Greece Flashcards
(22 cards)
Basic unit of Greek civilization
City states
Polis
Geared towards warfare
Warriors
Not a lot of art/culture
Sparta
First democratic concierges
Only men were citizens
Athens
Goal of Persians was to conquer Greeks along Asian minor
Made Greeks work w one another
Persian Wars
Sparta’ ver of a defense team against Persia
431-404 BC
Pelopponesia wars
Predicted an eclipse
“The world is made of orange”
Thales
Wanted to explain history without membtions of gods
Herodotus
Marathon
490 BC
The messenger to alert all of Greece about the win
Socrate’s disciple
An idealist
Writes in dialogue/ memorable stories
Plato
Empiricist
Leading thinker in every field except math
Everyone Always assumed he’s right
Aristotle
Came down from Macadon in 338 and conquered most of Greece except for Sparta
Provided political stability to keep Greek culture thrive
Leaves Kingdom to Alexander the Great
Phillip of Macadon
Likes the Iliad and aspires to be like the heroes in the book
After learning Persian War; he led army to Persia. To right this wrong
CreTed the Hellenistic age all over ancient world
After death his kingdom separated into Hellenistic Kingdoms
Alexander the Great
New name for Mesopotamia
Seleunides
New name for Egypt
Ptolomides
Many cities named after Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Anticchus IV
Forced Greek culture on Jews resulting in a revolt of the Maccabees in 187
Thought process to pursue pleasure and avoid pain
Epicurealism
Orderly and rational place that is world/ conform to it
Stoicism
Interested in machines such as pulleys and levers
Archimedes
Accomplished warriors but their Wars were so destructive eventually resulted in dark age
Loved war and hunting
Nonexistent written collection of 300 yrs
Mycenaean Civilization
Earliest center of civilization in Aegean region
Centered on the island of Crete
Language is called Linear A
Cultured and sophisticated people
Minoan Crete
Blind bard/traveling port that sings songs of earlier age
Homer
