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Ancient Greece - The Beginning of the West
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10th Grade
10/05/2010

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Minoan
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foundational classical civilization
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Mycencan
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Western ingenuity
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Dorian
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Culture/Language
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Dark Ages
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time of cultural assimilation
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Trojen War
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Dark Ages
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The Dorian peoples lived during the
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Dark Ages
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Archaic Period
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democracy, philosophy, art, theatre, poetry
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Homer/Greek alphabet
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Archaic Period
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Greek city-states
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Archaic Period
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Reform of Solon in Athens
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Classical Period
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Cleisthenes
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creates constitution for Athens during Classical Period
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Ionian Revolt
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Classical Period
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Persia developed
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a major empire and cultural tradition
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Alexander the Great
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spread Greek culture
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Rome was influenced by
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Greece
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Aristocrats
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Greece and Rome
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Roman Empire
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Big territory and population
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Greek and Roman religion
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was non-existent
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Philosophy, science, and art
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classical Mediterranean
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Greek and Roman economics
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commercial agriculture, trade, slavery
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patriarchal family?
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somewhat different
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Rome's decline
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lost territory/suffered economic reversals
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later Roman Empire
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invaded until collapsed
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Greco-Roman Culture
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regions and countries who culturally (and so historically) were influenced by the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans
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Revolution
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a drastic change in ways of thinking and behaving
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Mediterranean Trade/Agriculture
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the Mediterranean Sea —the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples; vital; easy; wheat, olive, figs, citrus, lemons, grapes, rice
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Greece
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a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil; ancient Greece: a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE
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Citizen Soldier
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military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid or committed to a fixed term of service
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Republic
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a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
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Moral Law
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sense of behavioral conduct that differentiates intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good and bad
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Philosophy
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any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
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Classical Art
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the style, traditions, and qualities of ancient times, especially of ancient Greece and Rome
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Democracy
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the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
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Government
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the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
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Alexander the Great
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king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria
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Socrates/Plato/Aristotle
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ancient Athenian philosophers; taught by each other; Aristotle tought Alexander the Great
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Epic poem
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a long narrative poem about a hero
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Iliad/Odyssey
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Greek epic poems (attributed to Homer) describing the Trojan War and the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy; foundational literature
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Arête
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excellence; In Iliad and Odyssey, used mainly to describe heroes and nobles and their mobile dexterity
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The Parthenon
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the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of Doric architecture
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Phalanx
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any closely ranked crowd of people; a body of troops
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Solon
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statesman
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Xerxes
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a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty; planned to conquer Greeks; made huge army and thought he was going to win, when the Greek's tricked him and they lost
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Delian League
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name of the alliance of several Greek city-states
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Peloponnesian War
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a war between athens and sparta.. sparta won but didn't achieve political unification
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Socratic Method
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a method of teaching by question and answer; used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students
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Stoicism
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an indifference to pleasure or pain; philosophy following the teachings of Zeno; founded in Athens
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Trojan War
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Beginning of history for the Greeks, especially as a whole.
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Solon
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ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages; attempted to reform Athens
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Democracy in Greece - Why?
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the upper-class Athenians were very involved in politics and had frequent conversations about about the affairs of state. since greece was split up into city-states citizens felt that the state was theirs. this is probably why democracy developed in Greece instead of a political system where a council or one person rules.
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Greek in West?
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the founding fathers were extremely conscious of Greek politics. designers of public buildings in the US hate dutifully copied Greek models, seen in the Lincoln Memorial and most state capitals. Plato and Aristotle are thought of as the founders of philosophy seen today, and skillful teachers still rely on the Socratic method. The Iliad is seen as the foundation of Western literature. Greek history past has been a part of the standard Western education to see these links to our world today.
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myth vs legend
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myth: rooted in history
legend: a story that is absolute fantasy
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3 civilizations?
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Dorian, Minoan, Mycenaean
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polis
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city-state
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first Greek state
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Mycenae
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oligarchy
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ruled by few
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thermopylae
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a greek force of 7,000 held off the Persian army of 180,000 for two days
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oedipus rex author
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sophocles
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Herodotus
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wrote History of the Persian Wars
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Plato said
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live a moral life
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Alex and Greats conquests created what era?
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Hellenistic
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Eratosthenes
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Earth is round and calculated its circumference
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Epicurus said
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happiness is the goal of life and you gotta pursue pleasure
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Iliad and Odyssey
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epic poems
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Athens government after Cleisthenes
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Athenian democracy
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"the unexamined life is not worth living"
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Socrates
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REALLY AWESOME HISTORIAN?!
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Thucydides
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Alex the Great brought
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ART/Culture
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after Alex's death what countries emerged
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Macedonia, Syria, Pergamum, and Egypt
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Elements was about
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spheres and cylinders
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Stoicism
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happiness is the goal man.
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hellenism
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greek culture that flourished between 800 and 400 bce
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epicureanism
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based upon the teachings of Epicurus; A love or knowledge of enjoyment, especially of good food and drink; devoted to pleasure
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Phillip II
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a ruler of Macedon; founder of centralized kingdom; later conquered Greece
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