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Greece Study Guide
IDENTIFICATIONS!
Source Book readings
Describe the role of geography in the development of Greece:
1) Explain how geography affected govt and society:
2) Athens and Sparta- Documentsa. Pericles- what was expected of citizens?
b. What is meant by the School of Hellas?
c. What did Athenians do for fun (activities/ entertainment)?
d. Describe Athenian military training:
e. Plutarch- describe Spartan attitudes to infants:
f. Describe Spartan schools:
g. What are the goals of Spartan education:
Explain the rise and fall of Athenian power and the role of war:
3) What was the role of the Sea People in the Aegean?
4) Who fought the Trojan War?
5) Explain the impact of the Trojan War:
6) Explain the cause of the Persian War:
7) Who were the two Persian rulers during the war?
8) Contrast Marathon and Thermopylae:
9) How did the Spartans lose at Thermopylae?
10) Explain the course and impact of the Persian War:
11) Explain the Delian League
12) Explain the cause, course, and impact of the Peloponnesian War:
13) Describe the political conditions of Greece after the war:
Explain the growth of democracy in Athens:
14) How did Draco, Solon, and Cleisthenes each help democracy to develop?
15) How are Athenian laws different from those in the ancient world?
16) Who couldn’t participate in govt?
17) What was the role of women in Greece?
18) What were the political activities of Pericles?
19) How was Pericles different than pharaoh?
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Greece Study Guide
Describe Athenian culture and contributions to Western Civ:
20) Describe Greek art- sculpture and pottery
21) Describe the Parthenon: purpose, what does it tell us about Greece?
22) Describe characteristics of Greek architecture:
23) Describe Greek religion/ mythology:
24) Describe Greek theater:
25) Why was Herodotus the Father of History
26) Contrast Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides:
27) Describe Greek Philosophy
28) Describe Greek humanism
29) Explain the ideas of Socrates/ what happened to him
30) Explain the ideas of Plato
31) Explain the ideas of Aristotle
Explain the collapse of Athenian power and the rise of Alexander:
32) What did Philip II do to Greece, how possible?
33) What did Alexander the Great do militarily:
culturally:
34) Describe Alexander’s governing style and political actions:
35) Explain what happened to his empire and why:
Explain how Alexander impacted the Greek civ and spread its ideals:
36) Define Hellenism
37) What was its capital city:
38) Describe the new developments in science:
math:
39) Explain how philosophy changed
40) Describe the ideas of Hellenistic philosophers
41) Explain four ways that art/culture changed
Describe Hellenistic Contributions to Western Civilizations:
42) Which is better, Classical or Hellenistic Greece?
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