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| By 500 BCE, what was the largest of the Greek city states? |
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| Why was Athens important? |
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| militarily powerful, cutural center, only democratic state |
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| When was the Greek Expansion>? |
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| Why did the greek expansion happen? |
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| little gross for large herds, no major rivers, shift from herding to farming |
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| What was early agriculture like in Greece? |
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| barley in the low lands, olive trees in the foothills, grapes on the hillsides |
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| Why was greek agriculture so limited as far as where it could be? |
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| the rockiness of the area limited what could be grown and how much room there was to grow the food |
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| Who were the phoenicians? |
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| seafaring people who began to expand out from their base in the eastern Mediterranean around 900 BC |
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| When did the phoenicians establish carthage? |
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| When did greek and phoenician expansion occur? |
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| Who were the first people to circumnavigate Africa? |
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| Where did the Greeks get their alphabet? |
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| When did classical greece emerge? |
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| When did classical greece emerge? |
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| How long did classical greece flourish? |
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| What did the greeks call themselves and why? |
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| the Hellenes, after their mythical founder hellene |
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| About how many people occupied Greece? |
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| About how many city states were there? |
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| About how many male citizens were in each city state? |
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Every four years the city-states temporarily suspended their fighting to participate in sporting events
This tradition began in 776 BC |
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| Between 3500 and 1750 BCE, what was the most prominent large scale trend? |
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| the globalization of civilization |
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| What was the political state of Greek city states like? |
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| free men running the state affairs, equality before the law, participation of citizen varied on cities |
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| Early on in Greece, who had rights to full citizenship? |
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| What were the rights of full citizens? |
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| speaking and voting in the public assembly, access to opublic office, fighting in the army |
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| By what year were almost all of the greek citizens involved in the government in Athens? |
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| Who broke the hold of aristocrats on polotics in Athens? |
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| a reformist leader named Solon |
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| What did solon do once he made athens more democratic? |
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| debt slavery was abolished, access to public office was widened, all citizens could participate in the assembly |
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| What type of democracy did athens have? |
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| Who was NOT allowed to participate in athenian democracy? |
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| women, slaves and foreigners |
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| What is sparta famous for? |
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| extreme miltiary discipline |
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| Who made up a large amount of Spartan population? |
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| conquered people who lived in slave like ocnditions |
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| Where was most of the spartan authority? |
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| 28 men over the age of 60, wealthy and influential, served for life |
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| the earliest greek philosopher, and the first to believe in rational explaintions of natural phenomena |
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| a greek philosoher, teacher of plato, didn't write anything down |
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| What was socrate's method? |
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| ask a question without revealing his own views |
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| What were most of socrates teachings about? |
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| a greek philosopoher, student of socrates, teacher of aristotle, wrote down socrates teachings |
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| Who founded the academy in Athens? |
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| a greek philosopher, student of plato, tutored alex the great |
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| where was Aritstole born? |
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| what were aristotle's main teachings? |
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| people had to study hard to gain control of desires, emphasized observation of the natural world and social analysis of the assumptions of logic and arguments |
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