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45 Cards in this Set
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Dark Age
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Age where iron replaced bronze and Greeks adopted Phoenicean alphabet
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Peloponnesus
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Southern peninsula of Greece
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Archaic Age
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Age after the Dark Age in Greece
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Polis
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"city state", primary form of political form of politcal and social organization
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Acropolis
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Polis built around this defensible fortification
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Agora
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Market place below Acropolis
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Byzantium
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Most famous colony in greece
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Hoplites
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Heavily armed infantry men
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Phalanx
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A large body of closely packed Hoplites each extending a long spear outward
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Draco
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Statesman and law maker that came to rule Athens, strict and unforgiving laws
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Solon
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wealthy Athenian trader that came to rule that cancelled all land dept, free slave dept, and divided 4 social classes based on wealth. Was not a radical!
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Peisistratus
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Took advantage of instabilty in Athens and became a Tyrant ruler. Promised to liberalize land laws
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Hipparchus
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Peisistratus's son that was murdered
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Hippias
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Exiled due to being paranoid
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Cleisthenes
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Arsitocrat and reformer that took over after tyrant rule
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The Council of 500
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Carry on routine administration of gov.
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Monarchy
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Rule by king or queen
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Oligarchy
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Rule by few
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Aristocracy
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Rule by rich land owners
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Sophists
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Professional Greek teachers of wisdom
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Protagoras
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Famous Sophist
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Socrates
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1st Greek social philosopher, "know thyself"
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Socratic Method
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Teaching by asking question
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Aristotle
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Plato's best pupil and ideas were based on the reality of concrete objects
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Plato
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Socrates student who founded The Academy and wrote The Republic
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Pythagoras
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Philosopher who believed esscence of universe could be found in music and numbers.
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Aeschylus
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Wrote the Greek trilogy the Oresteia, believed a person's life was controlled by the gods
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Sophocles
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Athenian playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex; about a son who killed father to marry mother
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Herodotus
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Known as "Father of History" and wrote History of Persian Wars.
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Euripides
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Athenian playwright who tried to create more realistic characters
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Aristophanes (hehe funny)
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Great comedy playwright
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Thucydides
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Greatest historian of ancient world who wrote history of Great Peloponnesian War
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Archimedes (Hi-pi?)
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Mathematician who worked on geometry and established rule of pi
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Eratosthenes (Earth)
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An astronomer who calculated the earth is round and calculated the circumference was 24,675 miles
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Euclid
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A mathematician who wrote the Elements (text book) about Geometry.
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Aristarchus (star)
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An astronomer that developed a theory that the sun was center of universe.
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Cynicism (CYclone-nature?)
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Founded by Diogenes. Humans should live according to nature
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Skepticism
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Developed by Pyrrho. Believed knowledge is impossible and beliefs are mearly opinions. One can never really know how things really are.
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Stoicism
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Developed by teacher named Zeno. Stated happiness could only be found by living in harmony with the will of God.
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Epicureanism (happiness-epic?)
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Founded by Epicurus, believed human beings were free to follow their own self interests and make happiness their goal
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Philip II
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Alexander the Great's father who conqured Greece
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Sacred Band
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Group of elite troops (Thebans)
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Battle of Chaeronea
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Battle were Athens + Thebes tried to defeat the invading Macedonian army and fail
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Alexander III
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Philip II's son who conquered Persia, Egypt, and many other countries but ended conquest in India
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Darius III
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King of persia when Alexander III invaded and failed to defend
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