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34 Cards in this Set
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Trojan War
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Started because someone kidnaped Helen of Troy and is written about in the odyssey
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What is an Epic?
Why did the Greeks have Epics? Name 2 famous Epics |
During the time where the Minoans took over and didn’t write anything about their history so homer wrote stories like the odyssey and the Iliad.
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Homer
What did Homer write? |
He wrote the Odyssey and other Epics
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What is a Polis?
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Small groups ruled by an individual leader
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Why did the Polis create alliances?
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The Poli developed alliances called leagues which fought together against attacks
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Which were the two most powerfull Polis?
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most powerful where Athens and Sparta city states
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Democracy
Who created it? |
Created by Athens
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What is democracy
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A government ruled by the people instead of a king
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Oligarchy
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A form of government where a higher class is in charge lead by a small group
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What did Aristotle do?
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logical reasoning first to classify animals by species
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Who was his teacher?
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Plato
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Who is Socrates?
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a greek philosopher
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What did he create?
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Invented the Socratic method and Socratic irony
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What was he executed for?
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executed for denying the Greek gods Invented Debate
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Who was Plato?
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a philosopher
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What did he accomplish?
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Opened the first center for higher learning in Greece It was called the academy
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Alexander the Great
Who was he? |
The new leader of Greece
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What was he the king of?
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King of Macedonia
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What was he famous for?
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built the library of Alexandria
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Hellenistic
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A culture made from Egypt, Greece, Persia, Sparta and parts of India and Asia
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Hippocrates
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Studied the human body and advanced medical knowledge
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Pythagoras
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Wrote the Pythagorean theorem
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What were the twelve tables?
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- the laws of ancient Rome
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Why were they posted in the center of Rome?
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they were written down and posted in the middle of town because the plebeians (common people) demanded it
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Who was Hannibal
And which place did he fight for |
- a great general
he fought for Carthage (in Africa) during the Punic Wars |
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Plebeians
Who are they? |
- these were the common people in Rome
- they controlled the assemblies lived in apartments and ate bread, cheese, fruit |
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Patricians
Who are they? |
- the powerful landowners
- they controlled the magistrates and the senate eat unusual food, have two homes, and running water, baths |
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Julius Caesar
Who was he? |
- he started as general, then became a consul, later he was named the dictator
- he conquered France and took over Egypt |
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Why was he killed?
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- he was killed because he took away power from the senate
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Roman Republic
How many branches? |
- It had three branches; the senate, assemblies, magistrates
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Which was the most powerful?
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- The senate was the oldest and most powerful
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When did Rome change to an empire?
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when Caesar came into power
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Punic Wars
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- Rome vs Carthage: Rome won
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Why were the Punic Wars bad for Rome?
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- They caused trouble for Rome because
- farmers lost their farms while fighting, had to sell their land. Had to move to the cities for jobs - the new colonies were controlled by governors who over-taxed the people |
