Ap world history chapter 10 Flashcards
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| 10531124524 | autonomous | self-governing; independent | 0 | |
| 10531124525 | Minos | King of Crete | 1 | |
| 10531124526 | Minoan | Society located on the island of Crete that influenced the early Mycenaeans. | 2 | |
| 10531124527 | Mycenaeans | An Indo-European people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. | 3 | |
| 10531124528 | Trojan War | a war, fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia | 4 | |
| 10531124529 | Homer | A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey | 5 | |
| 10531124530 | Polis | Greek city-state | 6 | |
| 10531124531 | tyrant | a leader who held power through the use of force | 7 | |
| 10531124532 | despot | a dictator with absolute power | 8 | |
| 10531124533 | Peloponnesus | the southern peninsula of Greece | 9 | |
| 10531124534 | Helots | Spartan slaves | 10 | |
| 10531124535 | Chattel Slavery | A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property. | 11 | |
| 10531124536 | Spartan | highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere | 12 | |
| 10531124537 | Solon | Early Greek leader who brought democratic reforms such as his formation of the Council of Four Hundred | 13 | |
| 10531124538 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon. | 14 | |
| 10531124539 | maritime | on or near the sea | 15 | |
| 10531124540 | Persian wars | A series of wars between the Greeks (mainly Athens) and the Persians in which the Greeks were usually victorious. | 16 | |
| 10531124541 | Darius | Persian king who put satraps in place and built the Royal Road | 17 | |
| 10531124542 | Xerxes | (c. 519-465 BC) King of Persia; his armies invaded Greece but were eventually defeated by the Greeks. | 18 | |
| 10531124543 | Delian League | Alliance between Athens and many of its allied cities following the first attempted invasion of Perisa into Greece. Caused a lot of wealth to flow into Athens and thus contributed to the Athenian "golden age." | 19 | |
| 10531124544 | Peloponnesian War | (431-404 BCE) The war between Athens and Sparta that in which Sparta won, but left Greece as a whole weak and ready to fall to its neighbors to the north. | 20 | |
| 10531124545 | Philip II | Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece under his banner until his death or murder. He was succeeded by his son Alexander. | 21 | |
| 10531124546 | Alexander | King of Macedonia in northern Greece. Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East. Later known as Alexander the Great. (p. 136) | 22 | |
| 10531124547 | Hellinistic Age | a period of time when anicent Greece and Asian cultures mixed split Greece in three empires | 23 | |
| 10531124548 | The Antigonid realm | Smallest Hellenistic empire tension w rulers and Greek cities(want autonomy) | 24 | |
| 10531124549 | Ptolemaic Egypt | A Hellenistic Kingdom after the death of Alexander ruled by Ptolemy and a dynasty of his descendants who influenced Egypt to be Greek. | 25 | |
| 10531124550 | Megalopolis | a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together | 26 | |
| 10531124551 | the Seleucid realm | Greek influence greatest extent in Hellenistic lots new cities many thriving commercial centers | 27 |