Greece Test
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| What are the 3 social groups in Sparta? | Equals
half-citizens
Helots
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| What was called the “military machine"? | Sparta
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| What was the Athen’s government? | Monarchy --> Aristocratic --> Democracy
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| Who was Cleisthens? | turned the Athens government from aristocratic to democratic
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| What does the quote “Come home carrying your shield or on it” mean? Where was the person from when they said this quote? | Don't surrender
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| What happened when the Persians first tried to defeat Greece? | Their ships sunk
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| What happened during the Battle of Marathon? | 20,000 Persians vs 10.000 Athenians. Athenians were wimping, but when Persians start to leave they attack. Athenians killed 5,000 Persians and won.
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| Was the Battle of Marathon fair? | No. Athenians started battle when Persians were already leaving.
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| Who was Xerxes? | The leader of Persia. Had an army of 1,000,000. Marched while supply boats followed.
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| Who was the Athenian Admiral? | Themistocles
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| Who was the king of Sparta? | Leonidas
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| What does the quote “A wall of wood will protect Greece” mean? | The supply ships that the Persians had were made of wood. the Oracal of Delphis said this to say that if the supply ships were destroyed, Greece could win.
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| What did Leonitus do? | Controled 40,000 vs 1,000,000 Persians. Fought Persians in Thermopylae. Goal was to stall so they could destroy their supply ships. Sparta sent home people without families and left 300 to fight. They fought for a day.
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| Who won in the Battle of Thermopylae? | Persia.
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| What was the Delian League? | a place to store money for Athenian army. Threatened that if they didnt get money they would kill you. Instead used the money for buildings.
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| What are the effects of the Peloponnesian War? | Spartans won = get Greece --> dont have enough of a population to have Greece. --> Masadonians claim Greece.
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| Who was Draco? | Leader of Athens. Created law code with harsh rules.
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| What did Solon do? | freed slaves
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| What place had the first democracy? | Athens (direct democracy)
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| How were people chosen for the town council in Athens? | randomly selected
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| What made someone the King of Sparta? | smartest
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| What was the Hippocratic Oath? | Doctors can't do bad things. Hippocrates - disease comes from natural causes; not gods
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| Who created the Pythagorean Theorem? | Pythagoras
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| What does the Golden Ratio mean, and how was it used? | it means beauty.
to build architecture like the Parthenon. Also in people's faces.
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| Who created the first Geometry book? | Euclid
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| Who was Sappho? | a famous poet from the island of Lesbos.
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| Was Sappho a male or female? | female
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| Who is known as the “father of History?” | Herodotus. The first historian of the Western World.
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| Who is Aristotle? | created scientific method.
thought Alexander the Great
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| What was Thales’s job? | Philosopher
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| What is the Parthenon? | an architecture based off of the Golden Ratio.
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| Why was the Olympics important? | it bonded the different parts of Greece.
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| What were some events in the Olympics? | horse and chariot
track and field
discus
running
wrestling
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| What made Alexander the Great great? | took over large Empire
spread Greek culture
today Greek backgrounds still exist
Never lost battle(fought for 13yrs)
Established 70 cities
known as a god
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| What mad Alexander the Great not so great? | family murdered after he died
killed people
selfish
greedy
lost land after all that
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| Where was the Minoen Civilization? | Crete
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| Who conquered theMinoen civilization? | Miceneans
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| Who conquered the Miconeans? | Dorians
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| What made the Greek places similar? | believed goddess of Helen made Greece
celebrated the Olympics
language
didn't call Greeks barbarians
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| Who did the Spartans descend from? | Dorians
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| What caused the Peleponisian War? | Athens makes Delian League --> Athenians ask Spantains for help. --> Spantains ask Persians to help
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| Who participated in the Olympics? | naked men
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| Who recruited the first regular paid army? | Philip II (king of Macedonia)
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| Who created a Phalanx? What is a Phalanx? | Philip II (king of Macedonia)
long swords
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| What does Hellenistic mean? | Rich owned the poor. (middle class=rich)
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| How does geography influence Greek history? | Short mountain rages=separate villages
small rivers=no large river system
weather=good crops
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| what is a polis? | city-states
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| What was Socrates job? | Philosopher
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