AP World History: Classical Greece and Persia Flashcards

7291429860	Minoan	Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E.	0
7291431504	Mycenae	Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom.	1
7291433106	Shaft graves	A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E.	2
7291435254	Phoenicians	Semitic-speakinf Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E.	3
7291437068	Linear B	A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek.	4
7291438503	Hittites	A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age.	5
7291439674	Mass deportation	The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations.	6
7291444801	Library of Ashurbanipal	A large collection of writing drawn from the ancient literary, religioud, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia.	7
7291446722	Israel	In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.E.	8
7291447958	First Temple	A monumrntal sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweb.	9
7291449202	Monotheism	Belief in the existance of a single divine entity.	10
7291449289	Diaspora	A Greek word meaning "dispersal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland.	11
7291451073	Carthage	City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E.	12
7291452077	Cyrus	Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.	13
7291454308	Darius I	Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.)	14
7291454309	Satrap	The govenor of a province n the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often a relative of the king.	15
7291456127	Persepolis	A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homeland.	16
7291456971	Zoroastrianism	A region originating in ancient Iran with the prophet Zoroaster.	17
7291456972	Polis	The Greek term for a city-state, an urban center and the agricultural territory under its control.	18
7291458961	Hoplite	A heavily armored Greek infantryman if the Archaic and classical periods who fought in the close-ppacked phalanx formation.	19
7291458962	Tyrant	The term the Greeks used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community.	20
7291460558	Democracy	A system of government in which all "citizens" have equal political and legal rights, privileges, and protections, as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.	21
7291460559	Sacrifice	A gift given to a deity, often with the aim of creatinf a relationship, gaining favor, and obligatinf the god to provide some benefit to the sacrificer, sometimes in order to sustain the deity and thereby guarantee the continuing vitality of the natural world.	22
7291462156	Herodotus	Heir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period.	23
7291462157	Pericles	Arizrocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens, supervised construction of the Acropolis, and pursued a policy of imperial expansion that led to the Peloponnesian War.	24
7291464158	Persian Wars	Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt through Darius's punitive expedition that failed at Marathon and defeated Xerxes' massive invasion of Greece by the Spartan-led Hellenic League.	25
7291464159	Trireme	Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E.	26
7291467709	Socrates	Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior.	27
7291467710	Peloponnesian War	A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world.	28
7291469370	Alexander	King of Macedonia in northern Greece.	29
7291469371	Hellenistic Age	Historians term for the era usually dated 323-30 B.C.E., in which Greek culture spread scross western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great.	30
7291472233	Ptolemies	The Macedonian dynasty, decended from one of Alexander the Greats officers, that ruled Egypt for three centuries.	31
7291474802	Alexandria	City of the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander.	32