World History & Civilization.txt

An ancient Minoan city on the island of Crete

Areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses

Took place around 1250 B.C. and it originated w/ the economic rivalry between Mycenae & Troy(M: Turkey)

Narrow water passage

He probably lived around 750 B.C. & he supposedly was a blind poet who wandered fom village to village singing heroic deeds. His stories were eventually written down

City-state

High city w/ its great marble temples dedicated to diff. gods and goddesses

Free resident share a sense of responsibility for its triumphs & defeats

A gov in which a king or queen excercises central power

Rule by a hereditary landowning elite(upper class)

Gov in which ruling power belongs to a few people

A massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers

Dorian invaders conquered Laconia in the southern part of the Peloponnesus, which they settled & built the city-state Sparta

Located in Attica & it was a Greek city-state that went from a monarchy to an aristocracy

Gov by the people

Lawmaking body

A formal agreement between 2 or more nations or powers to cooperate & come to 1 anothers defense

After the Persian Wars from 460-429 B.C. under the able statesman he led a golden age for Athens w/ his wisdom and skillful leadership which made the economy thrive & the gov became more democratic

Is what Pericles used which is a system of gov where citizens participate directly in the day-to-day affairs of gov rather than through elected representatives

Fixed salary given to public office holders

Legal group of people sworn to make a decision a legal case

Practice used in ancient Greece to banish or send away a public figure who threatened democracy

Someone who seeks to understand & explain life; a person who studies philosophy

Rational thinking

The art of skillful speaking

An outspoken critic of the Sophists & an Athenian stonemason amd philosopher

He was Socrates student & most of what we know about Socrates comes from Plato

He was one of Plato's most famous students & he developed & analyzed his ideas about each type of gov

Most famous example of Greek architecture & is a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena

Plays that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster

Humorous plays that mocked people or customs

He is often called the "Father of History" in the Western world, because he went beyond listing the names of rulers or the retelling of ancient lands

After Athens fell to Macedonia & both Athens & other Greek city-states lost their freedom, a new age spread from the Mediterranean to borders of India was the product of the man who would become known as Alexander the Great

Lived in Thebes & came to Greece to admire its culture. He also hired Aristotle to tutor his son, Alexander

The murder of a public figure, usually for a political reasons

Absorbed

An ancient Hellenistic city in Egypt

In mathematics he derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle

Sun-centered, solar system wasn't accepted by most scientists until about 2,000 years later

He was the most famous Hellenistic scientist who applied principles of physics to make practical inventions

A Greek physician who studied the causes of illnesses & looked for cures

Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster