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Mycenaean |
The People who settled on the Greek mainland. |
They were warrior-herdsmen whose capital was a strong city surrounded by natural protective barriers with a well fortified wall. Their city-states were controlled by strong kings who controlled the surrounding villages and farmlands. |
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Minoans |
These people lived on the island of Crete and they are also known for the myth of the Minotaur. |
These people lived on the island of Crete. They taught other Greeks the value of sea-based trading. They are also known for the myth of the Minotaur. |
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Dorians |
These people came into Greece after the Trojan war and they were less advanced than all the other Greek groups. |
These people came into Greece after the Trojan war and led to its temporary decline. Under their rule the Greeks temporary lost the art of writing. They were less advanced than all the other Greek groups. |
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The Trojan War |
The Trojan War During the 1200s B.C.,the Mycenaeans foughtlocated in Anatolia. |
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Homer |
He is the greatest storyteller and poet who was a blind man. |
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Epics |
Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds. |
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Arete |
Virtue and Excellence. |
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Myths |
Traditional stories. |
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City State |
A city that has its own government. |
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Acropolis |
A market place on a fortified hilltop. |
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Tyranny |
When there is one ruler but the people have no rights at all. |
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Democracy |
Ruled by the people and when everyone has right in government. |
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Draconian |
Extreme cruelty or severity. |
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Forms of Government |
Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Direct Democracy. |
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Monarchy |
A single person ruled in a government. |
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Aristocracy |
A government ruled by a small group of noble. |
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Oligarchy |
State ruled by a small group of citizens. Few people rule. |
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Delian League |
The Several Greek city-states formed an alliance. |
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Citizen |
Someone who lives at one place. |
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Assembly |
When a group of people meet to do something. |
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Tyrants |
A cruel and oppressive rule. |
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Trireme |
A powerful warship with three banks of oars. |
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Terrain and Climate of Greece |
¾ of Greece is rugged, mountainous terrain. ¼ of Greek land is suitable for farming and climate is Mediterranean. |
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Who was the famous Mycenean hero of the Trojan War? |
Achilles. |
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Importance of Olive Oil |
Olive oil was a healthy source of dietary fat, it used in grooming and also as fuel for lamps and to anoint kings and athletes. |
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Trojan War: Basic Sequence of Events |
1. There is a great wedding and all the Gods and Goddesses are invited, except Eris. 2. Eris becomes angry and creates a golden apple for the fairest of the Goddesses. 3. Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite fight over the apple, so Zeus appoints Paris, a Trojan Prince to decide who gets it. 4. After considering various offers from each of the Goddesses, Paris chooses Aphrodite's offer- to have Helen, the most beautiful woman alive, to be his. 5. The Greeks lead an army to Troy to take Helen, who is married to the Spartan king. 6. For nine years they raid the surrounding countryside and kill Trojan heroes, but still cannot reach the walls of Troy. 7. The Greeks develop an idea, to leave a giant wooden horse as a gift for the Trojans to discover and bring in their city. 8. Once the horse is inside the city, the Greeks that have been hidden inside sneak out at night and open the gates. 9. Troy falls and the Greeks slaughter its people and destroy the temples. 10. On their voyage home, the Gods punish the Greeks for slaughtering so many Trojans and destroying sacred temples by creating a storm that destroys their entire fleet. |
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Polis |
A city state in ancient Greece. |
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Draco |
A nobleman who developed a legal code based on the idea that all Athenians were equal under law. |
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Spartans: Who they were, why they became a strong city-state? |
The Spartan shocked by helot's revolt so that dedicated to making themselves a strong city. |
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Helots |
Sparta defeat the Messenians of southern greece and kept them as slaves called Helots. |
Peasants forced to stay on the land they worked.(slaves) A peasant bound to the land in the society of ancient Sparta. |
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Krypteia |
Krypteia is part of a young Spartan’s Education. Young Spartan men who completed their training would be able to partake in Krypteia. |
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The First Persian War (Who led it, what happened, what were the outcomes/consequences) |
Wars between Greece and the Persian Empire. The Persians lost to the Athenians and their Greek allies. In the famous land battle of Marathon the Persians were defeated by the Athenians and the Plataeans. Greek City state formed Delian League which drove the persians from Greece. Athens emerged as a leader of some 200 city states. Athens used military force to control city states that challenged them. |
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Darius |
Darius I was the third king of the Persian Empire. |
Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak. |
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Hoplite |
A heavily armed foot soldier of Ancient Greece. |
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What is the Phalanx? |
Formation. |
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Phalanx Formation |
The phalanx was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy foot soldiers armed with spears, pikes, sarisas which is similar weapons. |
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Battle of Marathon |
It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. 10,000Athenians marched out of their city to met thePersians, 80,000 strong who had landed at Marathon, the Persians had with them the ex-tyrant of Athens, Hippias, to try to be able to gain sympathisers in the Athenian camp. |
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Xerxes |
Xerxes I of Persia was the fourth of the king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire. He ruled from 486 BC until his murder in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus who is the commander of the royal bodyguard. Xerxes assembles an huge takeover force. |
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Battle of Thermopylae and 300 Spartans |
The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes over the course of three days, during the second Persian takeover of Greece. Leonidas dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard their retreat with 300Spartans, 700 Thespians, 400 Thebans, and perhaps a few hundred others, most of whom were killed. Because he is aware that his force was being outflanked. |
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Direct Democracy |
Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide (vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly. |
A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives. |
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Pericles: Who he was and what he did for Athens |
Pericles was a prominent statesman, famous orator, and general of Athens during the Golden Age of Athens. So profound was his influence that the period in which he led Athens has been called the 'Age of Pericles'. |
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Peloponnesian War: Causes, Effects, Outcome |
The war is between Athens and Sparta. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as the democratic reforms of Cleisthenes, which Sparta always opposed. Spartans destroy Athens farmland.Athens surrender to Sparta. Sparta wins the battle of Peloponnesian War with Athens. The Athenians move the treasury of the Delian League from Delos to Athens. Sparta declares that Athens has broken the Thirty Year Peace and prepares for war. |
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Tragedy |
A tragedy was a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal. |
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Comedy |
It contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor. |
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Philosophers |
Lovers of wisdom |
A person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline. |
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Socrates |
One critic of the Sophists. Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher. |
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Plato |
A student of Socrates. Plato was a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece, and the founder of the Academy in Athens, |
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Macedonia |
Macedonia is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region |
it located in north Greek. |
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Alexander the Great: Who he was, accomplishments |
Alexander the Great was a king of Macedonia who conquered an empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. |
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Decline under the Dorians |
The economyfall down and trade eventually came to a standstill(stop) soon after their arrival. |
Greeks appear to have temporarily lost the art of writingduring the Dorian Age. No written record exists from Dorians Age. |
