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Ancient Greece
HST 352 Mid Term Flash Cards
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03/01/2010
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Ahhiyawa
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Another name for Greeks, given to the people by the Hittites.
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Sea Peoples
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Thalassocracy
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Minoan Crete
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Sir Arthur Evans
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Discovered in 1899 the palace of Cnossus in Crete.
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Linear A Tablets
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Writing system comprised of specific signs that stood for the sounds of spoken words and syllables. Preserved on small clay tablets and used mainly for economic and administrative records.
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Linear B Tablets
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More developed form of writing and record keeping. Tablets demonstrate a relationship between Crete and Greece as well as illuminated the fact that Myceneaen palaces were ruled by kings.
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Mycenaean Greece
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Heinrich Schliemann
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Excavated the ruins of Troy in 1870 and then a large palace in Mycenae.
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Shaft Graves
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Deep rectangular pits where bodies were lowered. Used in Mycenae and reveal most information that we have about early Mycenean civilization.
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Tholos Tombs
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A large stone chamber that noble families would place their deceased in. Shaped like a beehive
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Wanax
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A warrior king.
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Redistributive Economies
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Food and products from the palace's lands and from private farms and herds, paid as taxes, were collected and stored in the palace. The income both sustained the palace and was redistributed to the villagers as rations and wages.
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Treasury of Atreus
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Trojan War
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Ionian Migration
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Phoenicians
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Basileus
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Greek form of the term "qasireu" translated as "king". Designates the prominent figure in a state.
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Dactylic Hexameter
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Form of verse that features 6 finger measures. Long-Short-Short.
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Oikois
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Smallest unit of Dark Age society. Means "home" and was considered the center of a person's existence. Every member was preoccupied with its preservation. Signified not only the home, but the family, livestock, land, and all other property goods.
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Homer
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Wrote epic poetry. The Iliad.
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Hesiod
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Wrote wisdom poetry. Theogoney, Works and Days.
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Dorian Invasion
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Old Smyrna
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Geometric Greek
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Kerameikos
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Archaic Period
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Featured a population rise which lead to greek colonization and trade across Mediterranean. Festivals, shrines, and oracles grew in importance as well.
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Polis
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city state
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Hoplite Phalanx
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Soldiers line up shoulder to shoulder in a tight formation. Seen from the front a phalanx looks like a nearly solid wall of shields.
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Synoecism
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The process by which a demos became unified.
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Metropolis
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Tyranny
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First serious challenge to the oligarchic rule that characterized greek civilization.
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Laconia
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Messenian Wars
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Aristoi
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Arete/Timé
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Miletus
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Al Mina
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Cyrene
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Naucratis
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Thales of Miletus
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Parmenidos of Elea
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Lycurgus
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Archilochus of Paros
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Sappho of Lesbos
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Tyrtaeus of Sparta
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Delphi
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Olympia
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Stasis
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Solon of Athens
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Solon of Athens
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Pisistratus
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Harmodius
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Aristogeiton
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Cleisthenes
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Krypteia
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Physis
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Helots
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Ionian Rebellion
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Marathon
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Salamis
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Ostracism
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Ahura Mazda
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Achaemendis
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Cyrus I
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Darius I
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Xerxes I
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Satrap
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Proskynesis
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Medizing
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Themistocles
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Long Walls
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Trireme
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Thermopylae
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Piraeus
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Plataea
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Delian League
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Hellenotamiae
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Proxenoi
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Cleruchies
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Pericles
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Megarian Decree
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Archidamian War
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Funeral Oration
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Peace of Nicias
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Cleon
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Brasidas
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Melos
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Affair of the Herms
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Alcibiades
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Sicilian Expedition
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Decelea
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Arginusae
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Lysander
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Aegospotami
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Entasis
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Rule of the Four Hundred
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Socrates
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Harmosts
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Aristophanes
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Herodotus
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Thucydides
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Decarchies
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Syracuse
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Barbaroi
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Tyranny of the Thirty
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