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mid-term history
history stuff- Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| homer | a poet who wrote epic poems. wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad |
| aegean sea | sea off the coast of greece that seperates Greece and Turkey and persia |
| peloponesus | peninsula off of Greece. City states there: Corinth, Micine, Sparta |
| Crete | An island south of Greece. Main city= Knossus. |
| Knossus | main city of Crete. Place where the Labyrinth and Minotaur legends took place |
| King Minos | King of Minoan. Sent random kids to the Minotaur |
| City-State | a self governed city and surrounding areas |
| Democracy | People rule together |
| Oligarchy | dictators. rule by several people |
| Tyrant | a person who took power by force and rules with an iron hand |
| Herodotus | historian called father of modern history. Wrote about the Persian war |
| Oracle | Shrines where messages from the Gods were received |
| Delphi | Ancient city of Apollo in Greece. Has the oracle of Delphi there, which is an oracle dedicated to Apollo. |
| Tragedy | something sad or bad. Has a bad ending because a hero has a tragic flaw that causes his defeat. |
| Sophocles | Wrote Oedipus Rex. (story where Oedipus marries his mother and kills his father) |
| Euripides | Wrote Trojan Women. |
| Marathon | Field at which the battle of Marathon was fought. 26.2 miles from Greece. |
| Phidippides | A Professional runner. The fastest Athenian runner that ran from Marathon to Athens to tell the Athenians they had won the war, and then he died. |
| Thermopylae | A mountain pass on a Greek mainland where the Persians defeated 300 Spartans but then the Spartans defeated them at the island of Salamis. |
| Darius | Father of Xerxes. Persian king. Lost war at Marathon |
| Xerxes | Son of Darius. He led some of the Persian wars. |
| Salamis | Island Athenians fled to while Athens was being burnt after the battle of Thermopylae |
| Pericles | Leader of Athenians (during the Golden Age only). Died of the plague. Some Greek Historian wrote about how Pericles had a powerful voice and wrote/spoke great speeches. |
| An Acropolis | the highest point in a city |
| Parthenon | Temple designated to Athena on top of the Acropolis. Has 46 columns. |
| Thucydides | Greek Historian who wrote about the end of the Peloponesian War |
| Philosophy | the search for the truth and the meanings of life |
| Socrates | A great Philosopher. Used Socratic method to teach and went to trial and drank poison and then died. Plato's teacher. Came first |
| Plato | Socrates student. Wrote books about socrates. Most famous book, The Republic. |
| The Acropolis | A mountain in the center of Athens. Has many temples and buildings on it. Parthenon on it. |
| Aristotle | Plato's student. Wrote about science and literature in books. Was Alexanders teacher and taught him about science and literature. |
| Hellenistic | Greek Like (not pure Greek but Greek like). Time when Alexander the Great spread Greek culture throughout the places he conquered. |
| Pythagoras | made Pythagorean therum= A squared+B squared= C squared. Mathematician. |
| Hippocrates | first doctor to look for the natural causes in diseases and started the Hippocratic Oath about how doctors should never hurt. |
| Hellenic | pure Greek culture |
| Agora | Market square near the Acropolis where men spent most of their time. you could shop, communicate, and be a part of the assembly. |
| Sparta | slave population was much larger than citizens. Slaves built very strong army. |
| Spartan Government | monarchy but with two kings. the assembly could not propose laws only vote for or against them. |
| Helots | people that farmed the citizens land that the citizens were given by the government. |
| Spartan culture | shaped by the military. not considered as "good" as Athens (art wise) |
| Athenian culture | poetry, pottery, sculptures, literature, strong democracy, more... "artsy" than Sparta. |
| spartan boys education | left their homes at seven to go live in barracks with other boys. learned to read and write and they trained a lot. at night, they slept on the floor in light clothes in order to make them tougher and stronger. |
| spartan girls education | also got physical education in order to have strong children. they practiced: discuss throwing, wrestling, and running. |
| Athenian boys education | 7+:Reading, writing, math, poetry, and dance. |
| Athenian girls education | no education; taught crafts and poetry by their mothers and got married at age 15. |
| Metics | guest worker, foreigner. |
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