City-States
Name for the Greek city-state
What is a polis?
City-states first originated at this time
What is the Bronze Age (1200 BC)?
Reason for the need to colonize
What is need for natural resources that Greece lacked?
Number of social classes in Greek society
What is four?
Significance of Greek city-states
What is they became seafarers, 40% of the Greek population lived abroad, the pattern of urban civilization spread through the Mediterranean and Black Seas?
"High part" of a city-state
What is an acropolis?
Archaeological ruins of the Mycenaeans
What are palaces?
2 motivating factors for colonization
What is new opportunity, land hunger, wanderlust, getting rid of troublemakers, opportunities for second and third sons?
Third class occupants
Double: name their rights
Who are the Metics? ... citizens of other city-states?
Double: what are full legal rights, can own property?
Sea between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
Gathering place within the city-state
What is an agora?
Rulers of the Mycenaeans
What are warrior kings?
Greek island first to colonize
What is Euboea?
Second class occupants
Double it: Rights of the Second class of Greek society
Who are the wives and children of citizens?
Double: What are full legal rights, representation by their menfolk?
Location of Troy
What is Anatolia, Asia Minor, or Turkey?
Two parts of a city-state
What are the urban part and the surrounding countryside?
Greek civilization which brought about a "Dark Age"
Who are the Dorians?
First Greek colony abroad
What is Al Mina?
Name the First class
Double it: describe their rights
Who are the Polites/citizens?
Double: What is having full political and legal rights (own land, vote, be elected, serve on jury), adult men over the age of 18, sons of two citizen parents
An epic of Homer
What is the Iliad, or The Odyssey?
Name for tribes or family groups living within a city-state
What are phylae or phratries?
Reason for the "Dark Ages"
What is the lack of written records?
Population of Greece in 500 BC
Double it: Percentage living abroad
What is 60,000?
Double: What is 40%
Greek name of the second class
Who are the Ephebos?
First Greek island to colonize
What is Euboea?