Terms and Identifications I
A type of Greek government in which all citizens administered the workings of government.
What is democracy?
A public open space used for assemblies and markets.
What is an agora?
The spread of Greek ideas, culture, and traditions to non-Greek groups across a wide area.
What is Hellenization?
The home region of Alexander the Great
A Macedonian known for creating the largest empire that had ever existed at the time.
Who is Alexander the Great?
A gathering of animals known as "a murder"
What is a group of crows?
A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill.
What is an acropolis?
An ancient Greek temple noted for its circular ground plan.
What is a tholos?
The style of vase/ Amphora created in the Greek Archaic period. Developed a natural glaze after firing, and then was scraped to produce an image.
What is a Black-Figure Vase?
A warrior society in ancient Greece that reached the height of its power after defeating rival city-state Athens in the Peloponnesian war.
What is Sparta?
A famous Greek playwright. Known for his tragedies, such as 'Oedipus the King'.
Who is Sophocles?
The city which served as the capital of the United States from 1785-1790.
What is New York?
Generally, this term is translated as "city-state", it was the basic political and institutional unit of Greece in the Hellenic period.
What is a polis?
Unfree residents of Sparta forced to work state lands.
What are helots?
A group of thinkers in fifth-century BCE Athens who applied philosophical speculation to politics and language - were accused of deceit.
Who are the Sophists?
A Greek city-state, known for its experiments with democracy, rulers such as Draco and Solon, was conquered by Sparta.
What is Athens?
A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught Plato and founded the Lyceum.
Who is Aristotle?
Where did Mr. Weiss go to high school?
Corona del Sol
Women's quarters at the back of a typical Athenian house where the women of the family and female slaves usually worked, ate, and slept.
What is the gynaeceum?
Rule by one man who took over an existing government, generally by using his wealth to gain a political following.
What is tyranny?
A military alliance led by Athens whose aims were to protect the Aegean Islands, liberate Ionia from Persian rule, and keep the Persians out of Greece.
What is the Delian League?
Functionally a peninsula separating the Black and Mediterranean sea - modern-day Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
A famous Greek playwright known for his comedies - often contained mature themes and political commentary.
Who is Aristophanes?
Explain how the geography of Greece shaped its earliest kingdoms, and identify the factors that contributed to the decline of those kingdoms.
- patchwork of high mountains/ small plains - political fragmentation/ communication was poor/ prohibited empire growth - development of tiny city-states
-collapse caused by invasions, migrations, adoption of iron weapons and natural disasters.
In what year did the United States of America purchase the territory that became the state of Alaska?
1867
A type of Greek government in which citizens who owned a certain amount of property ruled.
What is an oligarchy?
An order of Ancient Greecian column, noted for its plain and unadorned capital.
What is the Doric Order?
Belief systems that were characterized by secret doctrines, rituals of initiation, and sometimes the promise of rebirth or an afterlife.
What are mystery religions?
The African region that was ruled by the Ptolemys in the Hellenistic Period.
What is Egypt?
A polymath and inventor, known for the development of measuring volume by displacing water.
Who is Archimedes?
Analyze and describe the role and features of the polis in Greek society.
- independent city-state, community of citizens with unique customs and laws - distinctively Greek concept
- asty, chora, temples, altars, public monuments, public square (agora)
The term used to describe a person who shoes horses.
a farrier
Heavily armed citizens who served as infantry troops and fought to defend the polis.
What are hoplites
An order of Greek column noted for the spiral fluting of it's capital.
What is the Ionic Order
According to Plato, the eternal, unchanging ideal forms that are the essence of true reality.
What are the Platonic Ideals?
Considered to be the founder of Stoicism.
Who is Zeno?
Discuss the spread of Greek ideas and traditions across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
- Alexander the great, founded cities, military colonies, building of roads, libraries, education, markets, blending of cultures as opposed to replacement
In what years was Mr. Weiss in 6th Grade?
1999-2000