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Geography
- Mountainious-raised sheep for meat & wool
- rocky soil-grew olives
- Surrounded by sea-traded for grain
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Athens
- Nice
- Smart
- Athletic
- Theatricle
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Sparta
- Violint
- Liked killing
- Dumb
- Long body hair
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How did the landscape of Greece affect the economy?
- Had to rely on sea
- Trade for food & supplies
- Had to grow crops that thrived in rocky soil
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Harbor
Sheltered places along the coast 4 ships and town peeps.
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Why is Attica a good place for trade?
They had many harbors for traders to use.
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How/Where did Greek cities first develop
Along sea trade routes, allowing these cities to grow and the people to communicate with other lands.
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Peninsula
Body of land w/ water on three sides.
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Who were the first inhabbitance of Greece?
- The Minoans, who were not Greek, on the island of Crete.
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How did the Minoans become traders?
- They were skillful sailors
- Built sturdy ships
- Sail long distances to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
- They traded pottery for ivory & medal
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Mycenaeans
- Invaded Greece form Central Asia
- Became frist Greek kings
- Major Trading power
- Copied Minoan and took over
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Dark Age
- Greeks forgot written language
- Trade slowed
- Poverty
- Bad farming
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Changes during the Dark Age
- Population shifted to Greek Islands & Turkey
- •Expanded Greek culture
- Surplus food & increased trade
- Picked up ideas/Greek alphebet
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Weapons
Iron Weapons were better than Bronze
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What is a colony
A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland.
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Acrapilis
- Gathering place at the top of the hill.
- Gathering place and religous center.
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Agora
A market & a place where people could debate.
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How did the creation of colonies affect trade?
- Colonists shiped the parent cities grains and metals while colonists recieved pottery & olive oil from the mainland.
- Led to the growth of industry
- Specilization such as pottery & jewelery
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Hoplites
- Greek Citizen Soldiers
- Marched in rows and fought for their city states
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Greek Citizenship
Greeks had the right to choose rulers and make laws, vote, own property. In return they had to serve in government and as citizen soldiers
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Why did Philip II want to take over Greece?
Philip needed to make the Greek city-states part of the kingdom so he would be powerful enough to conciet the Persian Empire
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Tyrant
- Someone who takes power by force
- Rules with total authority
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What led to the rise of Tyrants?
- Greek farmers, merchants, & artisans were unhappy with the nobles rules
- They wanted a say in the government
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Oligarghy
Few people holding power
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Democracy
All citizen sharing in running the government
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Life in Sparta...
- Men stayed in army until age 60Girls trained in sports
- Men entered army at age 20 and lived in barracks
- Boys trained for war
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Ephors
Enforced the laws of Sparta
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Spartan Government
- Oligarchy
- Ephors
- By focusing on military training, they fell behind in trade and science.
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Why was the military so important to the Spartans?
Spartans feared that enslaved Helots might rebel against Sparta
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Life in Athens
- Emphasized education over military strenghts
- Boys went to school
- Girls stayed home to learn household duties (some rich girls went to school)
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Color coating
- RED-ATHENS, BLUE-SPARTA, BLACK & YELLOW-LESSON 1 YELLOW AND ORANGE-LESSON 4
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How did Cleisthenes strengthen democracy in Athens?
- He created a 500 citizen council to carry out daily business.
- All male citizens could openly debate
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Darius
- Organized government to be better
- Divided empire into 20 Satrapies
- Organized Persian government to work better
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Xerxes
- Invaded Greece with 180,000 troops
- Son of Darius
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Cyrus the Great
- United Persians into powerful kingdom
- Royal Road
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What purpose did the Royal Road serve?
Connected many the many cities in the Persian Empire
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Satrap
Protector of the kingdom
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Zoroastrianism
Persian's religion
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How did the Athenians win the battle of Marathon?
- They knew they did not have enough soldiers to attack the Persians
- Persians had twice as many soldiers GRAM CRAPERS
- They waited until the strongest part of Persian army boarded a ship to Athens and then attacked the few remaining soldiers on foot.
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What events led up to the Persian War?
- The Greek city-states set up colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Greeks clashed with the Persians
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How was Greece able to win the war against the Persians
All the Greek city-states came together to form a large army and Greeks had smaller and faster ships.
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Delian League
- City states joined together to ward off threat of Persians
- But NOT Sparta
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Direct Democracy
People gather at mass meetings to decide on government matters
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Representative Democracy
Citizens choose a smaller group to make lawa and governmental decisions.
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Similarity between Direct & Represenative Democracy
Citizens have a say in how they are governed
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Strengths of Delian League before and after 450 BC
- Before - formed to defend against Persia and drive Persians out of Greek territories in Asia Minor. Athens controlled the league with a strong navy used to fight the persians.
- After - Treasury moved to Athens. Athens gained power and sent troops to other city states to help common people rebel agains nobles in power.
- Beginning of Athenian empire and classical age.
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How did poor citizens become more involved in government?
Pericles allowed lower class citizens to run for public office.
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What effects did the Peloponnesian war have on Greece?
- All of the Greek city states were weakened.
- Many people died in the fighting and thousands of farms were destroyed.
- People were jobless amd it was impossible for Greeks to unite.
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Pericles
- Athenian General who guided Athens for 30 years
- Help them dominate Delian League
- Demanded strict loyalty and steady payments from ohter city states.
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Peloponnesian War
- Athens was getting too rich and powerful so other city states grew suspicious and joined forces against Athens.
- Lasted 27 years
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How was Athens defeated in the Pelo. War?
Sparta did not have a navy, so they made a deal with Persia, giving them some Greek land, in exchange for money to build a navy which destroyed the Athenian navy.
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Where/when did the Greeks defeat the Persians
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Famous speech by Pericles reminding people of the power of democracy and gave them courage to keep fighting the Pelo war
Funeral Oration
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