Ancient Greece Flashcards

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Scene 1: Minion Crete. Where and when did this take place?

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220-1400 B.C, the isaland of Crete

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What was the first important European civilization after the flood?

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Minion Crete

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3
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What city built a palace based society?

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Minion Crete

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What is a palace based society?

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The general population clustered and built there houses around the palaces.

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Scene 2: Mycenaean civilization. Where and when did this take place.

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1800-1000 B.C.
located on the Balkan and Peloponnesian peninsula

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What city had an economy based on raids and trades and what does mean in return?

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Mycenaean civilization and in return this means a lot of interaction with Canaan Cyprus, Crete

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Scece 3: Greece’s dark age.
When was Greece’s dark age?

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1200-800B.C

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what 3 things were brought about by Greece’s dark age

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  1. The loss of the ability to write
  2. depopulation spiral
  3. the loss of technology
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9
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what city started the spread of Greek culture all over the Mediterranean?

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The Mycenaean civilization

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what brought about Greece’s recovery from the dark age?

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trade, innovation, and cultural interaction with other cities.

  1. Iron metallurgy
    2.phoencian alphabet
  2. creation of surplus
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scene 4: Archaic age

When was this and what was created during this time?

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750-500 B.C.

The creation of the Greek Polus

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12
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What is a Polis?

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a city state that is fiercely independent form other states.

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13
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Raw materials/wealth varied greatly form _______?

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city state to city state

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Why was Greece’s city state unique?

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because poor men had nearly the same rights as rich men.

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15
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slaves comprised 1/3 of the population during which age?

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The archaic age

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16
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each city state reverenced a particular deity who was the city’s protector. For example…

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Athens and Athena

17
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What city was the birth place of democracy and poetry ?

A

Athens

18
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Scene 5: Golden age.
when and what was another name for this age.

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450 B.C.

Also known as the classical age

19
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What was the golden age (classical age) know for?

A

the flourish of philosophy, education

20
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who were the big three?

A

in this order

  1. Sorates
  2. plato
  3. Aristotle
21
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what ended the golden age?

A

the Peloponnesian war

22
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where did the war take place and who was involved?

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It was in Sparta against Sparta and Athens

this war went on for years and years and years

23
Q

who conquers the known world?

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Alexander the great

24
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what was Hellenization Asia?

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taking the Greek culture and spreading it with every nation Alexander the Great conquered and mixing it with there own cutlers

25
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scene 6: the Hellenistic age.

When did this take place and what took place?

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300-30 B.C

Alexander the great died at 33 and his empire was broken up and each of his generals had control of a piece

26
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what was the biggest contribution the Greeks had?

A

the spread of Greek thinking is the most important thing we ger from ancient Greece.