• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/6

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

6 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
Xerxes
(518-465 BCE) Xerxes suppressed a revolt in Egypt. He fought against the Greeks in the Persian Wars, winning a victory at Thermopylae and suffering defeat at Salamis.Xerxes built a bridge across the Hellespont and dug a canal across the Mt Athos peninsula for the ships in 480. Traces of the c 2200 m. or 12 stadia (according to Herodotus) long canal are described as the most impressive testimony to imperial Persian presence in Europe and to ancient marine engineering. Xerxes wasn't concerned with making a presence, as Herodotus suggests, so much as by concern not to repeat the problems that Mardonius had faced in 492.
Hoplite
(650 BCE) Polis army, made up heavily armed foot soldiers called Hoplites, arranged in a tightly packed formation. The carried a shield called the hoplon. Long spears, short slashing sword.
Helot
Term for groups of conquered people in Greece forced by their conquerors to work as serfs on their former lands. It is most commonly associated with Sparta, where helots probably outnumbered citizens by a ratio of seven to one. The Spartan way of life both depended on and was formed by the state’s ownership of thousands of helots in Laconia and Messenia. Fear of helot uprisings often discouraged Sparta from long campaigns.
Agoge
Middle 7th Century. Spartan educational system. Revived by Agis IV (262-241) and Cleomenes III (235-222)
was the rigorous education and training regimen mandated for all male Spartan citizens, except for the firstborn son in the ruling houses, Eurypontid and Agiad. The training involved learning stealth, cultivating loyalty to the Spartan group, military training (e.g., pain tolerance), hunting, dancing, singing and social (communicating) preparation. The word "agoge" meant in ancient Greek, rearing, but in this context generally meant leading, guidance or training.
Yahweh
The origins of the worship of Yahweh are obscure, but reach back at least to the early Iron Age and probably to the Late Bronze Age. His name may have begun as an epithet of the god El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon ("El who is present, who makes himself manifest"), or he may have been a god from northern Arabia (the Kenite hypothesis). In either case, the name appears to have been unique to Israel and Judah, and is not clearly attested outside the two kingdoms.
Agora
In Homer, it’s the term meaning “place of gathering”, the assembly of people. In the city state it denoted the public space of a city or town, being both the marketplace and civic center.