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Mrs.Solecky
Global I
Flashcard Review
Ancient Greece
95.
Civilization:
- located on a peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea
-Development into separate city-states such as Athens and
Sparta
-Polytheistic
-Achievements:
• Democracy
• Olympic Games
• Parthenon
• Greek columns: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
• Iliad and Odyssey
• Philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
95A.
Greeks
96.
Mountains that cover the
Greek peninsula that resulted
in the development of
separate, independent citystates
96A.
Pindus Mountains
97.
Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
97A.
Homer
98.
Name for a city-state in ancient Greece
98A.
Polis
99.
Massive military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
working together in a tight formation developed by the
Ancient Greeks.
.
99A.
Phalanx
100.
Greek city-state that glorified the concept of individualism and
developed the concept of direct democracy –direct vote, jury
system, three branches of government
->Famous Athenian Statesman Pericles
.
100A.
Athens
101.
System of government in which citizens participate directly in
the day to day affairs of government rather through elected
representatives.
EX. Athens
101A.
Direct Democracy
102.
Greek city-states that glorified the military and the state and
had a strict control over the lives of its citizens
102A.
Sparta
103.
Macedonian King in the 4th century B.C
-conquered most of the Ancient worldnamed cities after
himself
-Created the Hellenistic Age
-Preserved and spread Greek culture
103A.
Alexander the Great
104.
Period of history in which Greek, Persian, Indian and Egyptian
ideas and cultures are blended
104A.
Hellenistic Age or Hellenistic Culture