4004948663 | 4 governments of Greece | Monarchy- single person rule Oligarchy- ruled by a group of a few wealthy men Tyranny- seized illegally and is a sole ruler Democracy- ruled by people/ "power of the people" | 0 | |
4004948664 | Oligarchy | Is focused on class. Merchants may rule so people who are merchant shave enhanced rights! Not always wealthy and Royal | 1 | |
4004948665 | Roman Republic (indirect democracy) | Had 3 branches. Consuls, Senate, and Assembly! Instead of everyone voting on everything, people select representatives to vote for them | 2 | |
4004948666 | Assembly | Elect consuls and can vote on laws and declare war or make peace | 3 | |
4004948667 | 2 Consuls | One year term and choose senators and oversee work of gov officials. They are judges, they can choose dictator in times of crisis | 4 | |
4004948668 | Senate | Life time and are advisors and can disapprove or approve laws. They determine how money is spent and deal with foreign countries. They hold some influence over army and Consul, Consul elects Senate | 5 | |
4004948669 | Democracy (Greek) Direct democracy | Citizens get to vote on laws. They bring all citizens to middle of city and raise their hands to vote on laws. Citizens rule directly and make laws | 6 | |
4004948670 | Start of Rome | Remus and Romulus- orphans who were raised by wolves and the place where they were fished out of river is where the Roman Empire starts | 7 | |
4004948671 | Greeks/ Minoans | *Based off trade and found in Crete 2000-1400 B.C. *Knossos is a main city with Huge Palace that was very complex *Bulls were important in art and religion *Had a Labyrinth maze that King would send people into and most of the time they died in the maze *Motif were founded here *Had "Linear A" language, A is indecipherable and this what the Greeks base their alphabet off of *hypothesized to have ended when they merged with Mycenaeans and formed one big civilization | 8 | |
4004948672 | Mycenaeans | *Lions gate is how they entered city *"Linear B" is language * Greek dark age is 1100-750 BC because nothing is really written down but it later picks up because of trade and this increases communication and language Homer- blind poet | 9 | |
4004948673 | Polis | An individual city state | 10 | |
4004948674 | Plebeians( Rome) | Working class | 11 | |
4004948675 | Patricians( Rome) | Wealthy aristocrats | 12 | |
4004948676 | Roman laws | Innocent till proven guilty Person must have evidence of crime of accusing someone Person is punished based on actions not thoughts Unfair laws can be put Aside | 13 | |
4004948677 | Athens | Largest city state | 14 | |
4004948678 | Athens citizen | Male, Athenian born | 15 | |
4004948679 | Solon | Makes class system based on Wealth instead of lineage and created council of 400! 1/10 of population is citizen | 16 | |
4004948680 | Cleisthenes | Increases to 500 council and lottery selected. Tries to balance proper between poor and rich. Makes Athenian citizens 1/5 of population after he aloes foreign men to vote | 17 | |
4004948681 | Roman Empire | Italy, Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor, and North Africa | 18 | |
4004948682 | Perciles | Starts paying gov officials | 19 | |
4004948683 | Greek mythology | Zeus- sky, thunder and god of gods Roman CP- Jupiter Athena- wisdom Roman CP- Minerva Apollo- poetry , art, archery, sun, light, medicine, music, and oracles Roman CP- Phoebus Poseidon- sea Roman CP- Neptune Aphrodite- love Roman CP- Venus Ares- war Roman CP- Mars Hera- marriage and child birth Roman CP- Juno Hermes- messenger RC- Mercury Eros- love RC- Cupid Hades- underworld and death RC- Pluto Artemis- hunting RC- Diana Dionysus- wine and fertility RC- Bacchus Hephaestus- fire working and blacksmith RC- the Vulcan | 20 | |
4004948684 | Athens | More a philosophy and trade city state Women had no rights Men learned writing, algebra, gymnastics, astronomy, art, philosophy, etc | 21 | |
4004948685 | Sparta | War and farming city state Women were equal and highly revered Spartan boys left at 7 for war training and 21-60 were ages for soldiers No written laws and discouraged trade and travel | 22 | |
4004948686 | Socrates | Taught Plato and was philosopher | 23 | |
4004948687 | Plato | Taught Aristotle and was a philosopher | 24 | |
4004948688 | Aristotle | Taught Alexander the Great and was Philosopher and astronomer and more | 25 | |
4004948689 | Greek Dramatists | Aeschylus- specifically in tragedy Euripides- Wrote tragedies | 26 | |
4004948690 | Writers (Greeks ) | Homer Hesiod Sappho Pindar Aristophanes Aesop | 27 | |
4004948691 | Military leaders of Greece | Alexander the great | 28 | |
4004948692 | Law makers and lawyers | Demosthenes Draco | 29 | |
4004948693 | Historians | Herodotus Thucydides | 30 | |
4004948694 | Mathematicians and inventors and astronomers and Doctor | Archimedes Aristarchus Euclid Hippocrates Pythagoras | 31 | |
4004948695 | Romans famous | Most were military leaders | 32 | |
4004948696 | Greeks famous | Most were thinkers | 33 | |
4004948697 | Poets of Rome | Ovid Virgil | 34 | |
4004948698 | Emperors | Nero Commodus Trajan Constantine Justinian Theodosius Augustus Caligula Titus | 35 | |
4004948699 | Consul members and senators or politicians and lawyer | Gaius Marius Marcus Cato Marc Antony Pontus Pilate Marcus Brutus Marcus Cicero | 36 | |
4004948700 | Gladiator | Spartacus | 37 | |
4004948701 | Soldiers and military leaders | Tiberius gracchus | 38 | |
4004948702 | Zeus | Jupiter | 39 | |
4004948703 | Athena | Minerva | 40 | |
4004948704 | Artemis | Diana | 41 | |
4004948705 | Dionysus | Bacchus | 42 | |
4004948706 | Apollo | Phoebus | 43 | |
4004948707 | Poseidon | Neptune | 44 | |
4004948708 | Hera | Juno | 45 | |
4004948709 | Hermes | Mercury | 46 | |
4004948710 | Eros | Cupid | 47 | |
4004948711 | Hades | Pluto | 48 | |
4004948712 | Hephaestus | The Vulcan | 49 | |
4004948713 | Ares | Mars | 50 | |
4004948714 | Aphrodite | Venus | 51 | |
4004948715 | Natural advantages of Rome? | By the Mediterranean Sea so open for trade and allow conquer people by sea. However, the hills and mountains block invaders | 52 | |
4004948716 | Natural advantage of Greece? | Mountains offer barrier to protect from invaders. Lack of agriculture so they traded with one another and others | 53 | |
4004948717 | Tarquinius | People tried to put T back on the thrown in 509 BC and reinstate monarchy | 54 | |
4004948718 | Res publica | Commonwealth (republic) | 55 | |
4004948719 | Etruscans | Ancient Italian civilization 700 BC before Romans | 56 | |
4004948720 | Roman art | Bust of people | 57 | |
4004948721 | Greek art | Mosaics | 58 | |
4004948722 | Roman architecture | Lots of arches and used art on walls | 59 | |
4004948723 | Greek architecture | Lots of columns and used art on vases | 60 | |
4004948724 | Olympics | Offering to gods or way to honor them had Boxing Running Wrestling Horse racing Pentathlon | 61 | |
4004948725 | Trojan war | Helen was captured from Sparta and taken to Troy eventually Greeks won war and got her back to rule with Menelaus her husband | 62 | |
4004948726 | Persian war | 50 year war Persians vs Greeks Darius (Persian King) wanted to expand The Greeks won | 63 | |
4004948727 | Peloponnesian war | Athens vs Sparta Fight over control Sparta wins April 25, 231 BC- 204 | 64 | |
4004948728 | 1-3 Punic war | Carthage vs Rome Rome wins all Punic wars and expands empire 2nd Punic war Hannibal crises also with elephants 3rd Carthage is destroyed | 65 | |
4004948729 | Greek fall /peak | Alexander the Great expands empire to height and empire falls because of different beliefs such as Egyptians | 66 | |
4004948730 | Roman fall/ peak | Huns celts and goths invade, plague, decentralization, movement of power form senators to generals and struggle between masses and elite and over taxes. No viable systems of succession | 67 | |
4004948731 | Lasting impact of G and | Art democracy and architecture | 68 |
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