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| What were the threats from Sparta and Athens? |
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| What was the beginning of the wars? |
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| Persians conquered greeks (modern day turkey area) |
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| Who was the persian leader first? |
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| How many persian losses to the greek losses? |
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| Who was chosen to run from ____ to athens? how long waas the run? Why? |
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Pheidippides, Marathon, 26 miles
to tell athens not to give up the fight with persians |
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Who tries to crush greece? (son of Darius)
When the greek army was severly divided from this who united? and who united them? how much did he destroy? |
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| Xerxes, Athens and Sparta, Themistocles united, 1/3 of Xerxes armuy gone! |
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| Greek citystates felt ___ and ____ after the Persian war. They formed the ______ league. What is the delian league? |
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| unity and freedom, Delian, Alliance that united city states and ended threat of persian attack. |
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| Who is Pericles? What did he do to the democracy? What did he do to Athems, What was the standard art? |
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Wise statesman,
stregnthed it
good army
the body and body proportions |
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| What happened in the Peloponnesian War? Who was is recorded by? What did Athens have? What did Sparta have? What did the Spartans do to the Athenians? What was an athenian problem during war? After war? |
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Thucydides
a Navy (and kept on SEA), no land
Sparta: inland
Spartans burned everything on Athenian land
Athens: a plague killed 2/3 of all athenians; 27,000 soldiers died. SPARTA WON
Athens was in chaos after! |
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| What is the Geography of Ancient Greek? What does the geography cause for Greece? What about the Metiteranean? |
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-not united land
-peninsula w/ two seas
-sea people and many trades |
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| Who were the Minoans and Myceneans? What ethnicity? Big on what? What were the Minoans? The Myceneans? |
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they were indo-european people
military
Sea faring - Minno
Myceneans - sea trade |
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| What was the trojan war? Who wrote it? Where was it (modern day place)? Why really fought? |
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Heinrich Schliemann
Dardanelles Straight
Myceneans and Troy wanted controll of water way |
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| Who were the Dorians? "___ ___" What did they do to Greece? What are myths? Who is Homer and what two stories did he write? |
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| "Sea People", burned down greece, myths: stories to explain gods and happenings, Homer BLIND and made the Iliad and Odyessey |
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| fortified hiltop where MEN had discussion |
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| What are these three political structures? Monarchy, Aristocracy? Oligarchy? |
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Monarchy: kings rule
Aristocracy: small group of wealthy people
Oligarchy: rule of few merchant people |
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| Athens builds what? What three classes held office? Who is Cleisthenes and what did he do? |
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a limited democracy
3 top classes
Cleisthenes reorganized people into location rather than wealth; there was the council of 500 <500 people with advice |
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| What does Sparta build? Sparta attacked surrounding areas and the poople they confinscated are called ____. What the social classes did Sparta have? Life was centered around what? Boys what? Girls what? What was Spartan daily life like? |
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Military state
Helots
1) Ruling Class Descendents
2) free NONcitizens
3) Helots conquered
-Military
-Boys: sent to army around 7 yrs old w/ weapons, little sleep, and little food
-Girls: taught to be tough, could vote, RUN EVERYTHING AT HOME
-Daily life: UNIFORM EVERYWHERE.
no time to appreciate |
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| (back to before the written notes) Who were philosophers in ancient Sparta? Who was Socrates? Who was Plato? Who was Aristotle? |
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Socrates: students examined beliefs
brought to trial for "corrupting youth of athens"
Plato: studied under Socrates, wrote the Republic which stated democracy isnt perfect
Aristotle:
student of Plato, questions nature of world and human belief |
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| After the Peloponnesian the Macedonian King, Phillip II; decided they wanted to take over ____ ___ ___. Macedonians under King Phillip were well _____. He used battle tactics like _____ and _____. What is calvary? Demosthenes urges what, although what happens? |
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-all of greece
-equipt
-calvary and phalinx
-Calvary: men on horsees
-Demosthenes urges city states to join together
but they loose to Alexander anyway |
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| Who is Alexander the Great? What did he do for Greece? Who did he admired(2)? What did he keep under his pillow? |
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Alexander is a powerful military leader;
Conquered then united
Admired Achilles and Hector
Iliad |
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| In Alexanders conquest to Persia he leads 35,000 soldiers, what were the soldiers like? Darius's troops were what? What were the persians? Alexander knew what? Darius nigociates what deal? Alexabder does what to the deal? |
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-soldiers are well traineed
-Darius out numbered Alexander
-Persians were not ready but fought anyway
-Alexander saw the outnumberment but fought anyway
-Darius said " have the western part of the empire"
-Alexander then takes all of Persia |
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| Alexander after Persia goes where? Were the Egyptians happy? Alexander founded what? |
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| What happened in Darius' and Alexanders last battle? Alexander continued to where? How long did he fight? What did he want to do next but what happened instead? |
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Darius was badly beat (at ninevah)
Continues east
11 yrs
unify and reorganize
he died from fever |
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| What is a hellenistic culture? What is Alexandria? Who made Mathmatics and Physics? What pholosophy was made? |
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-Greek+Egyptian+Indian+Persian
-Trade city founded by Alexander
-Elucid made pythagorian
-Philosophy: Stoicism-natural law (like Daoism) |
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