Chapter 5

Question 0

Trojan War

Answer 0

10 year war vs troy (independent trading center located near anatolia)
may be fictional

Question 1

Babylonians

Answer 1

Nomadic warriors know as the Amorites who invaded Mesopotamia and overwhelmed sumer
Hammurabi
Capitol on Babylon

Question 2

Homer

Answer 2

during the dorian age
blind, composed epics
wrote the iliad during the trojan war

Question 3

Athens’ Golden Age

Answer 3

Dilean league maed athens beautiful
glorious art and architecture (parthenon)
rama (tragedy and comedy)

Question 4

Democracy

Answer 4

form of government where citizens rule directly, either directly or thru representatives

Question 5

Persian Wars

Answer 5

a series of wars around 500bc inwhich greek sity states battled the presian empire
moved sparta and athens to thier greatest glory

Question 6

Athinean Democracy

Answer 6

Direct democracy- form of government where citizens rule directly, not thru representatives (important legacy for Periclean Athens)
very important to Pericles plan

Question 7

Pelopnnesian War

Answer 7

war between Athens and Sparta
Sparta won (stronger army/plague in Athens took out 1/3 of pop./attacked Syracuse)
Athens lost all power/wealth resulting in a surrender

Question 8

Sparta

Answer 8

military state, not a democracy
2 kings ruled military
declared the war against Athens

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

questioned the nature of the world and human belief, thought, and knowledge
invented a way of arguing according to rules of logic
used his methods in physics, biology, and phycology
tutored Alexander the Great

Question 10

Plato

Answer 10

philospher + student of Socrates

thought of creating a republic where smartest person was king

Question 11

Hellenistic

Answer 11

relating to the civilization, language, are, science, and literature of the greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to late second bc