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Ancient Greece
Social Unit #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some of the influences that Ancient Greece had on our government? | Ostracism (Impeachment)(Complaints), Elections, Assembly (Congress), Trial Jury (now lawyers) |
| Minoan Civilization | Lead by King Minos, Labyrinths in the clasel (Maze), Well protected, No walls needed (Island), Religion had more goddesses then gods (Mother earth) |
| Reasons for the Collapse of Minoan Civilization | Cities destroyed by underwater earthquakes (Tital wave) |
| Great goddess | Mother Earth |
| Mycenaean Invasion (Known for) | Taxes-livestock, Honey, and wheat, Good at shipbuilding, navigation (using the sun and the stars) |
| Dark age | Lasted 300 years, Overseas trade stopped, Poverty increased, People lost their skills, Caused the invasion of the Dorians, Fled to Ionia |
| Ionia (Dark age) | Sing stories-Bards, The Iliad and the Odyssey-Time periods during the trojan war, Took all rituals and culture with them |
| Trojan war | Helen-Wife of Spartan King Menelaus, Helen had a face that launched a thousand ships, Lasted 10 years (Fought seasonally) |
| Sophish | Claimed to have universal knowledge of everything, gave speeches in Agora publicly, taught men how to win an argument, took money for their teachings |
| Protagoras (Quote) | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder |
| Parmenides (Quote) | Nothing can move |
| Gorgias (Quote) | Nothing exists |
| Socrates | (Socrates) Decided that Greece was being poisoned, Devoted his life to disproving the sophists, took no money for his services, Sentence to death by the sophist's (Drank poison) |
| Socrates (Quote) | "The only thing I know is that I don't know" (Everything) |
| Plato | A student of Socrates, Teacher of Aristotle, Preferred the government of sparta-State over personal goals |
| Aristotle (Quote) | Master of knowledge |
| Aristotle | Tutored Alexander the Great, Lyceums-School assembly, Invented syllogism, Felt power should lie with the Middle class |
| Why did Aristotle believe that power should lie in the middle class? | They know how to command and to obey (they have been on both sides) |
| Hippocrates | Father of Medicine, Medical code of conduct-Hippocratic oath |
| Herodotus | Father of History |
| Pythagoras | Pythagorean theorem |