Chapter 7- Ancient Greece

Question 1

Where is Greece

Answer 1

On the Balkan Peninsula coming out of southeastern Europe

Question 2

What are the two maim parts of Ancient Greece

Answer 2

Attica- north

Peloponnesus-south almost Island

Question 3

Where did the Minoans live

Answer 3

Crete

Question 4

Mycenaeans lived on

Answer 4

The mainland (Peloponnesus)

Question 5

Where did the Trojans live

Answer 5

I’m troy across the Aegean drain Asia Minor

Question 6

When and how was minoa established

Answer 6

2000 BC when Abraham left Ur In Sumer

Question 7

What parts of Minoan culture did we recently discover in 1900

Answer 7

The palace of king Minos at Knossos on Crete

Plumbing, vases, bronze daggers, cups of gold

Question 8

What were the Mycenaeans names after

Answer 8

The city of Mycenae

Question 9

Who were the Greeks of the Trojan war

Answer 9

The Mycenaeans

Question 10

Who was the Trojan war recounted by and in what

Answer 10

Homer

Iliad and odyssey

Question 11

What group of people adopted much of the Minoan culture

Answer 11

The Mycenaeans

Question 12

What year did the Mycenaeans raid the Knossos and conquer Crete

Answer 12

1400 BC

Question 13

What group of people emerged from the fusion of the Mycenaeans and the dorians

Answer 13

Hellenes who are the Greeks of classical times

Question 14

What period of the Hellenes made great contributions to western civilization

Answer 14

The classical period

Question 15

Trojan war date

Answer 15

1200BC

Question 16

What two groups were fighting in the Trojan war

Answer 16

The Mycenaeans vs the city of Trojan

Question 17

How many years did the Mycenaeans lay siege to Troy

Answer 17

10 yrs

Question 18

What is the Iliad about

Answer 18

The Trojan war

Question 19

What is the odyssey about

Answer 19

A brave Greek warrior named Odysseus and his 10 yr journey home after the defeat of Troy

Question 20

Zeus

Answer 20

The father of the gods associated with thunder and lightning

Question 21

Apollo

Answer 21

Connection with the sun

Question 22

Poseidon

Answer 22

Connection with the sea

Question 23

Artemis

Answer 23

Connection with the moon

Question 24

Wisdom

Answer 24

Athena

Question 25

War

Answer 25

Aries

Question 26

Love

Answer 26

Aphrodite

Question 27

Hero’s

Answer 27

We’re humans that can die like Achilles

Question 28

What were the gods a symbol of

Answer 28

Civic arrogance and not very personal

Question 29

What did homers stories lead to

Answer 29

Ancestral worship which made family ties really strong

Question 30

Polis

Answer 30

(City) families who became villages and tribes who joined to form this

Question 31

Acropolis

Answer 31

A hilltop fortress providing refuge and a seat for the govt and religion

Question 32

Agora

Answer 32

Marketplace and concourse of commerce conversation and debate

Question 33

The two things many cities had

Answer 33

Amphitheater’s | Gimnasiums

Question 34

How many city states

Answer 34

150

Question 35

How was unity started

Answer 35

Through common Language religions and war

Question 36

The olympics were developed in and were and example of

Answer 36

776 BC | UNITY

Question 37

When did the Olympic stop and when were they recovered as an international event

Answer 37

394BC | 1896 AD

Question 38

Greco Persian war dates

Answer 38

490-479 BC

Question 39

When did the Ionians revolt against the Persians

Answer 39

499 BC

Question 40

What cities refuses to submit to Darius

Answer 40

Athens Eretria Sparta

Question 41

Explain the battle of marathon

Answer 41

There you send a fleetOf 600 chips to Greece. They defeated Eritrea in March to Marathon just north east of Athens. The athenians charged the Persians and won even without the delayed troops from Sparta. This proved to the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten and brought for Stege to Athens that begin to rise to power among the city states

Question 42

Explain the battle of Thermopylae

Answer 42

10 years after marathon Darius’ son Xerxes the first sent a huge army to conquer Greece. The Persians met the Greeks at Thermopylae a narrow mountain pass and 480 BC The near past allowed to Greeks to hold off the Persian for three days until a Greek traitor show the Persians away over the mountains learning of the betrayal the spartan later will you notice ordered with drawl rocky and 300 spartan men stay behind and gave their lives to delay the Persians

Question 43

Describe the battle of Salamis

Answer 43

When the Persians arrived in Athens they found it had been evacuated to the island of Salamis. Xerxes burned Athens but then had his fleet of ships broken and defeated by the Athenians and what is called the first major naval battle in history

Question 44

Turning point in world history

Answer 44

Xerxes defeat in Greece

Question 45

Cycle of Greek govt

Answer 45

``` Monarchy Aristocracy Oligarchy Tyranny Democracy Oligarchy tyranny back to democracy ```

Question 46

Monarchy

Answer 46

Rule by one king

Question 47

Aristocracy

Answer 47

Rule by few best | Educated and advanced

Question 48

Oligarchy

Answer 48

Rule by few rich

Question 49

Tyranny

Answer 49

Rule by one man with selfish intent

Question 50

Democracy

Answer 50

Rule by the many poor it common ppl

Question 51

On of the only city states to not go through the cycle

Answer 51

Sparta

Question 52

What kind of a state was Sparta

Answer 52

Regimented military state

Question 53

Three social classes of Sparta

Answer 53

1. ruling class 2. Middle class 3. Slaves (helots)

Question 54

Helots

Answer 54

Generally conquered peoples forced to work the land about the Spartans trained relentlessly for military purposes

Question 55

Describe the schooling for boys I’m Sparta

Answer 55

Physical training begins at age 7

Question 56

In Sparta men who couldn’t fulfill military service for a lifetime were

Answer 56

Of no use to the spartan state that demanded absolute subordination of its citizens

Question 57

What did the Spartans do to weak babies

Answer 57

Left on the mountainside to die

Question 58

Why didn’t Sparta contribute much to history

Answer 58

Bc a governmentally regimented state often results in intellectual stagnation.

Question 59

What league is Sparta form

Answer 59

The Peloponnesian league | An alliance of several city states in the Peloponnesus