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39 Cards in this Set
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Who founded Stoicism? What is Stoicism? |
Zeno - everyone should just do their job. |
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What did Plato believe? |
Deductive reasoning, that there are absolute truths, de ja vu, questioned what was real and not real. |
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What did Aristotle believe? |
Inductive reasoning, Syllogism, cause and affect, that reality is only what is observed, man is a social animal, "Golden Mean" |
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What did Socrates believe? |
Socratic method (Q&A), intellectual freedom, must have good people to have good citizens, civil disobedience |
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What did Epicurus believe? |
YOLO - do what makes you happy. |
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Who was the Father of Medicine? |
Hippocrates. |
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Who stated: "Not in ink, but in blood and wrote a harsh system of laws? |
Draco, w/ "Draconian Law", tyrant |
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What did Sir Arthur Evans excavate? |
Knossos, Crete (Minoan civilazation) |
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Who won the Peloponnesian War? |
Sparta. |
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What was repeated to Darius everyday to remind him of his seek of revenge? |
"Master, remember the Athenians." |
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What field of study did Herodotus and Thucydides belong to? |
History. |
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What was Alexander's most enduring achievment? |
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Who said "know thyself" and what does this phrase mean? |
Socrates. |
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How did tyrants gain power in Ancient Greece? |
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What is Solon known for? |
1) abolish debt slavery |
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What is Cleisthenes known for? |
1) Creates Athenian Assembly
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What is Pericles known for? |
Leader during Greece's Golden Age- 1)Pol. Offices open to all |
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What is a hilltop fortress? |
Acropolis. |
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What was the league in alliance against Persia? |
The Delian League. |
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Where was the Delian League's money kept? |
Athens. |
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Where was the Shrine of Apollo? |
Delphi. |
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Which great orator practiced speaking with marbles in his mouth? |
Demosthenes. |
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Who were some famous Greeks great at geometry? |
Pythogorus - pythagorean theorom, Euclid, Archimedes |
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Where did the Spartans slow down Xerxes? |
Thermopylae. |
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Who were Aeschylus and Sophocles? |
Drama. Aeschylus – Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, The Persians Sophocles – Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra
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Who was the greatest sculptures of ancient Greece? |
a. Phidias |
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Who wrote famous fables? |
Aesop. |
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Who won and lost the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars? |
Greece won the Persian wars, and Sparta won the Pelo. wars. |
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What physical setting broke Greece's sense of unity? |
Scattered mountains. |
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Which civilazation developed the undeciphered Linear A writing? |
Minoan. |
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Paintings on wet plaster walls... |
Frescoes. |
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Were the Minoans advanced? |
Yes - they had running water, |
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Where was the center of the Hellenistic world? |
Alexandria. |
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Was the steam engine a Hellenistic achievement? |
No. |
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The Persian war resulted in... |
the Delian League. |
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Which goddess is the Parthenon built to honor? |
Athena. |
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This type of government has the people making the decisions - |
Direct democracy. |
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A government where a few people are in control is an - |
Oligarchy. |
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This government has a wealthy upper class in control - |
Aristocracy. |
