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Greece 1 Flashcards

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Minoan palace

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Knossos

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Shrines

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Areas dedicated to gods

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Frescoes

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Water color paintings

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When was the Trojan war?

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1250 BC, between Mycenae and Troy

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Straits

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Narrow water passages

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Homer, 750 BC

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Writer of Iliad, and Odyssey

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Iliad

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Epic poem of Trojan war, about Achilles

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Odyssey

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Tale of hero Odysseus, on his way home from war to his wife, and faces many perils along the way

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Acropolis

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High city, below latex main city

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Citizen

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Free resident

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Monarchy

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A hereditary ruler

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Rule by better people

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Aristocracy

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Oligarchy

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Rule from small wealthy elite

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Phalanx

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Massive tactical formation

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Sparta

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City state, home to spartans, ruthless men and woman

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Athens

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Place that slowly became the first democracy

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Solon

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Appointed leader in Athens, freed all slaves

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Tyrants

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People who gained power by force

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Legislature

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Lawmaking body

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What did Greeks believe?

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Believed that woman and slaves could not think

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Every man make up his mind to fight and move his enemy! Strong as I am, it’s hard for me to face so many men and fight with all at once… And yet I will!

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Homer, Iliad

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Alliance

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Formal agreement between two or more nations

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Pericles

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Was a wise and skill full leader, who was voted for ostracism

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Stipend

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Fixed salary

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Jury

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Panel of citizens who have the right to make final judgement in a trial

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Ostracism

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When someone is voted out

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What killed Pericles?

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During Athens war with Sparta, he allowed people fleeing from the country to enter the city, and it caused plagues which killed him

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Lover of wisdom

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Philosophers

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Logic

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Ration thinking

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Rhetoric

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Art of skillfully speaking

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Socrates

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Wise Philosopher, drank poison

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Plato

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Socrates’s student, wrote book “The Republic”

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Who was Plato’s most famous student???

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Aristotle

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Parthenon

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A temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena

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Agora

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Commercial center of each city state

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Acropolis

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Site of major temples

37
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What is the place of Naked Boys?

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Gymnasia

38
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Theaters were in every city except…

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Sparta

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Cleisthenes (508/7 BC)

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Made democracy for other people

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Phalanx

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Battle formation

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Themistocles (525/460 BC)

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Was ruler, had 200 trireme made (boats)

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Poseidon

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Lord of seas, earth quakes, and horses

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Trageties

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Plays of human suffering

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Father of history

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Herodotus

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Alexander the great

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Concord a lot of the world, but died and his empire fell apart

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Assimilate

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Absorb ideas

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Alaxandria

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City in Egypt

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Dionysus

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God of wine, celebration, ecstasy, and THEATER

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Hippocrates

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Philosopher that studded disease

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Pythagoras

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Calculated the formula for the right triangle

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Heliocentric

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Sun centered universe

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Storied colonnade

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Stoa

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Person who mastered lever and pulley

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Archimedes

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Polis

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City state

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Minoans

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lived on island of crete, were people who’s great achivements depended on its trade, not its conquest. They did the jumping over big bulls thing, and used frescoes. For some reason, the entire civilization dissapeared.

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Phoenicians

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Antiant culture made up of independent city states

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Mycenians

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Were against troy in the trojean war

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Dorians

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People who concored Laconia, built sparta, and became spartans.

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Aristophanes

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Comedian play writter, wrote story about how women banned together to make their husbands face sparta

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Aristotle

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Said women are as superior to men as younger people are to adults

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Macedonia

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Took over Athens in 338 bc

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Phillip

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Father of Alexander the great, hired Artistotle to train his son.

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Delian Leuge

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The alliance that Athens made with other city states

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Hellenistic

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Citys that were Hellenistic had much more artistry and sciences

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Peleponisian war

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People wernt happy with the Delian Leuge taking over there homes, so Sparta and other citie states formed the Peleponesian leuge, and started a war against them.

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Schlieman

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The man who set out to prove the Trojean war was not just a myth

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