Ancient Greece Flashcards

222922996	Peloponisia	modern day Greece	0
222922997	Anatolia	modern day Turkey	1
222922998	Crete	first powerful Greek society	2
222922999	olympics	honor zeus	3
222923000	Knossos	the capitol of Minoan Greece	4
222923001	Maritime trade	Seatrade that was very successful and had advanced engineering in the Mediterranean Ocean	5
222923002	Fresco	pigment that goes inot the plast in the wall. there was a fresco painting in the Queens chamber	6
222923003	The fall of Minoan Greece	Tsunami or Mycenean Invasions	7
222923004	Trojan War	Helen arrives in Troy, then Agamemnon plans the invasion of Persia to bring back Helen	8
222923005	Agamemnon	Planned the invasion of Persia	9
222923006	Homer	Blind poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey	10
222923008	Acropolis	highest point in Athens	11
222923010	Polis	high point of every town: political and agricultural	12
222923012	Agora	marketplace in all of the city states	13
222923014	Athens	had the strongest navy	14
222923016	Forms of government	1. Monarchy 2. Aristocracy 3. Oligarchy	15
222923018	Transition Team	Tyrants, one at a time, would take control of the government and represented the comon people	16
222923021	Democracy	What Athens evolves into	17
222923023	Draco	First lawgiver; written law, rule of law, punitive, modern term "draconian"; favorite punishment was the death penalty	18
222923025	Solon	Expanded Germany, outlawed debt slavery, opened government positions to commoners	19
222923026	Cleisthenes	Created the first democracy, council of 500. Assembly becomes genuine legislature	20
222923027	Darius was mad	After Darius puts down a rebellion, the Athenians decided to sail across the Mediterrranean to help aid the Ionians	21
222923028	Marathon	26 miles from Athens; It was a win for Athens; city-states came together in times of distress	22
222923029	*Thermopylae	Sparta had the best army	23
222923030	Salamis	Name of straight that the Spartans had to pass through in order to get home. The Athenian navy was waiting for the Spartans on the other side of the straight to blow up the Spartan's ships as they were coming out of the straight. The Greeks won 2 out of the 3 battles, so they won the war.	24
222923031	Dalian League	When Greece came together so it can protect itself as a whole. The leader of the league was Athens	25
222923032	Pericles	academic, intellectual, and economic center; after battles and wars, one was picked to give a eulogy and gave a funeral oration; lotted ideas of Athenian democracy; "Some must die so others can go free"	26
222923033	Parthenon	appealing to eye; symmetry; ideal of beauty	27
222923034	Socrates	no written records; socratic method; questioned everything; lived during the Peloponnesian Wars; government saw questioining as a threat and was put to death by using Hecklock poison	28
222923035	Plato	Socrates' most famous student; thinks Democracy is mob rule; three class society; men surpass women in physical and intellectual tasks	29
222923036	The Academy	school created by Plate which lasted 800-900 years and was the model for most European universities in the mid 1000s	30
222923037	Aristotle	Plato's most famous student; thinks that any government can be good or bad; The golden mean; comes up with logic; scientific method	31
222923038	Drama Tragedians	Aeschylus, Sophacles (Epidus), Euripides	32
222923039	Pythagoras	Pythagorean theorem	33
222923040	Democritus	all matter is made up of small atoms	34
222923041	Hippocrates	"Father of Medicine"	35
222923042	Herodotus	History of the Persian Wars; be objective; father of history	36
222923043	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian Wars; examine the source!	37
222923044	Sparta	powerhouse from 600 BCE- 300 BCE; largest city-state in terms of territory	38
222923045	Slaves	outnumbered the Spartans in a 200:1 ratio	39
222923046	Helots	Spartan slaves	40
222923047	Gerousia	28 member council of elders	41
222923048	Apella	Assembly at the age of 30 which enabled men tohave voting power	42
222923049	Ephors	Made up of 5 selected officials that made many judgements about the war	43
222923050	Phalanx	when a group of men come together, put up their shields and create a dome as a form of defense	44
222923051	Infanticide	children with disabilities get thrown out of society and left to die on their own	45
222923052	Peloponnesian War	a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta after 1/3 of the Athenian population was wiped out by the Athenian plague	46
222923053	Phillip II	ruler of Macedonia; wanted to either control Greece or be accepted by the Greeks as an equal. Alex was his son	47
222923054	Alexander the Great	Went to school in Greece and was educated by Aristotle; conquers Egypt and all of the Middle East, then India; never lost a battle; always had the Iliad with him; made his generals marry princesses or nobles in order to create alliances	48
222923055	Hellensic Period	Alex the Great took control over the Macedonian Empire at age 20; Conquered the entire Persian Empire and capture Persepolis; died at the age of 33 from Malaria; the empire falls apart in North Africa and the entire Middle East	49
222923056	Alexandria, Egypt	Became the center of the academic world	50
222923057	Ptolemic, Egypt	the pharaohs ruling there were of Greek heritage and ruled Egypt for 300 years; the last pharaoh was Cleopatra	51
222923058	Diogenes	Cynics- ignore social conventions and avoid luxeries; citizens of the world; live a humble, simple life	52
222923059	Epicurus	Epicureans- avoid pain and seek pleasure; all excess leads to pain	53
222923060	Zeno	Stoics- live accordingly to reason; ignore pleasure and pain; true happiness is found in great achievement	54
222923061	Hellenistic Art	more realistic, less ideal then Hellenic art; showed more individual emotions, wrinkles, and age	55