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43 Cards in this Set
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Persian Wars |
Darius I starts the Battle of Marathon; Xerxes starts the Battles of: Thermopyle, Salamus, and Platai |
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Cycladic culture |
One of the 1st Bronze Ages that takes place in Greece |
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Minoan Civilization |
Takes place on Island of Crete... Arthur Evans discovers it; Capital city: Knossus |
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The Dark Age |
1200 BC |
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Oligarchy |
Rule by few; not majority |
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Ethnos |
(bigger than polis) More than one city runs whole area |
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Polis |
City state; City rules area around it |
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Agora |
Market place (town square where democracy and business take place) |
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Phalanx |
Fighting formation (line up with spears) |
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Hoplites
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Heavy infantry (soldiers in phalanx) |
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Demos |
People |
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Koine
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Common everyday Greek |
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Ostraka |
Broken pieces of pottery (voting who gets kicked out every year) to avoid demagogues |
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Sophists |
Teach public speaking (counter philosophy) |
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Peloponnesian War |
405 BC War between Athens (and their allies) vs. Sparta over Greece |
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Tholoi |
Bee hive shaped tombs in Greece |
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Tyrant |
Ruler by unconstitutional law |
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Alexander the Great |
Conquers the known world from India and back (includes Egypt) |
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Homer |
Tells stories of Illiad and Odyssey |
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Pisistratus |
First tyrant of Athens |
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Euclid |
Writes Elements: Book on geomtry |
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Socrates |
Thought he was Father of Philosophy; teacher of Plato |
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Cleisthenes |
Father of democracy |
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Lycrugus |
Comes up with Spartan system |
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Draco |
Athens; 621 BC; Comes up with legal system (so bad that no one will follow it) |
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Solon |
Makes it illegal to hold other Athenians |
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Sappho |
Poetess from Island of Lesbos |
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Darius (two of them) |
the 1st Darius invades at Battle of Marathon the 2nd Darius fights Alexander the Great |
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Pericles |
Athenian who starts Pellopenisian wars and rebuilds Athens... dies from plague |
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Thucydides |
the guy who writes Pelloponesian Wars |
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Xerxes |
the Persian king who leads the 2nd invasion of Greece
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Herodotus |
Father of History: writes Historia which means "Book of Inquiry" |
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Themistocles |
The Athenian who comes up with plan of stopping Xerxes and Persians |
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Philip of Macedonia |
Alexander the Great's father |
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Issus |
Battle that takes place in Eastern Turkey |
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Delphi |
Oracle is located here |
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Knossos |
Capital City in Krete Island in Greece |
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Macedonia |
Northern Greece |
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Thermopylae |
Battle between Spartans and Persians |
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Bay of Marathon |
Battle of Marathon takes place here |
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Sparta |
Militarized state |
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Peloponnesus |
Southern part of mainland Greece |
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Athens |
City State |
