AP World History- Greeks and Persians Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images [1]
| 7605188639 | What are these civilizations a part of? | The Second Wave or Classical Civilizations | 0 | |
| 7605188640 | The Achaemenid Empire was Persian or Greek? | Persian | 1 | |
| 7605188641 | Who was the first ruler of the Achaemenid Empire? | Cyrus | 2 | |
| 7605188642 | Who was the head ruler in Persian government? | Great King (because the empire was so big) | 3 | |
| 7605188643 | Who were the Satraps? (Persian) | Governors appointed by the king; ~20 | 4 | |
| 7605188644 | Who were the "eyes and ears of the king"? (Persian) | Spies that the king sent to watch the satraps | 5 | |
| 7605188645 | True or False: the Persians were accepting of other customs | True. They did not force their culture on the places they conquered | 6 | |
| 7605188646 | What is infrastructure? | The basic things that keep society running (ex good roads) | 7 | |
| 7605188647 | Where was the Persian Empire? | East of the Mediterranean Sea, Middle East (remember Iran) | 8 | |
| 7605188648 | Where was the Greek Empire? | Greece | 9 | |
| 7605188649 | Were the Greeks united? | NO they were many city-states | 10 | |
| 7605188650 | What was Hellenes (Greek) | The Greek way of saying they were Greeks | 11 | |
| 7605188651 | What was the main way the Greeks told their heritage and values? | Through literature or oral stories | 12 | |
| 7605188652 | Was the Greek Empire a patriarchy? | Yes | 13 | |
| 7605188653 | What was the Greek religion? | Greek mythology (polytheistic) | 14 | |
| 7605188654 | How did the Greeks colonize the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions? | By sea exploration | 15 | |
| 7605188655 | Why were the Greeks looking to expand? | Growing population and the want for more land and resources | 16 | |
| 7605188656 | Who came up with the idea of Citizenship? What were some effects of their version of it? | Greeks; citizens could influence the government, contributed to the community, had rights and duties | 17 | |
| 7605188657 | Who were tyrants? | A ruler who seized power (often by force) and often helped common people by taking away some of the power of the upper class | 18 | |
| 7605188658 | In the early Greek Empire, who made the best of warriors? | Rich, upper-class males because they could afford better supplies | 19 | |
| 7605188659 | Who was Lygurchus of Sparta? | A tyrant in Sparta who "solved" the problem of slave revolts by training every male in warfare and killing the weak ones (including babies) | 20 | |
| 7605188660 | What tyrant made Athens into the first true democracy? | Pericles | 21 | |
| 7605188661 | Who was the basis of Athenian government? | Athenian citizens | 22 | |
| 7605188662 | What was the main interactions between these two empires? | WAR (originally because of expansion of both) | 23 | |
| 7605188663 | What was the Battle of Marathon? | War between the Persians and Athens that started because Athens sent aid to Persian-occupied Greek cities (490 B.C.) | 24 | |
| 7605188664 | Who won the Battle of Marathon? | Athens | 25 | |
| 7605188665 | What were some effects of the Greek victory in the wars against the Persians? | Confident, led to a "Golden Age" of culture | 26 | |
| 7605188666 | What was the Peloponnesian War? | Greek civil war where Athens encouraged an alliance of the Greek cities and then tried to rule all of the cities, lasted 28 years | 27 | |
| 7605188667 | Who won the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta and its allies | 28 | |
| 7605188668 | What was a lasting effect of the Peloponnesian War? | Greece was weakened | 29 | |
| 7605188669 | Philip II of Macedonia did what for Greece? | Unified the Greek states (after conquering them) | 30 | |
| 7605188670 | Who was Alexander the Great? | Second leader of the unified Greek Empire; who invaded Persian Empire and stretched the Greek Empire to Egypt and India; early death (from sickness) | 31 | |
| 7605188671 | How long did it take for the Greek Empire to reach its peak under Alexander the Great? | 10 years | 32 | |
| 7605188672 | What was the Macedonian Phalanx? | Strategy that Philip II made that has a wall of spears | 33 | |
| 7605188673 | What were the main points of the Hellenistic Age? | (1) Divided Greek Empire into several large kingdoms; (2) Spread language and culture; (3) influenced by eastern cultures; (4) Greek cities were founded | 34 | |
| 7605188674 | Who were the Magistrates? | Part of the Greek democracy, elected by the People's assembly, applied laws | 35 | |
| 7605188675 | What was a common selection for the Greek government? | Lottery | 36 | |
| 7605188676 | Who were the People's court? | 6000 jurors selected by lottery in Greek government | 37 |