Chapter 8 Of World Civ.

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Minoan-Mycenaean Age

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Lasted about 2000 bce. To the conquest of the Greek peninsula by invaders in the 110's

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Hellenic Period

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Extended from the time of Homer to the conquest of Greek city-states by the Macedonians in the mid-300s. It includes the classical age, when Greek philosophical and artistic achievements were most impressive

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Hellenistic Age

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The final blossoming of Greek, cultural innovation, lasting from about the 300 BCE to the first century CE. During this age, immigrant Greeks I reacted politically and intellectually other peoples to produce a hybrid filter that extraordinary influential in the arts and science center of both western and Asian civilization

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Minoans

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Lived on the island of Crete, contributed to the formation for Greek Civilization, masters of a wide-ranging maritime empire. Led by King Knossos.

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Megarom

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The great walls of Grecian palaces, rectangular hall, where the kings and warriors met to discuss

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Iliad/odyssey

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2 epics of ancient Greece written by the magnificent poet Homer in the 8th Century BC

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Homer

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A great Poet that lived on ancient Greece

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Hellespont

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A hill commanding the entrance into the straits

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Dorians

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Nomads from the north that had wars with and over through the Mycenaeans

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Dark age of Greece

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Arts and craft declined, even the ability to write was lost. After the war with the Dorians and the Mycenaeans

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Polis

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The community of adult free persons who make up a town or any inhabited place, sometimes referred as a City state.

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Monarchy

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Rule by a single person

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Aristocracy

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Rule by those who are born to leading families, there for qualify to rule

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Oligarchy

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Rule by a few people, usually these people are the wealthiest

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Democracy

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Is rule by the people

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Cleusthenes

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Over through an aristocrat, he is an aristocrat and he is the true founder of the Athenian democracy. Believed that the people should have the last word in their own government

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Ekklesia

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Was the general "town meeting" of all free male Athenians, called on to make critical decisions affecting the future of the polis

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Boule

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A council of 500 men chosen to serve 1 year, served as a day to day legislature and executive branch. Making and implementing policies

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Deme

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The basic political subdivision of the the polis, modern day ward

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Ostracism

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"Pushing out" of a citizen who would not conform to the will of his neighbors. They would be sentenced to 10 years of uncitizinship and exiled

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Messenian Wars

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A war with the Spartans and the Messenians and Spartans won

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Ephors

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Spartans group elected officers

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Persian war

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The 1st one with Athens and they won against Darius I

The second one was when Xerxes waged war on the Greeks and battled multiple city-states. Xeroxes lost. Sparta and Athens were apart of this

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Pericles

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The leader of the Delian league, created by the Athens.

Responsible for bringing conflict with Corinth

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Peloponnesian War

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Sparta vs Athens basically. A deadlock war, none could deal the finishing blow and long truces were made enough for the combatants to regain their strength. Athens tried to attack Sicily, but failed to and sparta destroyed them in naval combat with the help of Persia. Both losses for all

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Alexander the Great

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Son of King Philip of the Macedonian empire, in his 13 year rule, conquered most of the world know to Greeks. Bold and vigor in his conqusst

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Hellenistic kimgdoms

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The states that were separated from Alexander the Greats territory by his generals.

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Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

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A general names Ptolemy captured Egypt, which was the richest of all the provinces. The Greeks took up the lifestyle of the Egyptians and the Egyptians remained as peasants and slaves

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Seleucid Kingdom of Persia

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The successor of Persia, many Greeks came and inhabited the land, but it was too large to govern and when the romans invaded ,most of the east was already lost

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Antigonid Kingdom

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Founded by a general, claimed the old.Macedonian homeland and some of Greeks land, the rest of Greece was divided in to city states, all the land was captured by the romans in the middle of 100 BCE

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Myceneasns

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The first people to speak Greek