Term
| Two important battles of the Persian wars(and who won) |
|
Definition
| Battle of Thermopylae(Persians) and Straight of Salamis(Greeks) |
|
|
Term
| Who was the leader of Athens during the Persian Wars? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who were the leaders(father and son) of Persia during the Persian Wars? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| How many Persian wars were there? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Formal agreement between two(or more)nations of power to cooperate and come to each other's defense |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| After the Persian wars what city-state was the most infuential?Why? |
|
Definition
| Athens; They were the leaders in the Persian wars |
|
|
Term
| What alliance did Athens create during the Persian wars which grew in the years following?Why were the other city-states not so happy with it? |
|
Definition
| The Delian League--Because Athens was the leader of the alliance |
|
|
Term
| Why were the years following the Persian wars called "the golden age of greece"? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who was the leader of Athens during the golden age? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What is the time period between 460 BC and 429 BC called? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What Greek city-state fought Athens in a civil war? What was the name of this war? Who won? |
|
Definition
| Sparta/Peloponnesian War/Sparta(Allied with the Persians) |
|
|
Term
| Who was the foreign born woman who helped the leader of Athens govern? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Citizens participate in day to day law making and such |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Panel of citizens make final decisions on cases |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Athenian stonesmason and philosopher |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Was condemned for his teachings, what was his method? |
|
Definition
| Socrates, Socratic Method |
|
|
Term
| Socrates' student and a philosopher |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What book did Plato write and what was it written in? |
|
Definition
| The Republic and was written in dialogue |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What theory did Aristotle come up with? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Temple in Athens dedicated to the goddess Athena; the greatest example of Greek architecture still in tact |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Playwright who wrote Antigone, a tradgedy about moral values vs. the law |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Playwright who wrote the tradgedy, The Trojan Woman, which aimed to strip war of its glamour |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Historian who wrote about the Persian Wars and is called "the father of History"...what did he note in his research? |
|
Definition
| Herodotus...noted Bias and conflicting accounts |
|
|
Term
| Historian who beieved one should be free of bias and wrote about the Pelopanisian wars |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| plays that told stories of human suffering |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| humourous plays that mocked ppl and events |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Why did Plato reject democracy |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| what was the ideal government in Plato's Republic? |
|
Definition
| state should regulate all aspects of citizens lives and there would be 3 classes of ppl(Philosophers, Soldiers and workers) |
|
|
Term
| greek standards of beauty |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Where did the Minoans get their name? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Why did the minoans disappear? |
|
Definition
| Volcanic eruptions/tidal waves and Mycenaean invasion |
|
|
Term
| Who were an Indo-European people? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Where did the Mycenaeans conquer? |
|
Definition
| the Greek mainland and Crete |
|
|
Term
| What does the Aegean sea seperate? |
|
Definition
| Greece from Asia minor aka turkey |
|
|
Term
| Between what times did the mycenaeans dominate the Aegean world? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who was the Trojan war between? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What is the Bosporus straight? |
|
Definition
| Waterway between the Black sea and Aegean sea |
|
|
Term
| Who invaded greece after the Trojan war? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who wrote two Greek epics? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What were the two epics Homer wrote and who were they about? |
|
Definition
| Iliad-Achilles;Odyssey-Odysseus |
|
|
Term
| _______ weopens replaced bronze |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Massive formation of heavily armed foot soldiers |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who conquered all of Greece and united the city-states for the first time? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who was the father of Alexander the Great |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| who was Alexander the great's teacher? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Alexander's empire stretched from where to where? |
|
Definition
| Macedonia and greece to Egypt and Ancient India |
|
|
Term
| What was Alexander's most lasting achievement? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What is the main city and cutural center of Alexander's empire? |
|
Definition
| Alexandria, egypt(Libraray + Lighthouse) |
|
|
Term
| Who founded the school of stoicism? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Who discovered advances in math? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Wrote the book "elements" which is the basis for geometery |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Dicovered advances in astronomy and what was his theory called |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| ROund Earth and Accurately calculated the circumference of the earth |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Studied disease and cures;Hippocratic oath |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Unique version of a city-state |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| people who gain power by force |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Murder of a public figure usually for political reasons |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
