Ch.10- Mediterranean Society: The Greeks1

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Battle of Marathon

490 BCE smaller Athenian force defeats the Persians

The Hellenistic Era

An era where Greek cultural traditions expanded beyond Greece to include Persia, India & Egypt traditions

Solon

Aristocrat who played a key role in the creation of democracy

Knossos

Center of Minoan civilization

Battle of Salamis

Decisive naval battle in the Persian War

Polis (Poleis)

Greek City-state

Hellenic Era

Greek cultural traditions that include ideal sculpting with composed faces before Alexander the Great

Epicureans'

Hellenistic philosophers who identified pleasure as the highest good

Stoics

Hellenistic philosophers who viewed human beings as part of one universal family

Pericles

Leader who made Athens the cultural forefront of the Greek world

Alexander of Macedon (the Great)

Macedonian leader who conquered Persia

Philip II of Macedon

Macedonian leader who defeated the Greeks by 338 B.C.E.

Plato

Philosopher who discussed the "World of Forms"

Socrates

Thinker who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"

Aristotle

Thinker who suggested that philosophers should trust their senses and examine the world


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