AP World History Chapter 5 Flashcards

5019388309	Cyrus the Great	established great persian empire by 550 bce; successor state to mesopotamian empires	0
5019388310	Solon	canceled land mortgages, freed people enslaved for debt, allowed male citizens to serve on juries, granted commoners right to vote in assembly	1
5019388311	olympic games	one of the pan-hellenic rituals observed by all greek city-states, involved athletic competitions and ritual celebrations	2
5019388312	cleisthenes	expanded democracy by extending citizenship; began practice of ostracism(banishment of those potentially dangerous)	3
5019388313	peloponnesian war	war between sparta and athens	4
5019388314	alexander the great	successor of philip ii; successfully conquered persian empire prior to his death; attempted to combine greek and persian cultures	5
5019388315	antigonids	one of the regional dynasties that followed the death of alex the great; founded in macedonia and greecd	6
5019388316	sophocles	greek writer of tragedies; author of oedipus rex	7
5019388317	ionic	distinct style of hellenistic architecture; more ornate than doric but less than corinthian	8
5019388318	zoroastrianism	monotheistic religion of the persian empire; good went to heaven and bad went to hell	9
5019388319	illiad and odyssey	greek epic poems attributed to homer but possibly the work of many authors, defined gods and human nature that shaped greek myths	10
5019388320	socrates	athenian philosopher of later 5th century bce; tutor of plato; urged rational reflection of moral decisions; condemned to death for corrupting minds of athenian young	11
5019388321	oracle of delphi	person representing the god apollo, allegedly received cryptic messages from the god that had predictive value if the seeker could correctly interpret the communication	12
5019388322	pericles	athenian political leader during 5th century bce, guided development of athenian empire, died during early stages of peloponnesian wars	13
5019388323	macedonia	kingdom located in northern greece, originally loosely organized under kings, became centralized under philip ii, served as basis for unification of greece and later macedonian empire	14
5019388324	ptolemies	one of the regional dynasties that followed the death of alexander the great; founded in egypt; flourished 305 to 30 bce	15
5019388325	stoics	hellenistic group of philosophers; emphasized inner moral independence cultivated by strict discipline of the body and personal bravery	16
5019388326	aristophanes	greek writer of comedies; author of "The Frogs"	17
5019388327	corinthian	disntinct style of hellenistic architecture; the most ornate of the three	18
5019388328	hellenism	culture derived from the greek civilization that flourished between 800 and 400 bce	19
5019388329	city-state	regional government centered in a major city	20
5019388330	peisistratos	tyrant of ancient athens that helped make the city's preeminence possible	21
5019388331	persian wars	wars between the persian empire and greece; persians wanted to conquer greece but greece said no	22
5019388332	delian league	alliance formed by athens after the persian wars; cities contributed to unified treasury on island of delos to support alliance fleet; later taken over by athens and became athenian empire	23
5019388333	philip ii	ruled macendon from 359 to 336 bce; founder of centralized kingdom; later conquered rest of greece, which was subjected to macedonian authority	24
5019388334	seleucids	one of the regional dynasties that followed death of alex the great; founded in mesopotamia	25
5019388335	plato	greek philosopher; knowledge based on consideration of ideal forms outside the material world; proposed ideal form of government based on abstract principles in which the philodophers ruled	26
5019388336	doric	distinct style of hellenistic architecture, least ornate	27
5019388337	helots	conquered indigenous population of spartan city-state; provided agricultural labor for spartan landowners; only semifree; largest population of spartan city-state	28