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Hellens
What were the ancient Greeks called?
800 BCE-300 BCE
What years were regarded as the Gold Age of Greece?
Minoan civilization
What kind of civilization was Greece during its Golden Age?
To defeat the Persians
Why did the city-states join together?
Its rough Terrian
What isolated Greece?
The sea (never more than 50 miles away)
What made Greece more connected and shaped almost every part of their lives?
Polis
What were the city-states referred to as?
Public affairs mattered
What did political animal mean?
Athens
What was the largest city-state?
The sea
What was the main communication through?
Acropolis
What was the “High city?”
Agoras
What were the markets called?
Athens
What was the cultural center of Greece and also the largest and wealthiest?
Democracy
What kind of government did Athens have?
Sparta
What city-state was a military-focused, aggressive society?
It was said they had a “wall of men”
Why was there no need to build a war around Sparta?
Sparta
In what city-state did women have status, power, and respect?
Preparing for war
What was the Spartans lives devoted to?
Babies were left to die (by law)
What happened during defect checks?
13 years
How many years did Spartans train before they began service in the army?
A selection
How were marriages decided in Sparta?
Women
Who ran society in Sparta when men were away?
2/5
How much land could women have in Sparta?
The Parthenon
What was built dedicated to Athena?
On the Acropolis in Athens
Where was the Parthenon built?
Each column had a slight curve so it appeared straight
What was different about the columns on the Parthenon?
Doric, Ionic, and Carinthian
What were the three kinds of columns?
Bowl-shaped outdoor amphitheaters
What buildings were used for drama?
Dionysus
Who did they have a festival to worship?
Only men
Who could attend drama productions?
Masks
What was a popular prop in drama productions?
Comedy and Tragedy
What were the two primary types of plays?
480-406 BCE
What years was Euripides popular?
Medea, Electra, and the Trojan Women
What plays did Euripides write?
496/5-406/5 BCE
When was Sophocles popular?
Oedipus by Sophocies
What did Aristotle consider the most perfect of all tragedies?
Sophocles
Who wrote Antigone?
A lover of wisdom
What is a philosopher?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Who were the philosophers from ancient Greece?
Socrates
Who encouraged people to examine their own beliefs and ideas?
Plato
Where did we get our knowledge about Socrates?
Drinking hemlock
Socrates was loyal to the laws of Athens and accepted what death penalty?
Plato
Who established the Academy which lasted 900 years and emphasized the importance of reason?
The Republic
Plato wrote what book that describes an ideal state?
Democracy
What was Aristotle suspicious of?
Aristotle
Who told people they should live by the golden mean a moderate course?
Writings
What was the basis for later educational systems in Greece?
Aristotle
Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
Who said women are imperfect men, men are superior, and women are mere matter?
147 BCE
When did the Romans invade?
Herodotus
Who is the father of History?
Herodiotus
Who wrote the first history of the ancient world that recorded the wars?
Homer
Who was a blind poet and was credited with composing the Illiad?
The story of the Trojan war and the Odyssey
What did the Illiad reveal?
Archimedes
Who was a Greek mathematician that discovered how to measure volume?
I found it
What does Eureka mean?
Hippocrates
Who was the father of medicine?
A Philosophic doctor
What kind doctor was Hippocrates?
The Hippocratic Oath (promise that they will deny no medical attention)
What did Hippocrates create that still exists for doctors today?
Citizens
Who was at the top of the social structure?
Metrics (foreigners)
Who was after the citizens in the social order?
Women
Who was not regarded as citizens and had little to no political rights?
Slaves
Who was at the bottom at the social structure?
2-3
How many slaves were there in an average household?
Politics and Education
What was important for men?
Patriarchy
What type of society was Greece?
Staying home, no formal education, male exports, and fathers arranged marriages (except in Sparta where naked games were held)
What was part of culture for women?
Housework, watched the doors, and acted as tutors
What did slaves do?
Very bright colors
What was seen in Greece?