Greek Final Flashcards
(23 cards)
collection of separate lands where Greek-speaking people live. Includes mainland and about 2000 islands.
Geography of Greece
Moderate climate promotes outdoor life. Greeks spend much of their time outside.
Climate of Greece.
Indo-Europeans who settled on the greek mainland in 2000 BC
Mycenaeans
Was a sea trading and culture stolen from the mycenaeans
minoans
Fought by mycenaeans against the city of troy. Once thought to be fictional
Trojan War
A blind storyteller who wrote the Ilaid
Homer.
Greeks attribute human qualities to them
Greek gods and goddesses
Rule by a king
monarchy
rule by novelty
Aristocracy
Rule by a small group of powerfull merchants and artisans
Oligarchy
Rule by the people
Democracy
Intorduces democratic reforms
solon
Avoids major political unhevals through reforms.
Athens
isolated from much of greece. Builds military state
Sparta
Between greece and persian empire.
Persian war
Sparta and Athens at war. They signed truce
Peloponnesian war
Painting, Lyric poetry, Drama and tradgedy, comedy, and history
Greek/Athens art/culture
Believes in questioning, self examination of values and actions
socrates
Socrate’s student. Wrote “the republic”
Plato
Questioned the nature of the world, human beliefs, and knowledge
Aristotle
Who are the three major Greek philosophers
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
One of the world’s ggreates miltary generals, he created a vast empire that stretched from macedonia to egypt and from greece to part of India
Alexander the greate
A fusion of the ancient Greek world that of western asia, northeastern Asia, and Southwestern Asia.
Hellenestic Culture
