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26 Cards in this Set
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bards
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-singing storytellers
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phalanx
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-rows of foot soldiers using their shields to form a wall
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tyrant
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-seized power and ruled the polis single-handedly
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homer
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-blind poet
-lived during the 700s b.c. -composed two famous Greek epics the iliad and odyssey |
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Zeus
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-he chief god
-thought to rule the sky, weather, and thunderstorms |
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Sparta
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-became the most famous of the Greed city-states
-revolved around the army -men had to go into military at age 7 -women trained in gymnatics, wrestling, and boxing -kings governed Sparta -they were Olympic athletes |
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peisistratus
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-took over the government of Athens
-divided large estates among landless farmers and extended citizenship to men who didnt own land -provided the poor with loans and put them to work buliding temples and other public work |
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parthanon
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-temple of Athenia
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Darius 1
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-Darius defeated the Ionians
-punished the mainland Greeks for helping the rebels |
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marathon
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-coastal plain 25 miles north of Athens
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draconian
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-use to describe something that is very cruel and severe
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Ostracism
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-System where citizens wrote the name of a politician on a piece of baked clay called an ostracon.
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Helen of Troy
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-wife of a Mycenaean king
-gets kidnapped by a Trojan named Paris and is taken to Troy |
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Persia
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-had the strongest military power in the ancient world
-their armies were led by Cyrus II |
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Thermopylae
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-a mountain pass north of Athens
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Trojan Horse
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-a huge hollow wooden horse used to trick the Trojans by the Mycenaeans
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Attica
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-northeast of the Peloponnesus on a penninsula of central Greece
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Ionia
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-the west coast of Asia Minor and its adjoining islands
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Crete
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-an islan southeast of the Greek mainland
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Acropolis
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-fortified hill
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Why was the period between 461 to 429 called the Golden Age?
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because of the achievements in arts and science
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why was trade and communication difficult in Greece?
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because of the mountains
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how did solon prompt the growth of industry in Athens?
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he made the fathers teach their sons a skill and extend citixenship to foreigners
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Delian League
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-Athens persuaded most of the city-states but not Sparta, to ally against the enemy
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what year did the minoans civilization flourished?
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between 2500b.c. and 1450b.c.
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Essay:
Compare & Contrast Athenian & Spartan Educational Sytems. |
-Boys in Athens were put in school at age 7 & they graduated at age 18 & girls were taught how to weave & cook by their mothers.
-Boys in Sparta were trained to be in the military at age 7 where the learned to read, write, and use weapons & girls were trained for gymnastics, wrestling, and boxing. -The boys in Sparta & Athens were 7 when they began their education & the girls were trained to do something important. |