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Unit 6 - AGreece

Lessons 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

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17 - What are the roots of Greek culture based on? Interaction among the Mycenaean, Minoan,and Dorian cultures.
17 - What are Mycenaeans? People who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 BC.
17 - What was the Trojan War? A war, fought during the 1200s BC, when Mycenaeans attacked the city of Troy in Anatolia.
17 - What are Dorian's? Greek-speaking people who migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization.
17 - What is a myth? A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
18 - How were the Greek city-states separated from each other? By steep mountains in between them.
18 - What is a monarchy? A monarchy is when the governing power is in the hands of one individual, usually a king.
18 - What is an oligarchy? An oligarchy is when the ruling power lies in the hands of a few people.
18 - What is a tyranny? A tyranny is when the ruling power belongs solely to one individual who is not a lawful king.
18 - What is a democracy? A democracy is when all citizens share in the ruling power.
19 - What were the major differences between Athens and Sparta? Athens and Sparta had contrasting forms of government, their citizens also had very different ways of life.
19 - What was different between the Athenian and Spartan government? Athens was a democracy, while Sparta was an oligarchy.
19 - What was the difference between the Athenian and Spartan economies? Athens’s economy was based on trade, while Sparta's economy relied on farming and on conquests of other people.
19 - How were the lives of women and enslaved people in Athens different from the lives of women and enslaved people in Sparta? Citizenship was not possible for women and people who were enslaved in Athens, however in Sparta, women had more rights than other Greek women and Spartans who were enslaved had more freedom that Athenians who were enslaved didn't have.
19 - How many miles apart was Athens to Sparta? 100 miles
20 - Between what years was Athens the artistic and cultural center of Greece. Between 479 and 431 B.C.E.
20 - Who won the Greco-Persian Wars? The Persians won.
20 - From about 460 to 429 B.C.E., who was the leader of Athens's government? Pericles.
20 - What was Dionysus the god of? Dionysus was the god of merriment.
20 - Who was one of the most influential Athenian philosophers in history? Socrates.
21 - Where does the word alphabet comes from? Two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta
21 - What is one famous Greek mathematician? Euclid
21 - People who become doctors take the what Oath? The Hippocratic Oath.
21 - What did the Greeks discover about the heart? It pumps blood through the body
21 - What type of biology did the Greeks study? Plants and animals.
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