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Greece Flashcards

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Knossos

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WHERE ruler of trading empire lived. Included houses for royal family, banquet halls, and working areas

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Shrines

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Areas did cater to the honor of gods

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Frescoes

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Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster 🖌

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Trojan War

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Took place in 1250. Conflict between Mycenae and Troy over economic rivalry (trading)

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Straits

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Narrow water passages

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Polis

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City state

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Acropolis

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High city

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Citizens

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Free residents

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Monarchy

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A government in which the hereditary ruler exercises central power

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Aristocracy

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Rule by a hereditary land owning elite

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Oligarchy

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Government where power is in the hands of a small, wealthy elite

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Phalanx

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A massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers

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Sparta

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Used to be Dorians. One of city states.

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Athens

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Located in Attica north of Peloponnesus

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Democracy

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Government by the people

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Tyrants

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People who gained power by force

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Legislature

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Lawmaking body

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Alliance

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Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense

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Pericles

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Created direct democracy and made it so there was council of 500

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Direct democracy

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Where citizens take part in day to day affairs or government

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Stipend

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Fixed salary

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Jury

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Panel of citizens who have the authority to make the final judgement in a trial

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Ostracism

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Where people can vote to banish someone away

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Philosophers

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Lovers of wisdom.

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Logic

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Rational thinking

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Rhetoric

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Art of skillful thinking

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Socrates

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Athenian stonemason and philosopher. Questioned people and democracy

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Plato

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Student of Socrates. Wrote books about Socrates.

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato. Suspicious of democracy. Sat up Lyceum

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Parthenon

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A temple dedicated to goddess Athena

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Tragedies

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Tells story of human suffering that usually ended in a disaster

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Comedies

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Humorous plays that mocked people or customs

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Philip II

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Conquered Greeks. Son of Alexander. Lived in Thebes. Admired Greek culture

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Assimilated

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Absorbed

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Alexandria

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City in Egypt

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Pythagoras

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Formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle

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Heliocentric

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The idea that we revolved around the sun

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Hippocrates

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Greek physician who studied illnesses and looked for cures

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