Ancient Greece

Question 1

Mycenaean War (who fought, when did they fight, what was it over, who won and what were the consequences?)

Answer 1

Helots early battle between Greek City states Mycenaean and anyone else; were influenced by contact with Minoans

Question 2

Persian War (who fought, when did they fight, what was it over, who won and what were the consequences?)

Answer 2

The city-states of Greece united to fight foreign invaders.

Question 3

Trojan War

Answer 3

evidence of battle-arch. have found remains of cities, etc. Troy vs Myceneaens, 10 years (1200 B.C.)

Question 4

Marathon

Answer 4

Darious the Great Vs. Athens Winner Athens (use the phalanx)
-runner is sent to Athens to tell of their victory and died

Question 5

Thermopoylae

Answer 5

(480 B.C.) Persia had a large foot army led by Xerxes with well-trained soldiers; Greece had 7000 men (300 Spartans); Greece held off the Persian attack for 3 days then all but 300 Spartans left the battle to defend Athens; Spartans held off Persians so others could pass and all are remembered for their sacrifice; many killed by bow and arrow which is considered a coward’s weapon and is despised by most Spartans.

Question 6

Salamis

Answer 6

water battle and Greek city states puncture the huge Persian ships with battering rams and sink 1/3 of the Persian Fleet

Question 7

Peloponnesian Wars

Answer 7

Athens Vs Sparta
Winner: Sparta-fought for nearly 20 years-Athens suffered from from a plague

Question 8

Sparta

Answer 8

Ologarchy

Question 9

acropolis

Answer 9

fortified location in each city-state, usuallyon the highest point in the city-state

Question 10

polis

Answer 10

greek word fot city-state

Question 11

helot

Answer 11

Mycenanean worker-not exactly a slave, but not free to leave the land

Question 12

Phalanx

Answer 12

Military formationthat was highly effective aganist the Persians

Question 13

Delian League

Answer 13

headquartered in Delos-joined the 200 City-States together to get rid of the Persians…its treasuray was used to “glorify Athens” by Pericles

Question 14

Hellenistic Culture

Answer 14

Egypt, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures

Question 15

Socrates

Answer 15

question everything, do what is right no matter what the consequences; sentenced to death for corrupting the youth and died by poison

Question 16

Plato

Answer 16

wrote the Republic, thought only the rich should be able to govern because they were able to have a better education Aristotle wrote down nearly all of the information known to the Greeks at the time (200 books) tutor to Alexander the Great. Taught Alexander everything that was known at the time.

Question 17

Herodotus

Answer 17

“play by play” over Persian wars stuck his opinion into other research tried to “cite his sources”

Question 18

Thucydides

Answer 18

History will repeat itself if given the same circumstances

Question 19

Homer

Answer 19

Great Greek storyteller who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey

Question 20

Euclid

Answer 20

wrote Element a book on Geometry

Question 21

realism

Answer 21

natural look (hellinistic influence)

Question 22

epics

Answer 22

long stories of legend and history weaved together

Question 23

Dorians

Answer 23

introduce the “dark ages of Greece” no written language

Question 24

Myceneaens

Answer 24

first Greek city-state take over the helots

Question 25

Spartans

Answer 25

military based - no individuality

Question 26

Athenians

Answer 26

wanted educated citizens

Question 27

Persians

Answer 27

present day Turkey - Iran (stretch their borders all the way to the Aegean Sea which was held by the Greeks)

Question 28

Macedonians

Answer 28

North of Greece Proper - considered themselves Greek but the Greeks didn't accept them as equals

Question 29

Direct Democracy

Answer 29

The people get to vote on their own laws and be active in their government

Question 30

Representative Democracy

Answer 30

democracy where elected persons represent a group of people

Question 31

Oligarchy

Answer 31

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

Question 32

latitude/longitude

Answer 32

(this will be taken from the map on the test) Image result for latitude/longitude Latitudes are horizontal lines that measure distance north or south of the equator. Longitudes are vertical lines that measure east or west of the meridian in Greenwich, England

Question 33

Monarchy

Answer 33

a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.

Question 34

Aristocracy

Answer 34

form of government where ruling lays in the hands of few people

Question 35

map scale

Answer 35

(actually on the test) The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. This simple concept is complicated by the curvature of the Earth's surface, which forces scale to vary across a map. Because of this variation, the concept of scale becomes meaningful in two distinct ways.

Question 36

observations about the map...

Answer 36

(you have to read the map on the etst)

Question 37

Daruis The Great

Question 38

Xerxes

Answer 38

son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C. at Battle of Thermopylae. Lost at Battle of Salamis.

Question 39

Daruis III

Answer 39

Persian leader who lost to Alaxander the Great and was assassinated by his own men

Question 40

Darius The Great

Answer 40

led Persian army leader that lost at Marathon

Question 41

Philip II

Answer 41

King of Macedonia, murdered at his daughters wedding, father of Alexander the Great-Macedonian king that took over Egypt, Greeece, Persia, and India creating a Hellenisitc culture

Question 42

Pericles

Answer 42

leader of Athens during the "Golden Age", thought it was a good idea to pay public workers-so people would want to work because they had incentive-wanted to create Athenian empire, strengthen the democracy and glorify Athens

Question 43

Xerxes

Answer 43

led Persian army that won at Thermoylae and lost at Salamis

Question 44

Alaxander The Great

Answer 44

King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia creatic a Hellenistic Culture. Became king at 20 years old. Tutored by Aristotle with his fav book being the Illiad by Homer. Invaded Persia and carried out his fathers plan. Led 35,000 soldiers at Antonia, fighting 40,000 at the Grancius River. Ordered his best soldiers to attack Darius after he fought Alex near Issus. Egypt proclaimed him a god-king in 332 B.C. Planned to march his men 11,000 miles in 11 years. Planned cities and roads after he returned to Babylon 10 years into the march. Died of a fever at 32 years old.