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Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean
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History
7th Grade
05/12/2012

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Was greece unified?
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no, based on city states
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By 500 BCE, what was the largest of the Greek city states?
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Athens
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Why was Athens important?
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militarily powerful, cutural center, only democratic state
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When was the Greek Expansion>?
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2000-1200 BCE
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Why did the greek expansion happen?
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little gross for large herds, no major rivers, shift from herding to farming
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What was early agriculture like in Greece?
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barley in the low lands, olive trees in the foothills, grapes on the hillsides
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Why was greek agriculture so limited as far as where it could be?
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the rockiness of the area limited what could be grown and how much room there was to grow the food
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Who were the phoenicians?
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seafaring people who began to expand out from their base in the eastern Mediterranean around 900 BC
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When did the phoenicians establish carthage?
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814 BCE
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When did greek and phoenician expansion occur?
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800 to 500 BCE
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Who were the first people to circumnavigate Africa?
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the phoenicians
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Where did the Greeks get their alphabet?
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the phoenicians
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When did classical greece emerge?
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750 BCE
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When did classical greece emerge?
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750 BCE
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How long did classical greece flourish?
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400 years about
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What did the greeks call themselves and why?
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the Hellenes, after their mythical founder hellene
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About how many people occupied Greece?
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2-3 million
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About how many city states were there?
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100
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About how many male citizens were in each city state?
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between 500 adn 5000
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olympic games
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Every four years the city-states temporarily suspended their fighting to participate in sporting events
This tradition began in 776 BC
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Between 3500 and 1750 BCE, what was the most prominent large scale trend?
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the globalization of civilization
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What was the political state of Greek city states like?
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free men running the state affairs, equality before the law, participation of citizen varied on cities
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Early on in Greece, who had rights to full citizenship?
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the rich/elites
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What were the rights of full citizens?
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speaking and voting in the public assembly, access to opublic office, fighting in the army
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By what year were almost all of the greek citizens involved in the government in Athens?
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540 BCE
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Who broke the hold of aristocrats on polotics in Athens?
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a reformist leader named Solon
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What did solon do once he made athens more democratic?
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debt slavery was abolished, access to public office was widened, all citizens could participate in the assembly
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What type of democracy did athens have?
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direct democracy
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Who was NOT allowed to participate in athenian democracy?
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women, slaves and foreigners
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What is sparta famous for?
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extreme miltiary discipline
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Who made up a large amount of Spartan population?
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helots
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helots
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conquered people who lived in slave like ocnditions
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Where was most of the spartan authority?
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in the council of elders
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the council of elders
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28 men over the age of 60, wealthy and influential, served for life
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Where did Miletus live?
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Athens
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Who was Miletus?
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the earliest greek philosopher, and the first to believe in rational explaintions of natural phenomena
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who was socrates?
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a greek philosoher, teacher of plato, didn't write anything down
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When did socrates live?
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469-399 BCE
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What was socrate's method?
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ask a question without revealing his own views
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What were most of socrates teachings about?
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virtual excllence
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Who was plato?
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a greek philosopoher, student of socrates, teacher of aristotle, wrote down socrates teachings
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When did plato live?
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429-347 BCE
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Who founded the academy in Athens?
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plato
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Who was Aristotle?
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a greek philosopher, student of plato, tutored alex the great
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where was Aritstole born?
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macedon
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what were aristotle's main teachings?
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people had to study hard to gain control of desires, emphasized observation of the natural world and social analysis of the assumptions of logic and arguments
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When did Aristotle live?
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384-322 BCE
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