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42 Cards in this Set
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Dark Age Submycenaen Pottery
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Dark Age Geometric Pottery
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Kouros Sculpture
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Dark Age Home
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Slaves at a smith shop
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Spartan Soldier
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Spartan girl running
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Solon
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Harmodious and Aristogeiton
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Cleisthenes
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Persian and Greek soldiers fighting
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Persian soldier running
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Triremes
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Chigi Vase (Hoplite Phalanx)
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Prophetess at Oracle of Delphi
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Lycurgus
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Spartan Lawmaker, Three Rhetras; Forbid the writing of the Rhetras, Against Extravagance and forbidding campaigns against the same enemy
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Draco
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First Legislator of athens, First written laws, Make the state the arbiter of justice (rather than the oikoi), Bodies of magistrates judge cases, Harsh Penalties
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Solon
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- Renowned for wisdom and sensitivity to the poor
- Enlisted in 594 BCE to stabalize athenian affairs - Inscribed laws on public tablets to be displayed in the agora - Revise draconian laws - allow all citizens to bring suit against each other and serve on a jury of appeal and oversight (heliaea) |
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Seisachtheia
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Solon's Debt Reforms, "shaking off of burdens", "alleviation"
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Cleisthenes
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Divided attica into three geographical areas, Each area into ten trittyes, united trittyes into ten tribes, made juries that were randomly chosen
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Croesus
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Rich king of Lydia that invited Solon as a guest. Solon was humble but honest in stating that Croesus' wealth did not reflect the happiness of an honest man.
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Candaules
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King of lydia (~735 BCE) that forced his bodyguard Gyges to look at his wife naked. Later his life would be taken by a plan of his wife involving Gyges
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Candaules' Wife
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The wife of king Candaules of Lydia who was looked upon in the nude by her husband's bodyguard, Gyges. Later told Gyges that he would kill her husband and marry her or die himself.
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Gyges
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Bodyguard of Candaules, who later killed him.
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Alyattes
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Father of Croesus
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Aristagoras
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Tyrant of Miletus, puppet of Persia. Leader of Ionian rebellion.
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Darius
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King of Persia, Father of Xerxes. Favored Monarchy. Conquered Ionia
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Mardonius
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General of Persian army, Try to convince Xerxes to stay and fight but ended up staying with 300,000 slaves at Xerxes' behest.
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Datis
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General in Darius' Army. Sacked Eretria and was present in the battle of Marathon where he died.
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• Artaphrenes/Artaphernes
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General in Darius' Army, enlisted along side Datis.
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Philippides
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Messenger sent to the spartans to request military assistance, Spartans would help after their festival would finish.
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• Callimachus
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War Archon of Greece, Miltiades approached him insisting to battle against the Persians.
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Xerxes
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King of persia, Son of Darius. Adopted his fathers plan to take control of greece, eventually lost the battle against the well organized and well armed greeks.
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Themistocles
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Reinterpreted the oracle's divination. "Blessed Salamis" not "Cruel Salamis". The wall of wood referred to a fleet of ships and the persians would lose the battle of salamis. Also bribed various generals to stay and fight.
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Leonidas
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King of Sparta. Important in holding off the persian invaders in the Battle of Themopylae. Died at the battle but succeeded in delaying the Persian force.
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Ephialtes
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Traitor to the greek cause. Delivered information about a mountain path around the greek stand at Thermopylae in hopes of gold. Did not get what he wanted.
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Demaratus
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Exiled ruler of Greece and aid of Xerxes. Supported Xerxes' cause and provided information about the greek forces and the spartan army.
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Tyrtaeus
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Famed poet who composed poems and ellegies on the spartan culture.
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Artemisia
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Female general of Xerxes's army who did not fear voicing her opinion. In the battle of Salamis she rammed her ship into a friendly vessel to confuse Greeks as to her allegiance. This confused Xerxes's as well as he thought she rammed an enemy ship.
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Adeimantus
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Greek General that was convinced to stay to fight by a bribe from Themistocles who gave him 3 talents.
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Alexander, the son of Amyntas
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Advised the Lacedaemonians to leave Thessaly due to the shear magnitude of the Persian forces.
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Pausanias
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made the leader of the greek combined forces until the war with the persians was over. Was made such because of the dissension among the ranks of politicians and the like, and a spartan leader would yield the best results.
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