Amsco AP World History Chapter 3 Voc Flashcards
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| 7690522823 | Knossos | beautiful city in Crete built by the Minoans | 0 | |
| 7690522824 | Polis | A city-state in ancient Greece. | 1 | |
| 7690522825 | Herodotus | first Greek historian, wrote The Histories | 2 | |
| 7690522826 | monarchy | a king rules the state | 3 | |
| 7690522827 | Sparta & Athens | two of the most powerful poleis, one was known for political and intellectual achievements | 4 | |
| 7690522828 | Helots | Slaves | 5 | |
| 7690522829 | Pericles | Ruled during the Golden Age (461-429 BCE) of Greece, created the Council 500 and the People's Court | 6 | |
| 7690522830 | Archons | nobles | 7 | |
| 7690522831 | Socrates | Greek thinker that was put to death for questioning Greek religion | 8 | |
| 7690522832 | Plato | Student of Socrates; opened the Academy and wrote The Republic | 9 | |
| 7690522833 | The Republic | Plato envisioned a society composed of workers, warriors and "philosopher kings" | 10 | |
| 7690522834 | Aristotle | Student of Plato's; best known for his ideas about ethics, created the Golden Mean | 11 | |
| 7690522835 | Golden Mean | The perfect average/middle; emphasis on moderation | 12 | |
| 7690522836 | Empiricism | Trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses, rather than emphasizing intuition or religious beliefs | 13 | |
| 7690522837 | Poetics | Defined tragedies and comedies in theater | 14 | |
| 7690522838 | Syncretic | Combining of ideas from different sources | 15 | |
| 7690522839 | Euripides & Sophocles | Greek playwrights | 16 | |
| 7690522840 | Comedies | Plays in which a character triumphs over hardships | 17 | |
| 7690522841 | Aristophanes | Wrote 40 plays and 11 of them are still know; he is considered boring by most students | 18 | |
| 7690522842 | Prometheus Bound | Tells the story of how Prometheus stole fire from Zeus for the humans; tragedy written by Aeschylus | 19 | |
| 7690522843 | Parthenon | Temple in Athens that was destroyed in the Persian Wars and was later rebuilt; a Greek architectural style | 20 | |
| 7690522844 | Cyrus the Great | Leader of the Persian Empire (ruled 559-529 BCE), conquered most of the lands from the Aegean Sea (west of Turkey) to the borders of India | 21 | |
| 7690522845 | Achaemenid Empire | The first Persian Empire; conquered by Cambyses (who conquered Egypt and part of Southeast Europe) | 22 | |
| 7690522846 | Darius I | Ruled 522-486 BCE, Persia divided lands it conquered into provinces so that the king's policies announced in the capital of Persepolis could be administered throughout the Empire. | 23 | |
| 7690522847 | Royal Road | Spawned 1,500 miles across the Empire was the most famous of the network of roads built to encourage trade | 24 | |
| 7690522848 | Zoroastrianism | Faith created by the prophet Zarathustra, monotheistic (Ahura Mazda) | 25 | |
| 7690522849 | Battle of Thermopylae | Xerxes organized a force of thousands and attacked Greece and their allies | 26 | |
| 7690522850 | Peloponnesian War | Started by Sparta which revolted against paying taxes to Athens | 27 | |
| 7690522851 | Alexander the Great | Son of Phillip II; founded Alexandria and went on many conquests | 28 | |
| 7690522852 | Sassanids | The ones who defeated the Parthians in 224 BCE | 29 |