history study guide quater 2 test 1
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- Europa
- Daughter of the king of Phoenicia. a continents name is based off of hers
- zeus
- king of the gods
- minoan civilization
- 1750 b.c. to 1500 b.c.
- shrines
- areas dedicated to the honor of the gods and goddesses
- Frescoes
- watercolor paintings done on wet plaster.
- Mycenean
- 1400 b.c. to 1200 b.c.
- how are the Myceneans best remembered?
- they are best remembered from their part in the trojan war.
- straits
- narrow water passages that connect medditerainean and black seas.
- the age of homer
- 1100 b.c. to 800 b.c.
- what two epic poems gave hints about age of homer life?
- lliad and the odyssey
- phoenician alphabet
- invented by the greeks
- polis
- unique version of greece.
- acropolis
- the high city.
- monarchy
- a government where a king or queen has dominate rule.
- aristocracy
- rule by a landholding elite.
- do greeks believe in polytheistic ways of religion or monotheistic?
- POLYTHEISTIC
- what did greeks call inferior non greeks?
- barbaroi
- who was the wealtheist greek city state and when were the the wealtheist?
- Athens
- direct democracy
- when citizens take part in direct day affairs with the government
- stipend
- fixed salary
- jury
- panel of citizns that help take part in a trial
- ostracism
- to send away a citizen who was thought as a threat to democracy.
- peloponnesian war
- 431 B.C. to 404 B.C.
- logic
- rational thinking
- rhetoric
- the art of skillful speaking
- socrates
- An Athenian stonemason and philosopher
- plato
- emphasized the importance in reason. thought men surpass women in mental AND physical tasks.
- aristotle
-
plato's most famous student.
he anazlyzed all forms of government and found good and bad examples of each. - parthenon
- most famous example of athenian artchitecture
- who were the greatest athenian playwriter's?
- sophocles, aeschylus, and euripides.
- trajadies
- told of human suffering stories that mostly ended in disastor.
- lysistrata
- famous athenian comedy
- philip
- king who gained the throne in 359 b.c.
- who conquered persia
- Alexander
- in what year did alexander take babylon?
- 331 b.c.
- how did alexander feel towards his empire as he lay dying?
- "to the strongest"
- assimilated
- the absorbing of ideals
- name some accomplisments of the hellenistic period
- pythagorean theorum and the theory of a heliocentric or sun centered solar system