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Exam 2 Flashcards

Sparta and the Persian wars

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The son of King Darius; recaptures Egypt; invades Greece again; made the boat bridge

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Xerxes

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Mythic Spartan King (700-630 BCE); kickstarts the Spartan War; his father was either Heracles or Dorian Invaders

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Lycurgus of Sparta

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Reigned 530-522 BCE; Conquers Egypt the first time; dies doing so

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Cambyses the II, King of Persia

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Borders: Balkan mountains in the North, Aegan Sea in the South, Black Sea to East; Subjugated by Darius

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Thrace

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Tells Xerxes not to invade Greece, gets sent home; also the guy who said that Massagetai; known as Wise

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Artabanus

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Is sent to get Thrace back in 492; urges Xerxes to invade Greece; killed in 497

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Mardonius

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A series of naval invasions over three days during 2nd invasion; located in Northern Euboea, Greece

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Artemisium

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502 BCE: A revolt from Persia. A guy named Aristagoras is tasked with recapturing this place. He’s given 200 ships but he also fucks up the job and runs away. Histiaeus tattoos a message into a slaves head and sends it to A, who then plans a new revolt in this place. The revolt fails and A dies in thrace

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The revolt and Siege of Naxos

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The lieutenant governor of Miletus. He’s very ambitious, and his job is taken over by Aristagoras when he starts to rebel and is called back to the supervision of the Persian king

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Histiaeus

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Histiaeus’ replacement

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Aristagoras

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This is where the Persians dug their canal, which took three years

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Mt. Athos

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This was the Spartan’s government, which combined a kingship, oligarchy, and democracy

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Spartan Mixed constitution

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small kingdom centered along the Aegean Sea on the Northeastern part of the Greek Peninsula; served the Achaemenid Empire

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Macedonia

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Empire that developed out of the Hittites (1200 BCE); ruled by Croesus in the 550s; Colonies captured by Persia

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Lydia

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A battle where Greeks were outnumbered 7,000 to 300,000. They held their position against Persia for two days until they were betrayed

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Thermopylae

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Subjugated Thrace; did a lot of the expansion during the Persian war

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Darius the Great (521-486 BCE)

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Second tier citizens of Sparta, acted as contacts of outside world

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Perioikoi

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480 BCE: Greeks defeated the Persian fleet off of this island

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Battle of Salamis

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An icon! ruled during the overlordship of Xerxes and participated in Xerxes’ invasion of Greece

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Artemisia

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Classical expression of defiance (come and get [them])

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Molon Labe

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The main harbor of Athens, which leads to overseas colonization

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Piraeus

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An area captured by Cyrus. Google says they’re from Iran but I remember in class he mentioned Russia? Idk. Either way they’re from Central Asia

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massagetae

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Cyrus slaughters her entire delegation, and her son kills himself, but she is the one to kill Cyrus, beheading him

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Queen Tomyris

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The athenian general who succeeds Miltiades. He’s the one who leads the greeks to victory at Battle of Salamis

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Themistocles

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Spartan king who died standing against Persians at Thermopylae

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King Leonidas I of Sparta

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An emergency meeting in Greece after information about Persia and Mt. Athos emerges

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Congress at Corinth

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The guy who betrayed the greeks in hopes he would receive some reward from the Persians

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Ephialtes

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Where the second Persian invasion was decidedly ended

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Plataea

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Tattoos, piercings, worships the sun, wear costumes

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Persian Culture

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Captured by Cyrus, burned to the ground

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Sardis

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Croesus has a banquet for this man, attempting to fish for compliments. The guy says no and says that his son will die. Etc Etc basically a whole lesson in not cheating fate

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Solon the Wise

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Led by Aristagoras, a revolt in Persia. The revolt failed, and Sardis was burned because of it

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Ionian Revolt

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The first historian, probably made up like a large amount of what he says. Is especially racist towards cultures he doesn’t understand (hippos, animal people)

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Heroductus

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Reigned 560-546 BCE. The guy who pissed off Solon the Wise. Shows traits like Hubris, Impious, Rashness, and Ambition

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Croesus, king of Lydia

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Barbaroi

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barbarians

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The king who was assassinated by King Gyges because he made Gyges see his wife naked without his wife’s consent

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King Candaules (735-718 BCE)

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Tattoos

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Steganography

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“The people you eat with” in Sparta. It’s essentially a frat. A failure to secure a spot means you have to go into voluntary exile.

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Syssition

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A greek colony conquered by Lydian King Alyattes, but then Lydia ends up befriending Athens and this colony, so they’re chill

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Miletus

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The guy who ran and asked Sparta for help against the first Persian invasion.

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Pheidippides

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A community where you train from a young age, there is no economy, no class status, they eat tar essentially, and use laconic wit

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Spartan society

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A being that says prophecies

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Delphic Oracle

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First location of Persian revolt (10,000 men to 100,000 men). Where the Persians were defeated by the Greeks method of surrounding

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Marathon

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Secret Spartan Police aimed at instilling fear and terror in Helot communities by periodic attacks

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Krypteia

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This happened when Cyrus captured Babylon and the Median Empire

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Rise of Persia

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Ancient name of the narrow passageway between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara. The connecting boundary between Europe and Asia

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Hellespont

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A state whose power derives from its naval or commercial supremacy on the seas.

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Thalassocracy

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The foundation of the Persian empire. Attacked by Croesus

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Medes

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The like, head military general of Athens that helped the Athenians win battle of Marathon

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Miltiades

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The community Sparta took over and essentially enslaved

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Helots

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