Greece And Rome Flashcards
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Greek literature
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Epic poetry (Iliad and The Odyssey) Plays (drama, tragedy, comedy) (it was theater not drama though..)
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Greek war history
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Herodotus (The Persian War)
Thucydides (The Peloponnesian War)
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Greek Architecture
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Columns and Colonnades
Parthenon
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Greek arts
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Theater, sculpture, decorative pottery
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Greek government
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Democracy (Athens)
Oligarchy (Sparta)
Bureaucracy (Alexander the Great)
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Greece is a land of—–
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Mountain separated by deep valleys
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Greece (scarcity of good —– encouraged —– in eastern
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Scarcity of (good agricultural land) encouraged (seafaring) in eastern Greece
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Greece southern mainland did what for food
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They relied on farming became they had better agriculture
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Aegean background includes
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Minoan civilization
Mycenaean civilization
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Minoan civilization dates
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4000-1400 bc
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Minoan prosperity
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Based prosperity on extensive commerce
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Mycenaean civilization dates
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2000-1150bc
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Mycenaean prosperity
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Trade and warfare
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Peloponnesus
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Peninsula of southern Greece
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Who conquered the Peloponnesus
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Dorians
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Dorians caused what
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Ushered in dark age by conquering Peloponnesus
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Dark age
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1150-800 bc characterized by violence and instability
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Ionia
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Birthplace for Hellenic civilization
Present day turkey
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Greek civilization was dominated by—
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Athens and Sparta
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Direct democracy was first established when where
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507bc in Athens
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The age of Pericles dates
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460-429bc
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The Age of Pericles
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Zenith of Athenian society and the height of its democracy
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Athens became a world——-
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Commercial center and cosmopolitan city
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Sparta state
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Totalitarian and militaristic state
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Sparta depended on what kind of labor and to sustain what
Depended on slave labor to sustain its agriculture system
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Persians lost to who when
Persians lost to Athenians and their Greek allies in 490 (land battle of marathon)
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After the defeat of Persians what dominated Greek politics
Conflict between Athens and Sparta
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Peloponnesian War dates
431bc-404bc
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Peloponnesian War
The war devastated both Athens and Sparta (along with their Greek city-state allies)
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Greek organized war
Mycenae; Sparta
| Phalanx
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Athens v. Sparta
Sparta wins
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What happens after Sparta beats Greece
Sparta was still unable to unite the Greek city states
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What was a catalyst for the cal lose of the Greek city state alliance
Individualism
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Alexander the Great dates
356-323bc
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Alexander the Great established The-----
Hellenic Age
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Hellenic Age
The fusion of Greek culture with the east
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Alexander the Great conquered 3 major areas
Persia, Asia Minor, Egypt
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Hellenic period what replaced city states
Bureaucracy
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Greek (polis)
City states
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Greek academics
Philosophy, scientific method, ship building
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Greek law
Greek civilization established democracy
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Greek art
Architecture, sculpture, art, theater
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Rome was a ---- tribe
Latin tribe
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The Roman Empire lasted nearly how long?
Nearly 1000 years
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Roman Law
Rule of Law/Equality before the law
| Civil and contract law codes
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Roman architecture
Concrete, arch, roads, monumental buildings
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Roman engineering
Aqueducts and cisterns
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Roman literature
Virgil (Aeneid) and Ovid (metamorphoses)
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (ancient roman poet who wrote Aeneid)
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Ovid
Roman poet (he comes after Virgil)
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Iona conquered in---
557 bc
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The conquering of Iona started---
The Greco-Persian wars
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Rome consolidated a great republic on the -----
Italian peninsula
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After conquering the Italian peninsula-------
Rome created a great Mediterranean empire
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Rome extended Greek culture all the way to (3 places)
1. Western Europe
2. Near East
3. North Africa
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Roman republic dates
507-27bc
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Roman republic started after------
Etruscan control was overthrown
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Etruscan Civilization
People of Italy and Corsica before Roman Empire was established (origins of the civilization are lost)
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Roman society was divided based on
Class
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The divisions of class in Rome
Patricians (propertied class)
Plebeians (main body of Roman Citizens)
Slaves
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Roman government was based on-----
Consuls, the Senate, and the Centurial assembly
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Roman consul
The highest elected political office in Rome
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The roman army became
The most powerful military organization in the world
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Rome incorporated ---- culture in their society
Greek
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Rome fought against ----- in the Punic war
Carthage
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Romes expansion on resulted in----
A world republic
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The Dorian Invasion
The Dorian invasion is a concept devised by historians of Ancient Greece to explain the replacement of pre-classical dialects and traditions in southern Greece by the ones that prevailed in Classical Greece.
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Phoenicians became (in a way)
Carthage or the Carthaginians
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What ravaged the roman republic
1. Economic decline
2. Political decline
3. Civil war
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How long did the Roman Empire last?
5 centuries
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Name for "Roman Peace" and how long did it last
"Pax Roman" and it lasted for 2 centuries
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Pax roman dates
27bc-180ad (no wars in that time)
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By what time was Rome experiencing notable economic and political decline
By the end of the second century
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Caesar was assassinated in --
44bc
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Who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire and when
1. Augustus
| 2. 27bc
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Constantine
Acclaimed as emperor by the army at Eboracum (Modern-day York) after his father's death in 306 AD, Constantine emerged victorious in a series of civil wars against the emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become sole ruler of both west and east by 324 AD.
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Why did the Roman Empire split
In November of 284 A.D., Diocletian, a forceful Roman general, seized power and declared himself the new emperor. One of his earliest orders was to split the Roman Empire in two
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Immediate cause for the fall of the Roman Empire
Continuous barbaric invasion
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Internal factors that contributed to the fall of Rome
Political instability, decreasing farm production, inflation, excessive taxation, and military decline
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Roman Empire split between
East and west
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What barbarians would invade Rome
1. Goths
2. Vandals
3. Huns
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What was a factor "external" of politics that caused the Roman Empire to split
The rise of Christianity
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The great schism
The East–West Schism (sometimes called the Great Schism) is the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, which began in the 11th century.
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Romans continued Greek tradition in
Literature, art, sculpture, and the humanities
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Romans biggest contribution was
In the field of law
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Romans passed on monumental----
Architecture
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Details of Dorian invasion
"Dorian Invasion" was really a second migration, like that of the Achaeans, of non-Grecian folk from the heart of Europe. They were a race who had learned the use of iron, which had been scarcely, if at all, known to the Greeks before. And the superior armor and weapons of the new-comers enabled them to establish themselves through most of the Peloponnesus
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Greece to Rome
Some Greeks help Carthaginians fight the Romans, because the Greeks were afraid of the Romans. But the Carthaginians lost. The Romans were very angry at the Greeks, and they began to take Greece over as well.
