Global - study guide

Greece

________ saw a revival of some trade and some economic activity besides agriculture.

Classical Greece

________ is the name given to the period of Greek history from around 500 B.

Tyrants

________ kill or exile enemy aristocrats and break up /distribute farmland.

Sophocles

________- The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright ________, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens.

Cleon

In the confrontation between ________ and Antigone, Sophocles bears witness to the complexity of human existence.

Greeks

The ________ adopted the Phoenician alphabet to give themselves a new system of writing.

physical sense

In a(n) ________, the polis encompassed a town or city or even a village and its surrounding countryside.

Poleis

________ varied greatly in size, from a few square miles to a few hundred square miles.

Minoan Cretans

________ also made contact with and exerted influence on the Greek- speaking inhabitants of the Greek mainland.

hoplite force

The ________, which apparently developed first in the Peloponnesus, had political as well as military repercussions.

Homeric Greece

Homer and ________ The Iliad and the Odyssey, the first great epic poems of early Greece, were based on stories that had been passed on from generation to generation.

Sophocles

The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright Sophocles, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens

Individuals outfit themselves seventh and sixth century B.C

600s-500s

490 b.c → Marathon

Athenian defeat Persia

480 b.c → Thermopylae

spartans hold off Persian army

431

404 B.C → Athens shouldve won

1400

1200 B.C → Mycenae domination

1600

1500 B.C → Minoans reached its height and success