Classical Greece Test Review

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• Classical Greece Test Review

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1. ?Europe ?Peninsula ?Surrounded by Aegean
and Med. Sea ?Many
mountains
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2. ?mountains isolated them politically
?mountains limited their food supply therefore
limiting their food supply
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• 2. ?Seas were used for highways
• for TRANSPORTATION and
• TRADE
• ?Trade was necessary because
• Greece lacks many natural
• resources

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• Impact of Dorians
• ?Period of decline
• ?No written
• records

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• ?Famous blind storyteller
• ?Told The Illiad and The
• Odyssey

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• Polis is a Greek city-state
• ?Sparta and Athens

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• 6. Phalanx is a military formation used by the
  Greeksshoulder to shoulder, spear in one hand,
  shield in the other.

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• Sparta won the Peloponnesian War
• ?most of the war was
• fought on land and Sparta
• had a stronger army

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• 9. Pericles made Athens into a direct democracy
  and paid public officials, therefore the poor
  could take part in govt and look out for their
  rights

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• 10. Golden Age is a time of peace and prosperity
• ?Led to cultural
• developments art,
• literature, drama,
• philosophy, govt,
• architecture and science

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• 11. Philosophy

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• ?Drama
• 1. Tragedyserious drama
• about common themes
• 2. Comedycontained slapstick humor and
  situations

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• ?Art
• ?Greek Sculpture figures
• were graceful, strong and
• serene
• ?Classical artvalued
• order, balance and
• proportion
• REALISTIC!

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Diskobolos by Myron 460-450 BC
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• Architecture columns
• Doric Ionic Corinthian

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Lincoln Memorial
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• ?Science Aristotle

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• ?Government
• ?Athens had a direct
• democracy - ruled directly
• and not through
• representatives.

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12. King Philip II of Macedonia conquered Greece
after the Peloponnesian War
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• 13. Alexander the Great built an empire

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13. Alexander the Great created Hellenistic
Culture
Hellenistic Culture
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• Alexandria was a the crossroads of three
  continents
• Europe
• Asia
• Africa

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• Hellenistic Culture
• ?Math Euclid (geometry)
• and Archimedes (pi)
• ?Physics lever and pulley

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• Hellenistic Culture
• ?Philosophy
• -Stoicism-deny pleasure
• -Epicureans-indulge in
• pleasure

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AstronomyAlexandria contained a small
observatory in which astronomers
could study the planets and stars