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| What were the 3 goals of Pericles? |
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| 1)To strengthen Athenian Democracy. 2)To hold and strengthen the empire. 3)to glorify Athens. |
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| Who led Athens during its Golden age and for how long? |
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| What did Pericles do to strengthen Athen's democracy and what did it cause? |
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| He increased the number of public officials that were paid salaries, causing more citizens to be engaged in self-government. |
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| Who could serve in the government and how? |
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| Even the poorest could serve if they got elected or chosen by lot. |
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| What is a direct democracy? |
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| A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives. |
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| Where did Pericles get the money to build up the Athenian Navy? |
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| The money from the Delian League. |
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| What did Pericles do to "beautify Athens?" |
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He borrowed more money from the Delian League without asking and convinced the Assembly to vote huge sums of $ to buy gold, ivory, and marble to build the Parthenon with a small army of
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| How long did it take to build the Parthenon? |
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| Who did the style of the Parthenon honor? |
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| What set the standards for future generations of artists around the world? |
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| The examples of Greeks art in Parthenon. |
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| Who helped to sculpt much of Parthenon and the statues inside it? |
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| What became the standard for classical art? |
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| The values of order, balance, and proportion that Greek sculptors used to try to capture the grace of the idealized human body in motion. |
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| The Greeks invented____ and built the first______ in the west. |
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| The Greeks invented drama and built the first theaters in the west. |
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| What were both an expression of civic pride and a tribute to the gods? |
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| Athenian Theatrical Productions |
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| Who payed the cost of producing the plays? |
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| Wealthy Citizens payed for them as a part of their civic duty |
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| A serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal featured around a tragic hero who has extraordinary abilities, but there downfall is often a result of a tragic flaw. |
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| An error in judgement or personality defect, such as excessive pride. |
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| Who were the three notable Greek dramatists? |
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| Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. |
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| Who wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone? |
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| A play that has scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor. |
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| Works that poked fun at a subject. |
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| What did playwrites make fun of? |
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| Customs, Politics, Respected People, or Ideas of the time;showing the public openness of discussions in their democracy. |
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| How did Athens change from the time of the Persian Wars to the Peloponnesian War? |
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| The Athenian Navy had vastly grown. |
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| Who had the advantage on land/sea in the Peloponnesian War? |
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| Land-Spartans;Sea-Athenians |
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| What killed one to two thirds of Athens' population including Pericles? |
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| What happened to the Athenian fleet that went to destroy the polis at Syracuse(one of Sparta's allies)? |
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| They were badly beaten, and almost everything was destroyed. |
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| How long was the Peloponnesian War? |
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| What happened after Athens and its allies surrendered? |
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| General confidence in democratic government weakened. One leader after another proved to be weak, corrupt, or traitorous. |
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| The great thinkers that emerged in this time period that were determined to seek the truth, no matter where their search led them. "Philosophers" means "lovers of wisdom." |
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| What are the two assumptions of the Greek philosophers? |
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| 1)The universe is put together in an orderly way, and subject to absolute and unchanging laws. 2)People can understand these laws through logic and reason. |
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| A group of philosophers that questioned people's unexamined beliefs and ideas about justice and other traditional values. |
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| Who was one of the most famous sophists and what did he do? |
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| Protagoras- he took a position questioning the existence to the Greek gods and argued that there was no universal standard for truth(Dangerous ideas to the people of Athens). |
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| Who was Socrates and what did he do? |
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| He was a philosopher that was a critic to the Sophists, but he encouraged people to question themselves and their moral character.When he was 70, he was brought to trial for "corrupting the young minds of Athens and neglecting the city's gods. He was condemned to death and was killed by a slow-acting poison. |
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| He was a philosopher and a student of Socrates. He wrote down some of the conversations he had with his teacher as a way of philosophical investigation. He wrote "The Republic," and it was about his vision of a perfectly governed society(yet it wasnt a democracy). In it, people fell naturally into three groups:farmers and artisans, warriors, and the ruling class. The person with the greatest intellect was chosen philosopher-king. His writings dominated philosophical thinking in Europe for over 1,500 years. |
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| A philosopher that questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge. He invented a method to solving in the fields of psychology, physics, and biology by arguing according to the rules of logic(ex: the scientific method used today). He taught Alexander the Great. |
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| Which god was the olympics dedicated to? |
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| What did the greeks do so athletes could compete? |
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| suspend wars between city-states |
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| Who made the statue depicting a discus thrower? |
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| A sport native to Japan that was sponsored by imperial families. Wrestlers wear loincloths and battle each other within a 15-foot circle. All use their size and strength to overpower opponents(often heavier than 300 pounds). Still common today. |
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| What were the Mayan ball courts? |
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| A site in Chichen-Itza where participants tried to get a ball through a stone ring without touching it with their hands(like from El Dorado); losers were usually sacrificed to the gods. |
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| What is the most-popular sport in the world? |
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| soccer-developed in england during the 1800's |
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