Grecede Test Flashcards

(48 cards)

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Father of democracy

A

Clethenes

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Peloponnesian war

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Sparta vs Athens

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3
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Battle of Thermopylae

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Small army of Greece held of Persians for 3 days. King Leonidas(300 Spartans)

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Battle of Salamis

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Athenian navy crushes Persian navy

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5
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Oracle of Delphi

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Priestess who spoke for apollo(told future)

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6
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Persias first conquered the city states of what region?

A

Ionia

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7
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First Persian king to unite Persia

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King Cyrus II

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8
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Persian King who decided to punish Athens

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Darius I

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9
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Pericles

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Athenian leader during golden age

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10
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Types of drama performed by the Greek

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Tragedies,Comedier

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Themistocles

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Athenian general who defeated the Persians at the battle of salamis

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12
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Whose honor is Greeks dramas for

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Dionysus(god of wind, fertility, and theater

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13
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Socrates

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Father of Philosophy, question everything

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14
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Plato

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Founded the school, wrote the republic

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15
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Aristotle

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Father of science, tutored Alexander

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16
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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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17
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Father of history

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Herodotus

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18
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3 bodies surrounding Greece

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Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea

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19
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Hestia

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Goddes of home, family

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20
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Artemis

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Goddes of Hunting

21
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Apollo

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God of Prophecy,medicine,music

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Hephaestus

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Hermes

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Messenger god

24
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Who canceled the Olympics and when did it start again

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Theodusius(Christian Roman emperoar
1896 in Athens

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Greeks contributions
Democracy, philosophy, theater, alphabet, Olympics
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Minoans
First Greek civilization
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Theseus
Killed the Minotaur
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Helens
Locals of Greece
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Dorians
Illiterate Greeks, creates dark age
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Homer
Blind poet,wrote the odyssey and the Iliad
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Acropolis
Fortified hill
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Culture of Greek/persians(alexander
Hellenistic
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Hippocratic oath
Preserve life at all times
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Classical
Art style;idealism Classical Period;golden age of Greece
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Delian league
Military alliance by Athens
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Platea
Battle, Greeks win the Persian wars
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Battle of Salamis
Themistocles defeat Persian fleet
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Phalanx
Battle formation
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Hoplite
Volunteer soldiers
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King Xerxes
King of Persia,attacks Greece with huge fleet+army
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King Phillip
King of Macedonia, Alexanders father
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Symposium
“Bar” to drink
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Metropolis
Mother city state
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King Darius
King of Persia, wants to punish Athens
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Bard
Singing story tellers
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Agora
Public central square
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Polis
City state
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Atlas
Titan general, holds up the sky as punishment