Greece Flashcards

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Colonizationan

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To establish a colony

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Peninsula

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  1. an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
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Polis

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City town or village, which was the focus and surrounding countryside. Small but very independent. Citizens assembled in polis for political, social, religious activities

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City-state

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A city that controls the surrounding area, countryside, towns, etc.

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Acro polis

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Acropolis

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Sovereign units

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Hoplites

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Non aristocratic soldiers who fought in a group- safety and success depended on solidarity and discipline… Anyone who could afford weapons and armor could join… They would challenge aristocratic control of the city-states

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Phalanx

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Metropolis

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The mother city or parent state of a colony, the chief city

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Settlement

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The act or state of setting or the state of being settled

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aristocracy

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A govt or state ruled by elite or privileged upper class

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Aristocrat

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Member of aristocracy

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Tyrant

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Took power in an unconstitutional (illegal) was because they were oppose to domination by a few aristocratic oligarchies … Aristocrats, new rich from trade and industry, and poor peasants became tyrants

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Oligarchy

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Govt. ruled by a few

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Sparta

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City state on souther Peloponnesian peninsula, army conquered large territory, conquered neighboring city-states, wanted more land

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Helots

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Lower class that served as salve labor for the Spartans

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Military state

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a state totally focused on war

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Reforms

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To form again

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Lycurgus

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Spartan lawgiver… Founder of spartan constitution, military institutions, and educational system

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Spartans

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People of Sparta

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Ephors

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( Spartan) Group elected each year and responsible for education of youth and conduct of all citizens

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Assembly

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A group of persons gathered together for a purpose… Govt. legislative body… Voted on issued put before it by council

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Athens

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Unified pols on peninsula of Attica

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Attica

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Location of Athens

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Archon
Ruler
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Solon
Aristocrat reformer ... Given power by Ariostocrats to fix political/ economic crisis
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Pisistratus
Tyrant of Athens
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Foreign policy
Helped Athenian trade, popular with mercantile, industrial classes... Policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives
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Council of 500
Supervised foreign affairs and treasury... Proposed all laws voted on my assembly
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Democracy
Form of govt in which the ruling power is in the hands of all people
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Mycenaeans
First Greek civilizations ( war like, dominated Greece, disappeared
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Asia Minor
A peninsula in w Asia between black ad Mediterranean seas
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Mercenary
Hired to Serve in foreign army
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Decrees
A formal and authoritative order
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Prosperity
A successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects
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Latfundia
Large agricultural states that used slaves ... Peasant farm
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Network of trade
Silk Road connected china and Rome
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Silk Road
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Agricultural surplus
Extra food, crops