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42 Cards in this Set
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polis
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Greek city state, born in the archaic age
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chattel slavery
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a form of forced labor when people are considered property to other people. slaves can be held against their will fromo the time of their capture, or purchase at birth
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exposure
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if you have a child who are whatever you don't want, uou could literally and legally expose the infant to the fate of the gods so the gods could determine what should haapen to the child
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oligarchy
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a political system gorverned by a few people
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tyranny
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dictatorship, a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator
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democracy
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form of political system where the people of the community rule
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Sparta
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Greek city, dominant in the Poleponisian wars
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helots
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an unfree population group that ormed the main population of Laconia and the whole of messenia
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Lycurgus
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the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, who esablished the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi
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Gerousia
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was the Spartan senate. It was made up of 60 year old Spartan males, created Lycurgus
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Corinth
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the modern Greek poort nea the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens
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Cypselus
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first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC
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Athens
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capitol and largest city of Greece, named after Athena and was home to the Parthenon which was built for Athena
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Solon
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Athenian statesmen, lawmaker, and elegiac poet. he is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens
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boule
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a council of citizens appointed to run daily affaris of the city
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Pisistratus
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Athenian ruler who introduced land reform and was supported by the lower class, he was a tyrant at various times between 561 and 528 bc
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Hippias
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son of Pisistratus and tyrant ruler of athens in the 6th century
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Cleisthenes
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noble Athenian of the Alcmaeonid. He is credited with reforming the consitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC
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ostracism
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by using little bits of broken pieces of pottery in order too cote once a year and you could secretly vote and write the name of thhe persn you thought was getting a little too powerful and then tey would sount up the votes and whoevers name got the most votes, you would have to leave Athens for a period of 10 years
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agora
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an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states
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Delphi
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the location of an important temple of Apollo, it was thought of as the umbilical portal of the earth
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oracles
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a person who can connect to the gods
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olympic games
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played in thhe city of Olympia which is home to the temple for Zeus and the games were played in honor of Zeus
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Phoenician alphabet
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a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad, and was used for the writing of Phoenician, a northern Semitic language
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Oracle at Delphi
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person representing the god Apollo, allegedly recieve cryptic messages from the god that had predictive value if the seeker could correctly interpret the communication
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Sappho
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a female poet and a lyric poet. She came rom the island of lesbos off the coast of asia minor, it appears to have been a school for poetry for girls which was lead by Sappho
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Hesiod
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he is most famous for the theogony, which is about the origins of gods and work and days which concerns itself with the multiple origins of humans
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Homer
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he is a poet of the archaic age and much of what he wrote about reflects what he ws living in, but some of what his stories way are stories of much much earlier time
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arete
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the male virtue that is best described as honor, excellence, courage, and this is a trait that men needed and it was idea for Greek men, but you could push it too far such as hecot and achillies
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Pre-Socratics
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guys that came before Socrates, each of these civilizations will ask the question why?
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Thales of Miletus
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tried to figure out what was the source of all these elements (earth wind fire and air). started writing that water was the primary and core element of the existance
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Anaximander
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student of Thales, he decided that water was not the primary element, but that there is an unseen force, Aperion, that separates out the elements from each other
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Pythagoras
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remembered by the Pythagorean theorem, was leader of a group of thinkers who tried to get to the core element, he thought that numbers was the central element of the universe
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Pythagorean Universe
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pythagoras thought that in order for the earth to be perfect as it was, t had to be a sphere and the war the universe was set up was that the universe was a series of spheres
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Mycenaean
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most ancient atteted form of the Greek language, spoken on the greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th century
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Minoan
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someone who was a Cretan who belonged to the Minoan civilization; of or relating to the civilization that developing in Crete from the neolithic perior to the Bronze age
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Crete
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the largest Greek island in the mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 bc
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Carl Blegen
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an Archaeologit famous for his work on thhe site of Pylos in modern day greece and Troy in modern day Turkey
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Michael Ventril
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english architech and classical scholar who, along with John Chadwick, was responsibe for the decipherment of Linear B
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Linear A
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one of two scripts used in ancient Crete before Mycenaean Greek Linear B, in Minoan times, Linear A was the official scripts for the palaces and cults and Cretan Hierglyphs were mainly used on seals
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Linear B
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it predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries
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Dorians
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meaning "from Doris" it was probably created by Oscar Wilde for the main character in his
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