3090415785 | Geography | Mountains (city state government) Infertile soil (trade) Rough coast (natural harbors, maritime trade) Few natural resources (used creativity for exported goods) Moderate climate (outdoorsy people, led to democracy) | 0 | |
3090415786 | Crete | Advanced island civilization in the south of Greece with copper, a strong navy, monarchy, Minoans on the island created the basis for Greek religion, clothing, athletics, Knossos was their capital, mysterious disappearance | 1 | |
3090415787 | Linear A & B | Minoan language before and after destruction of city, B was deciphered by Ventris | 2 | |
3090415788 | Arthur John Evans | Excavated Crete 1893, found maze under the city | 3 | |
3090415789 | Aegus | Father of Theseus, great King, gave sacrifice to Minoans for the Minotaur, tried to not let Theseus go, committed suicide | 4 | |
3090415790 | Theseus | Great hero, killed Minotaur | 5 | |
3090415791 | Icarus and Daedalus | Daedalus built the labyrinth that contained the Minotaur, locked in a toward, built wings for him and his son to escape but Icarus died | 6 | |
3090415792 | Peloponnesus | Region that became dominant after Minoans, cities of Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Sparta, Corinth | 7 | |
3090415793 | Mycenaean Age | 1400-1100 BCE colonies on Crete, Cyprus, Hellespont (Dardanelles) | 8 | |
3090415794 | Troy | Dominated straights into Black Sea, discovered by Heinrich Schliemann | 9 | |
3090415795 | Barbaroi | Greek word for non-Greeks, 'people who speak queerly' | 10 | |
3090415796 | Dark Age of Greece | 1100 BCE Dorian invasion (with help of iron from the Hittites) | 11 | |
3090415797 | Homeric Age | 1000-800 BCE, monarchy, Iliad and Odyssey described the Homeric age, but was set in the Mycenaean | 12 | |
3090415798 | Polis | Greek word for city, included a small size, small population, a fort and public meeting place | 13 | |
3090415799 | Aristocracy | Rose up in 800 BCE, when the upper class rules | 14 | |
3090415800 | Uniting factors | Religion, language, Hellenes, olympics | 15 | |
3090415801 | Athens | Settled by the Ionians, never conquered by Dorians, sea traders but main city was built inland (port was Pireas) social classes of citizens, metics, slaves, democracy | 16 | |
3090415802 | ArĂȘte | Greek philosophy to live life to the fullest and do your best | 17 | |
3090415803 | Sparta | Settled by Dorians, social classes of citizens, neighbors, and helots, killed intelligent slave children because fear of slave revolt, weak Spartan babies killed, ephors ruled Sparta, no gold, harsh laws, communal eating, totalitarian government | 18 | |
3090415804 | Life for Boys in Sparta | Age 7: live in army barracks Age 20: joined army Age 30: married Age 60: left army and became an Ephor | 19 | |
3090415805 | Steps to democracy | Draco- code of laws (equality, harsh) Solon- cancels debt, doesn't allow debt to turn to slavery Pisistratus- benevolent tyrant, land reforms and created jobs Cleisthenes- put people in partnership, all citizens can submit laws, council of 500 | 20 | |
3090415806 | Persian wars | 21 | ||
3090415807 | Cynics | People should seek virtue only no pleasure, wealth, social position (Diogenes) | 22 | |
3090415808 | Stoics | World is directed by divine reason, be indifferent to grief, fear, pain, pleasure (Zeno) | 23 | |
3090415809 | Epicureans | The aim of life was to seek pleasure and avoid pain | 24 | |
3090415810 | Aeschylus | Father of Greek tragedy (Agamemnon) | 25 | |
3090415811 | Sophocles | Tragedies to defend traditional values (Oedipus) | 26 | |
3090415812 | Euripides | Tragedies questioning old values (Medea) | 27 | |
3090415813 | Aristophanes | Comedy writer (Congress Women) | 28 | |
3090415814 | Myron | Greek sculptor 'The Discus Thrower' | 29 | |
3090415815 | Phidias | Famous sculptor Athena | 30 | |
3090415816 | Parthenon | Temple to goddess Athena in Athens | 31 | |
3090415817 | Pythagoras | Mathematician, geometric theorem | 32 | |
3090415818 | Euclid | Mathematician, geometry into a system 'Elements' | 33 | |
3090415819 | Archimedes | Mathematician and scientist calculated value of pi, lever | 34 | |
3090415820 | Hipparchus | Trigonometry | 35 | |
3090415821 | Democritus | Scientist, atoms | 36 | |
3090415822 | Eratosthenes | Diameter of the earth | 37 | |
3090415823 | Aristarchus | Heliocentric system | 38 | |
3090415824 | Herodotus | First great historian wrote about Persian Wars | 39 | |
3090415825 | Thucydides | History of Peloponnesian War | 40 | |
3090415826 | Hippocrates | Founder of medicine, cures were rest fresh air and proper diet Hippocratic Oath | 41 | |
3090415827 | Socrates | First of the great Greek philosophies, said people should think for themselves and not imitate their elders, Socratic method: asking questions, condemned to death by hemlock | 42 | |
3090415828 | Plato | Pupil of Socrates, wrote in dialogues, said you cannot determine an attribute or virtue without knowing what virtue is, ideal government was an aristocracy, founded Academy of Athens | 43 | |
3090415829 | Aristotle | Plato's greatest student, taught Alexander the Great, scientist and philosophy, opened the Lyceum | 44 | |
3097252920 | Draco | code of laws (equality, harsh) | 45 | |
3097257407 | Solon | Cancelled debts | 46 | |
3100741121 | Piristratus | Benevolent tyrant, land reforms | 47 | |
3100745537 | Cleisthenes | Council of 500 put people in partnership | 48 | |
3100735120 | Selecus | Asia part of Alexander's empire | 49 | |
3100748467 | Antigonus | Macedonia and greece | 50 | |
3100750147 | Ptolemy | Egypt and Palestine | 51 | |
3100752293 | Federalism | Developed in Greece after fall of Alexander's empire; when power is shared between central and city state governments | 52 |
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