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Sophists |
wandering scholars and professional teachers in ancient Greece who stressed the importance of rhetoric and tended toward skepticism and relativism |
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Tyrant |
in an ancient Greek polis (or an Italian city-state during the Renaissance) a ruler who came to power in an unconstitutional way and ruled without being subject to the law |
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Socratic method |
a form of teaching that uses a question and answer format to enable students to reach conclusions by using their own reasoning. |
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Polis |
people within a greek country who had rights. Had to be a male free and a native |
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Phalanx |
a rectangular formation of tightly massed infantry soldiers. |
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Mysticism |
the immediate experience of oneness with God |
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Hellenistic |
literally "imitating the Greeks" the era after the death of Alexander the Great when Greek culture spread into the Near East and blended with the culture of that region |
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Assyria |
most vicious empires. Assyrians came up with invention called chariot (horse pull) used in war time. They destroyed Israel. |
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Nebuchadnezzar |
Took over after the Assyrians and conquered Judah. Enslaved Jews in babylon and created the Gardens of Babylon |
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Cyrus |
conquered the middle east, was a great warrior, great conquerer. Military conquest was bases of slavery, but Cyrus didn't play that game. Interested in other peoples cultures |
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Lycurgus |
turned Sparta into a military society. He had boys at the age of 5 be taken away from the families for military training. At the age of 20 you were a full soldier. |
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Greece |
Call there country Hellas. Culture-hellenic-meaning greek culture. Didn't have all powerful dictatorship. Very hard to conquer. Had the polis. |
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Homer |
poet going from place to place reciting history of the Greeks. He wrote Iliad and the Odyssey. |
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Solon |
Helped Athenians but had to leave. |
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Treatment of women |
had more power/ equality, but after war women had rights taken away because men couldn't stand being teased |
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490 B.C |
Athens created a new political system called democracy which was ruled by the people. Persians conquered all of Turkey. |
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Xerxes |
Was a king. Athenians thought he was a monster. Was sleeping with his brothers daughter so his wife wanted him to kill the daughter. His wife killed his brothers wife and his brother rebelled so Xerxes killed him too. |
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Leonidas |
Was Spartan king. Led 300 men in the defense of Greece against Xerxes |
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480 B.C. |
Herodotus Salamis and Xerxes. Cult of simplicity |
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Damaratus |
had a dream of Xerxes conquering Greeks and ruling Sparta. |
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Euripides |
Wrote plays, mainly tragedies |
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Lysistrata |
no sex until men quit the war |
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Democracy |
when the people vote on everything |
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Socrates |
showed people they didn't know what they were talking about- very tough. Said to be the ugliest man and trained people to debate. |
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Thucydides |
Athenian general who made people mad and was forced into exile. No gods or goddesses. First social scientist writer. |
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Parthenon |
Most beautiful building built. Put in a place where there was Temple for the goddess |
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Pericles |
great administrator, seen as the greatest man in Athens by Athenians. 438 B.C. built the Parthenon. Let his wife be seen in public. |
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Darius |
Great King of Persia |
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Iliad |
A poem written about the Trojan war. |
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Odyssey |
About Odysseus's 10 year struggle to return home after the Trojan war. |
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Persian Wars |
From 492-449 B.C. Between Greece and Persia and Sparta fought until every man was killed. |
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Herodotous |
Wrote about the Persian Wars |
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Peloponnesian War |
ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian league led by Sparta |
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Aristotle |
was a Greek philosopher and scientist. He was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great |
King of the Ancient Kingdom of Macedon. Took command of Macedonian army. Came close to conquering the civilized world. |
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Hellenization |
The culture of the Greeks |
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Plato |
Was a philosopher who taught Aristotle. Also a mathematician. |