Vocabulary
belief in many Gods
polytheistic
Much of what we know about Minoan life came from what?
frescoes
city-states
author of Iliad and Odyssey
Homer
Trojan War involved the Mycenaeans and ???
Troy
paintings in watercolor on wet plaster
frescoes
Minoan civilization was based on
Trade
Military & strict control
Sparta
Plato wrote The Republic that said who should be ruling?
philosopher-kings
Peloponnesian War was fought between
Athens and Sparta
narrow water passage
strait
What civilization contributed to the fall of the Minoans?
Mycenaeans
Cleisthenes was a positive reformer and set up Council of 500, form of legislature
Athens
Socratic Method used these in debates and when seeking truth and knowledge
questions
This group of people were inside the Trojan Horse
Greeks
Minoan city with a palace that housed the royal family, located in Crete
Knossos
The reason why the Minoan Civilization failed
invaders
isolated themselves and looked down on trading
Sparta
believed in the "golden mean" & left writings on topics that are used in universities
Aristotle
This was a major source of information about the Trojan War
Iliad and Odyssey
highest and most fortified point in a Greek city-state
acropolis
seals & disks
enslaved people worked the land
Athens and Sparta
Died from drinking poison
Socrates
Who won the Trojan War?
Greeks