Chapter 4 People
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Minoans
- earned a living from sea trade
- mycenaeans
- served as both centers of the goverment administration and production
- schliemann
- a german archaeoligist
- minos
- ruled over minoan civilization
- homer
- blind poet who lived during the 700's bc
-
draco
tyrant - stric code of laws
-
solon
tyrant - leader who improved economic conditions
-
peisitratus
tyrant - divided large estates among land-less farmers
-
cleisthenes
tyrant - allowed alot of people to participate in the goverment
- darius
- persian king who defeted ionians then set ou to punish the greeks
- xeres
- invaded greece from the north and the son of darius
- themistocles
- athen general who thought that the greeks should challange persians at sea (wooden wall)
- leonidas
- stood firm against the persians and the spartan king who led the battle of thermopylae
- pericles
- athen general who led athens throught its golden age
- cyrus II
- persian who concured ionia- 546 bc