Crete; city-states; traded with Persia; Trojan war; Tombs |
| Agora | marketplace |
| Alexander the Great | Lived in Macedonia; villages; educated by Aristotle; conquered Persia; spread Greek culture |
| After Alexander's death | all areas grew in trade; women could be educated and own property; increase in art and science; spread Greek language |
| Patriarchal | based on the rule of the oldest male in a family |
| Hellenistic | Greek like civilization |
| Etruscans | invaded and controlled Rome; metal working; jewelry; gladiator fights; polytheistic; drained swamps and settled there |
| Republic | type of Government where leaders are elected |
| Senate | Rome; 300 members; issued laws; life term; choose the consul |
| dictatorship | lasted 6 months; formed in a time of war |
| censors | recorded wealth of the population; elected senators |
| praetors | judges |
| assemblies of the people | representative of lower class |
| Patronage System | political favors were expected (I scratch your back, you scratch mine) |
| legion | 6,000 men in Roman military |
| Pax Romana | 200 years of Roman Peace |
| Colosseum | important Greek architecture |
| Virgil | wrote epic poems (Aeneid) |
| Cicero | Wrote about morals |
| Twelve tables | innocent until proven guilty; equality under the law |
| Julius Caesar | first roman dictator; took power from the senate; assassinated in 44 BCE |
| Augustus Caesar | first Roman emperor; ended civil war; established the Roman Empire |
| Christianity | Jesus founded; salvation; forgiveness; Jewish ideas; monotheistic; 10 Commandments |
| Edict of Milan | made Christianity legal |
| Ancient Sparta | little art; based in military; boys would go to military school at 7; women were supposed to produce healthy babies |
| Roman Military | standing army- prepared; legion- well organized; highly disciplined- followed orders; well trained- build strength; garrisons- well organized |
| Garrisons | left in conquered areas for defense |
| Centurions | officers commanding 100 men |
| standing army | paid even when not in war |
| Romans copied Greek civilizations by: | language- Latin; Religion- gods and goddesses; idea of statues; epic poems; architecture; organization of their government; prisoners of war became slaves |
| Athenian democracy | 10 tribes; 200,000 people; direct rule by the people |
| Greek Sculpture | perfect human form; usually of gods |
| Greek columns | Doric-simple; Ionic- scrolls; Corinthian- decorative |
| Religions comparison | same gods but different names; India had Buddhism and Hinduism; China was polytheistic |
| achievements of Greeks | democracy; philosophy; architecture |
| achievements from Hellenistic age | trade; spread Latin |
| Ancient Greek politically | depended on city state; monarchy; oligarchy; aristocracy; democracy; polis; citizens and non citizens; council of 500; ostracism; popular assembly |
| women in Greece | not citizens; in Sparta were expected to produce healthy children and could exercise; not in theater; inferior to men |
| women in Rome | arranged marriages; under guardianship to father; could go in public without male escort; could own property; legal protections |
| Greek drama evolution | began as religious ceremonies; had tragedies and comedies |
| results of Persian war | Athens enters golden age; Sparta forms Peloponnesian League; city states begin to fight |
| results of Peloponnesian war | Sparta won at a great cost; city states were weakened and open to invasion |
| Pyrrhic Victory | to win at a great cost |
| slavery in Greece | non citizens; helot; mines; farmers; soldiers; household servants and tutors |
| Helot | Greek slave that did most of the work |
| slavery in Rome | from conquered city states; below everything; |
| Tribunes creation | to represent the lower class |
| Romans treating the conquered | took slaves and would enslave people if they fought back against Rome; let them keep their religion; garrisons |
| Julius taking over the senate effect | he gets stabbed; led to civil war; led to empire |
| roman contributions | roads; aqueducts; law |
| fall of Rome affects | second Rome; feudalism; no law; chaos |
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