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Ancient Greece - |
Ancient Greece |
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What is Greece made up of? |
Many little islands and peninsulas |
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Why did this matter? |
It made it hard for different islands to connect to each other |
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Early Greek history- the ? Lived on an islands called Crete around 3000 to 1100BCE |
Minoans |
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Why did the Minoan civilization decline? |
Likely when invaders, Mycenaeans took over around 1400 BCE |
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What is the earliest form of written Greek? Significance? |
Mycenaean No one has figured out the hundreds of symbols yet |
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What war took place between. 1194-1184 and marks the decline of Greek civilization? |
Trojan |
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The Trojan war also marked the beginning of ? |
Dark ages |
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What is Trojan horse? |
Legend says Greek soldiers hit in a giant wooden horse to sneak into city of Troy and conquer it |
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What two poems about Trojan horse? |
Aeneid and odyssey |
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Sometime around 800 BCE (almost end of dark ages) what type of government developed? |
City states began to form and written records reappeared |
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Why do we know so little about dark ages? |
No written records during time |
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What Greek poet tells the story of the Trojan war? What book? |
Homer- Iliad |
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By 700 BCE ? Was the city state where everything was happening |
Athens |
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Who ruled Athens? |
At first king and then Solon takes over and reforms economy and government |
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What era happened after solon rule? |
Golden age of Greece- a period during which Athens grew richer from silver and trade and made important cultural achievements |
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The Greeks worshiped a family of gods and goddesses led by ? And. ? The king and queen of gods |
Zeus and Hera (king and queen of gods) |
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They believed that different gods rules different areas of life. Such as ? War and ? Love and ? Sea |
War- ares Love- Aphrodite Sea- Poseidon |
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The Greeks believed that the most powerful gods formed a family called the ? |
Olympian’s |
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Greeks worshipped at sacred sites called? |
Oracles |
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What began around 776 BCE as a festival for the olympians? |
Olympic where athletic games were a way of honoring the Gods |
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? Was a Greek philosopher that taught people how to think and figure things out by asking questions |
Socrates - Socratic method |
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What happened to Socrates? M |
Made to drink poison |
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Who studied under Socrates and what did he do? |
Plato- wrote a book called the republic and believed society should be divided into three groups- workers soldiers and philosophical rulers |
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Did Socrates and Plato record ideas? |
Socrates didn’t write down anything and plato wrote down everything |
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? Studied under Plato |
Aristotle |
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What did Aristotle (like Plato) believe? |
People’s happiness was connected to their behavior |
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What was Aristotle very interested in? |
Nature and he classified plants and animals in a scientific method used today |
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Aristotle formed his own school? Who did he tutor? |
Lyceum Alexander the Great |
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Three major Greek playwrights were? |
Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides |
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In architecture what was built between 447 BCE and 432 BCE? |
Parthenon |
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Who was it dedicated to?? |
Athena and the Athenians |
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Who was Hippocrates and why was he important? |
He was a greek doctor who believed that diseases were caused naturally and not as a result of God or superstition Doctors today still take Hippocrates oath |
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? Was one of the most influential leaders in Ancient Greece? |
Pericles |
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What did Pericles contribute to government reform?? |
City pays a salary to its officials and Direct democracy- citizens could give their options on laws, war etc |
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Who was considered a citizen? |
Only make Athenians with 2 anthenian parents |
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? And ? Were two major Greek city states in early Greece? |
Athens and Sparta |
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How were they different? |
Athenians wrote plays and made pottery and sold goods and they were prosperous at the cost of others Sparta was prosperous in battle- believed that the city state became above the individual at all costs and they lived as a powerful war machine |
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What were slaves called? |
Helots |
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In 431 they began fighting the Athenians in ? War and how long did it last?? |
Peloponnesian war - lasted for 27 years |
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King Phillip was king of? And he brought his son ? To be tutored by Aristotle |
Macedonia Alexander |
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Philip was assassinated and Alexander took over at age of ? What did he conquer? |
20 In 11 years he had conquered Persia Egypt and land beyond the Indus River |
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What did Alexander’s conquests spread? What did he become known as?? |
Greek culture over a large area Alexander the Great |
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After Alexander’s death what happens to empire? What were the Kingdoms called?? |
Divided into three smaller kingdoms called Hellenistic kingdoms |
