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Seminar World: Classical Civilizations Vocabulary Refer to Chapters 5 and 6 in your text. Explain the significance of each as it relates to history. Greece 1. Mycenaeans 2. Minoans – 3. Dorians – 4. Homer (Epics) – 5. polis – 6. acropolis – 7. agora – 8. city-states – 9. Sparta – 10. Helots – 11. Athens 12. democracy – 13. Solon – 14. Cleisthenes – 15. Phalanx – 16. Persian Wars – 17. Xerxes – 18. Battle of Thermopylae – 19. Pericles – 20. direct democracy – 21. Peloponnesian War – 22. Socrates – 23. Socratic Method – 24. Plato – 25. Aristotle – 26. The Iliad - 27. The Odyssey – 28. Herodotus – 29. Drama – Tragedy (Sophocles) v. Comedy (Aristophanes) – 30. Architecture & Art – Parthenon, Sculpture – 31. Philip II & Macedonia – 32. Demosthenes – 33. Alexander the Great – 34. Alexandria – 35. Hellenism – 36. Euclid – 37. Eratosthenes – 38. Archimedes – Rome 39. Romulus & Remus 40. Etruscans 41. republic 42. patricians 43. plebeians 44. Twelve Tables 45. forum 46. Senate 47. consuls 48. Punic Wars 49. Hannibal 50. Scipio – 51. Tiberius Gracchus – 52. Gaius Gracchus – 53. Gaius Marius – 54. Julius Caesar – 55. First Triumvirate – 56. Octavian (Augustus) – 57. Second Triumvirate – 58. Pax Romana – 59. Five Good Emperors – a. Trajan – b. Hadrian – 60. aqueducts – 61. Colosseum – 62. Pantheon – 63. Virgil’s Aeneid – 64. Christianity – 65. Jesus of Nazareth – 66. Paul of Tarsus – 67. Diocletian – 68. Constantine – 69. Attila the Hun – Short Answers 1. How did the rugged geography influence the development of Greek civilization? 2. Was the Athenian system of government superior or inferior to the Spartan system? 3. How did the basic philosophy of Aristotle differ from that of Socrates and Plato? 4. How might European history have been different if Alexander had not died so young? 5. Why was the Roman Republic’s government split into three separate parts? 6. What was Augustus’s greatest achievement as emperor? Why? 7. Why did Christianity spread so quickly through the Roman world? 8. List and rank four factors that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire.
