Matching/Vocab Terms Test 1- The Greeks Flashcards

273917555	Delian League	Alliance of Greek city states around Athens after the successful Persian War	0
273917556	Rhetoric	The art of effective persuasion, both oral and on the page	1
273917557	Parthenon	The most famous example of Greek architecture, on Athens' Acropolis	2
273917558	Thermopylae	Site of the great stand by the Spartans during the Persian War	3
273917559	Peloponnesian War	Ended the "Golden Age" of Athens and gave Sparta a great victory	4
273917560	Battle of Marathon	Early Greek victory in the Persian War, announced in Athens by Pheidippides	5
273917561	Oligarchy	A government system in which the power belongs to a few elite citizens	6
273917562	Acropolis	Hilltop fortress in the Greek city states, in Athens site if the Parthenon	7
273917563	Knossos	The capital of the Minoan culture on Crete, site of the mythical labyrinth	8
273917564	Battle of Salamis	Resulted in reconquest of Athens and the final defeat of the Persian Empire	9
273917565	Helots	Captured slaves who made up more than half the population of Sparta	10
273917566	Hellenistic Culture	Spread by Alexander, it combined Greek w/Indian, Persian and Egyptian ideas	11
273917567	Sparta	The Peloponnesian city-state that was Athens' great rival	12
273917568	Fresco	Wall painting done with water color mixed in plaster	13
273917569	Sophists	Early Greek philosophers who sought practical success through rhetoric	14
273932135	Heinrich Schliemann	Archaeologist who claimed he found ancient Troy	15
273932136	Herodotus	The first historian, he wrote a history of the Persian War	16
273932137	Sappho	The first great poetess of love in the Western Tradition	17
273932138	Sophocles	Famous playwright, most known for tragedies such as Antigone	18
273932139	Lyceum	The Athenian school of philosophy established by Aristotle	19
273932140	Alexander the Great	Established a massive empire in only thirteen years as a ruler	20
273932141	Pythagoras	The greatest of the early Greek mathematicians	21
273932142	Sir Arthur Evans	British archaeologist who excavated the Minoan capital Knossos	22
273932143	Cleisthenes	Athenian ruler who established the Council of 500	23
273932144	Hippocrates	Greek philosopher who first established the principle of modern medicine	24
273932145	Thucydides	Introduced objectivity and verification of facts to history writing	25
273932147	Pericles	Ruler during Athenian Golden Age, oversaw creation of direct democracy	26
273932148	Homer	Thought to be a blind poet, he wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey	27
273932149	Philip of Macedonia	Conquered the Greek city states before he was assassinated	28
273932150	Thales	Helped establish the idea of natural laws and the existence of atoms	29