2Nd Test In World History Honors

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Minoan Greek Civilization

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Earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.E.

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Mycenaean Greek Civilization

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Civilization on the greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.E.

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Homer

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Blind poet who wrote the two epics: The Iliad and The Odyssey. Period named after him was the Homeric Age.

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The Iliad

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Homer's great epic that tells the story of the Trojan war.

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The Odyssey

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Homer's epic that tells the story of the greek hero Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan war.

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Trojan War

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War fought for 10 years with Troy over Helen, who was kidnapped. The war was won when the mycenaeans built a big wooden horse with their best soldiers inside. They gave the horse to the Trojans as a "gift" and that night the soldiers lept out and conquered Troy.

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Greek Democracy

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During about 650 B.C.E some city-states such as Athens developed forms of democracy. The Government in greek was kings but turned to democracy when everything started to fall apart with aristocrats.

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Polis

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Greek word for city-state, which devoloped around a central fort

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Acropolis

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A high hill that marked the center of ancient athens.

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4 Uniting Factors

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3 Disuniting Factors

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Athens

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No other city has contributed more to the civilization of mankind than Athens. It is the place where Socrates was born, Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and many others. It is the place that humanism and democracy were born. The intellectual light that Athens created will always be alive.

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Golden Age

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Era of cultural progress in Greece in the 400s B.C.E

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Sparta

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Lycurgus

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Spartan law maker that ordered the following practices: to bathe infants in wine to test and tougen skin, children subject to strict discipline, tought not to be scarred of dark, no to be picky abou food, and not to be moody or tearfull

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Persian Wars

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Conflicts between Greece and Persia

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Battle of Marathon

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Battle during the Persian wars when Persia invaded Greece

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Battle of Thermopylae

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Battle during the Persian Wars in which Spartan troops fought to the death against a much larger Persian force

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Battle of Salamis Bay

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Peloponnesian War

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War between Sparta and Athens that broke out in 431 B.C.E. and lasted for 27 years

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Socrates

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One of the most inportant thinkers of the new era. he was a Athenian who taught that udecation was the key to personal growth.

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Socratic Method

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Socrates way of teaching through questioning

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Plato

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A wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of Socrates's students. Founded first collage in Athens. Believed in the theory of forms.

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The Allegory of the cave

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Aristotle

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One of Plato's students in the academy. Believed every field of study had to be studied logically.

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Herodotus

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the first historian of the Western world

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Sophocles

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A writer of tragedies who defended many traditional Greek values

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Aristophanes

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The finest writer of Greek comedies, was known for his sharp wit.

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Sappho of Lesbos

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Alexander the Great

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