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early Greeks
lived on island of Crete
wrote in Linear A
fall due to natural disasters and Mycenaeans |
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| founded Knossos and the Minoans |
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| capital of the the Minoans |
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Trojan War
shaft and beehive graves
Linear B writing system
frescos of war
Agamemnon's mask |
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| three main city-states of the Mycenaeans |
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| where Trojan War took place |
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occupied Greece during the Dark Ages
(period of no writing) |
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| famous storyteller of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
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| story about the Trojan War |
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| story about Odysseus's journey home from the Trojan War |
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| a long story (told orally) about a famous or heroic person |
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| stories that are not true and usually have supernatural beings |
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| highest part of a Greek city usually heavily fortified |
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| a public open space used for assemblies and markets |
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| person with the support of the commoners |
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| made the Council of Nobles in Athens |
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| started direct democracy and created the Council of 500 in Athens |
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| made of random citizens (males over age of 30) |
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another city in Greece
rival city of Athens |
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| special council that made laws in Sparta |
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| conquered by the Spartans |
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| peasants forced to stay on land they worked (Messenians) |
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in honor of Zeus
on Mt. Olympus
women had own Olympics |
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wars between Greece and Persians Empire
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| battle in Persian War where Athens defeats Persians |
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| battle in Persian War where Spartans make a sacrifice at the narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae |
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| town on Cyprus (myth: thought to have been carried away by Poseidon) |
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| League formed after Persian Wars with Athens as its leader |
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| statesman who led Athens during much of its "Golden Age" |
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| where the people rule directly |
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| art with serene face, ideal image |
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| drama with a tragic hero who is great but has one tragic flaw that is his downfall (usually excessive pride) |
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| Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides |
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| drama that makes fun of politics and respected people and ideas of the time |
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| believes that one must learn from history's past mistakes |
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war between Sparta and Athens
Sparta eventually wins |
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| 1st philiospher who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock |
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student of Socrates
later, founded a school called Academy |
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a student of Socrates
famously, tutored Alexander the Great |
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| joined the Greece in defending against King Philip but failed |
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| where King Philip II defeats the Greeks |
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sone of King Philip II
eventually conquered Persian Empire, Greeks, Mesopotamia, and some of India |
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| Alexander marches across Hellespont into Anatolia and Persia |
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| Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela |
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battles against Darius of the Persian Empire
eventually defeats hims |
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| Alexander's general who gets Greece and Macedonia |
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| Alexander's general who gets the Persian Empire |
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| Alexander's general who gets Egypt |
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| culture mixture of Egypt, Persia, India |
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city named after Alexander the Great in Egypt
port city |
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gods have no interst in humans
live in pleasure |
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