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Review Sheet for Ancient Greece
1. Minoans
a. Important Leaders
b. Important characteristics of Civilization
c. Describe their artwork and what it revealed
2. Mycenaean’s
a. Describe who the Mycenaean’s were as a civilization?
b. Who over took this civilization and what would be the impact of this change?
c. Why would this be known as the Dark Ages?
3. What role would the geography play in ancient Greece?
a. Mountains
b. How would the Greek colonies easily be reached?
c. Identify Athens, Aegean Sea, Sparta
4. Homer
a. Iliad
b. Odyssey
c. Epic
5. Architecture in Ancient (famous works)
a. Role of the temple
b. Classical Architecture
c. Parthenon
d. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
6. Persian War
a. Thermopylae (Main Points, What happened?)
b. Salamis
c. Marathon
d. Herodotus
7. City States of Athens & Sparta
a. Athens (Government, Tyrants, Democracy)
i. Who can vote in Athens over the years?
ii. Leadership
iii. Describe the function of the typical Athenian family
iv. What was the result of reforms by Cleisthenes in Athens?
b. Sparta
i. Education
ii. Military
iii. Politics (oligarchy) What does this mean?
8. Ostracism
9. Pericles
a. Delian League
10. Peloponnesian War
a. Success (won/lost)
b. Effect on Greece
11. Hellenistic time period
a. What does the term mean?
b. What were the effects on culture during this time period?
12. Greek Festivals
a. Who celebrated?
b. For what reason?
13. Role of Greek religion
a. Role of Priests, Oracles, and Temples
b. Describe who could participate in religious services and why?
c. Where was the religious center located in the city-state?
d. Who was the chief God in Greece and what was his impact?
e. Polytheistic
14. Government
a. Tyranny
b. Democracy
c. Oligarchy
d. Describe what government would develop after the fall of Tyrannical rulers in Ancient
Greece.
15. Greek Philosophy (define)
a. Sophists (main characteristics)
b. Socrates
i. Famous quote about the unexamined life?
c. Plato
i. What was Plato’s most famous work and why?
ii. According to Plato what role would a just and rational state play?
d. Aristotle
e. Epicurus and the goal of life
f. Stoicism – Where can happiness only be found?
16. Polis
a. Agora
17. Greek Comedy and Drama
a. Oedipus rex
b. Sophocles
18. Alexander the Great
a. What was the Hellenistic Era and how did it shape Greek language and Greek ideas?
b.
Cultural diffusion in Southeast Asia
c. What are the four kingdoms that emerged following Alexander’s Death?
d. Phillip II
19. Thucydides and his role as an Ancient historian
20. Mathematician Euclid
a. Elements