Unit #3 Ancient Greece

Sparta

military city-state

Delian League

modern name of the Athenian alliance, founded after the Persian Wars

Geography of Greece

mountainous and divided into warring city-states

direct democracy

people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly

Hippocratic Oath

pledge to not bring harm to patients

Athenian Assembly

poor attendance

Greek Philosophy

promoted mass education

oligarchy

rule by 3 (middle class nobles)

tyranny

rule by force (may be a dictator)

democracy

rule by people

Greek influence on Western Civilization

sculpture and architecture copied much later in Europe

Greek engineering

use of geometry

Peloponnesian League

loose confederation of Greek city-states led by Sparta

Government in Athens

Assembly

Battle of Marathon

Athenians defeat Persian

Plato's Republic

Athens & Democracy

Effects of Peloponnesian Wars

Greece was weakened

Cause of Persian Wars

Ionia fights for independence

Battle of Thermopylae

Persians defeat Spartans at narrow pass

Greek Architecture

Soldiers Field (Chicago)

Plato

The Republic

city-state

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.

philosopher

a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.

hierarchy

any system of persons or things ranked one above another.

Pericles

democracy benefits the majority

misery

distress

Greek Mythology

explain the mysteries of the world

Pandora's Box

explain why there is evil and sickness in the world

Greek statues

honor gods

Greek Olympics

honors gods

Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle

influenced way of thinking about thinking

monarchy

king (one rule)

Alexander the Greek

spread cultural diffusion throughout Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Persia

Pericles

supported democracy

Greek city-states unite

threat of Persian Empire