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Chapter 7: Greece, Home of Beauty Flashcards

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what are the two prominent regions of ancient Greece?

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Attica and the Peloponnesus

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what is the name given to the earliest cultures of Europe that developed along the shores and islands of the Aegean sea?

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Aegean civilization

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Who were the first important European civilization after the flood?

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The Minoans

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4
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which people group lived on the Greek mainland?

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Mycenaeans

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Who invaded the Mycenaeans?

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The Dorians

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What was the name given to the Mycenaeans, who escaped to Asia, minor and Attica?

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Ionians

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What was the name given to the group of people formed from the fusion of the Mycenaeans and the Dorians?

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Hellenes

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Who had more influence on the thinking of the people of Greece than any other poet? What were his works called?

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Homer; the Iliad and the odyssey

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name some of the Olympian gods. Name one of the heroes.

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Zeus, Artimus, Athena, Aries, Aphrodite, hera; Achilles

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10
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from what word do we derive the word politics?

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Polis

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name the structures found in a Greek city state

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The acropolis, the agora, the gymnasium, and the amphitheater

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12
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what were the people called who did not speak Greek?

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Barbarians

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13
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When was the first recorded date of the Olympic games?

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776 BC

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What Persian king caused the Ionian revolt? What three cities refused this kings demands?

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Darius I; Athens Eritrea and Sparta

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15
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what are the dates for the Greco Persian wars?

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490 to 479 BC

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what battle proved that the Persians could be defeated, and brought great prestige to Athens?

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Battle of marathon

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17
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Who who is Darius’s son?

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Xerxes the first

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18
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what battle was the first major naval battle in history?

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Battle of Salamis

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Who tricked Xerxes into fighting a naval battle in the narrow straight between the mainland in the island of Salamis?

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Themistocles

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20
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Whos defeat was a turning point in history?

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Xerxes

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21
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what is a monarchy? what were the two bodies that advised the Greek monarch?

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rule by one; Council Elders and Assembly

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22
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what is rule by the best?

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aristocracy

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23
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what is rule by the few rich?

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oligarchy

24
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what is tyranny?

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bad one man rule

25
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what is democracy?

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rule by the many poor

26
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what was the Spartans chief accomplishment?

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peloponnesian league

27
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who’s code of laws were merciless? who’s code of laws were the opposite?

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Draco; Solon

28
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who was the first tyrant of athens?

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Peisistratus

29
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which tyrant imposed ostracizing?

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Cleisthenes

30
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who brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure?

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Pericles

31
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what is the age of Pericles referred to as?

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“Golden age of Greece”

32
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what league was formed in expectation of Persian trouble?

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Delian League

33
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what were the dates for the Peliponnesian war?

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431-404BC

34
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what king determined to conquer all of Greece?

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Philip II

35
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What league did Philip II create?

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Hellenic League

36
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Who was Phillip II son? who was his teacher?

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alexander the great; aristotle

37
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when did alexander cross over the Hellespont?

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334BC

38
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after what battle was alexander’s kingdom split?

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Ipsus

39
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what three dynasties resulted from alexander’s empire?

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ptolemies, seleucids, antigonids

40
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when did ancient Greece flourish?

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700s-338 BC

41
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what is a well educated slave who was charged with a boys manners and morals?

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pedagogue

42
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what is the greatest Athenian temple?

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Parthenon

43
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who was remembered as the Greek father of history?

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Herodotus

44
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who was the first great Greek poet?

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Homer

45
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What writer was famous for his fables?

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Aesop

46
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who discovered many important mathematical concepts in geometry?

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pythagoras

47
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who developed the theory that all matter is composed of atoms?

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democritus

48
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who is known as the Father of Medicine and is famous for his oath?

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Hippocrates

49
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which early philosophers where relativists?

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sophists

50
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who began the search for absolutes?

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socrates

51
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Who attempted to find an explanation for the obvious order, design, and purpose in the universe and wrote the republic?

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Plato

52
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Who concluded that the order of the universe must’ve come from God?

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Aristotle

53
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who was famous for his philosophy of Stoicism?

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Zeno

54
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who was famous for epicureanism?

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Epicurious

55
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what language became the common language of the known world?

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koine greek

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