History Unit 3 Greece
One of the greatest Greek thinkers. He explored philosophy, science, etc. He also wrote a book on human behavior called Peri Psyches.
Aristotle
Who wrote the book Peri Psyches?
Aristotle
The goddess of wisdom that the Athenians worshiped.
Athena
After the Persian wars, the Delian league was formed for protection. Eventually, this city-state took control and used the league for her own purposes.
Athens
During the Peloponnesian War, this city-state was afflicted by a plague that wiped out their leader and thousands of their people.
Athens
The Parthenon was built in the acropolis of this city.
Athens
This city-state was the victor of the Peloponnesian War.
Athens
This society was the first to promote democracy.
Athens
One of the first major battles in the Persian wars. It occurred in 490 BC and the Athenians defeated the Persians using the phalanx military formation.
Battle of Marathon
Xerxes watched this battle from a hillside as his ships were lured into a narrow inlet where the more maneuverable Greek ships rammed them and sunk them ending the threat of the great Persian army.
Battle of Salamis bay
An emotionally unstable Persian king who was prone to fits of rage. His poor decisions led to the destruction of part of the Persian army.
Darius
He was the Persian king that led the Persians against the Greeks after the rebellion of the Ionian colonies.
Darius
He created a harsh law code to bring order to society. It didn't work well. Even petty crimes were punishable by death.
Draco
Who made the harsh code law?
Draco Malfoy
What two scholars were into math?
Euclid and Pythagoras
What six scholars were into philosophy?
socrates, plato, Aristotle, Cynics, Epicureans,
What is the democracy of Athens?
- Male citizenship + 18 years old - Slaves, metics, kids, foreign merchants, had to be born a citizen, and women couldn't vote. - Astracism - Leaders could be voted by the people!
Famous Greek inventor who developed defense weapons as well as device for drawing water. He also studied the property of water displacement and was said to have run through the streets yelling "Eureka".
Archimedes
What two scholars were into science?
Archimedes and Hippocrates
He tutored Alexander the Great and inculcated him with Greek culture.
Aristotle
How long was the Peloponnesian war?
431-404
What time was the battle of Salamis Bay?
480 BC
What time was the battle of Thermaplyae?
480 BC
How long was the Golden age?
480-430
What time was the Marathon war?
490 BC
The meeting place where Greeks discussed the issues of the day. It was an open market of sorts.
Agora
He died of illness at the age of 33 after conquering much of the known world.
Alexander the Great
What happened in the first battle?
Greeks stopped Darius's invasion of Athens. Greeks won
What did Alexander the Great spread?
He spread Hellenistic culture from Aristotle.
This word means "to be like the Greeks" and describes the culture that was spread by the Macedonians.
Hellenistic
Slaves of the Spartans who did all the farm labor.
Helots
He was a Greek historian who wrote about the Persian Wars. His works do have some errors, however, due to his lack of fact-checking.
Herodotus
What the two history philosophers?
Herodotus and Thucydides
He is the father of modern medicine and believed that diseases had biological causes (i.e. not caused by the gods).
Hippocrates
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
Often characters in Greek myths had too much pride or...
Hubris
What is the Tyreme?
It is a ship with 3 rows and it rams into other ships.
Why was the war significant?
It left Greece is vulnerable which led to Phillip II and Macedonia taking over them.
He was the heroic King of the Spartans that died with 300 others trying to protect a mountain pass against the enemy.
Leonidas
This was the first ancient Greek civilization centered on Crete.
Minoans
He was the great politician and leader of the Athenians in the Golden age. He was the one who commissioned the building of the Parthenon. He died of a disease during the Peloponnesian War.
Pericles
What happened in the second battle?
Persians defeated the Greeks at Narrow mt. pass.
The Macedon king that conquered all of Greece except for Sparta before being assassinated.
Phillip II
He did not believe in democracy. He thought philosophers should rule. He was a student of Socrates. He wrote the Republic
Plato
Who wrote the Republic?
Plato
The general term for Greek city-states
Polis
Although he wrote little of his philosophy down, we know a great deal about his methods from his students. He asked questions and then analyzed the answers to learn about human nature. He said "Know Thyself" and died of poisoning.
Socrates
What society killed their unhealthy children because they were not fit for the military?
Sparta
who was apart of the Peloponnesian league?
Sparta
What society got rid of their "unfit" children?
Spartan
This was the second ancient Greek society. It was during this time period that the Greeks conquered Troy, according to a famous poet.
Spartans
What happened after the peloponesian war?
The Greece golden age
What was the first major battle & who won?
The battle of Marathon & Greek won
The last major battle of the Persian wars. It was a great victory for the Greeks.
The battle of Salamis bay
What is the third battle & who won?
The battle of Salamis bay & Greek won
After the end of the Persian War, Athens needed to rebuild her walls. This Athenian general stalled the Spartans long enough so that the Athenians were able to rebuild their walls and not have to submit to Sparta.
Themistocles
He was the Greek general of Athens that was the hero of Salamis Bay. He baited the Persian King into sending his ships into the narrow bay.
Themistocles
What is the second battle & who won?
Thermoplyae & Persia won
It was here that 300 heroic Spartans died to protect the rest of Greece from the Immortals of the Persian army.
Thermopylae
Why did the Greeks and Sparta fight for?
They fought for control of Greece
He was the Greek historian who fought in the Peloponnesian War and was very careful about recording history as accurately as possible.
Thucydides
What is Astricism?
To vote someone out of Athens because they didn't believe in what they believed in or was a threat. They had too much power(gone for 10 years?)
What is the Illiad and Odyssey about?
Trojan war
He was a Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid about the hero, Aeneas and the Trojan War.
Virgil
What happened in the last battle?
Xerxes was proud and stood by while he lost.
The chief of the Greek gods. He was also the god of lightning.
Zeus
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