Ancient Greece
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 why Greece what divided | mountainis geogrophy |
| what sea did for Greece | helped trade, |
| People who were first at Greece | Mycenaeans |
| People who Mycenaens fought | Trojans |
| Aegean Sea | sea between greece and turkey |
| Ionian Sea | Sea south of Italy and west of Greece |
| City-state | has its own government and wasn't part of any larger unit |
| Mycenae | the Mycenean capitol. |
| Paris | Prince of Troy who fell in love with Helen and captured her |
| Helen | Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta. frHer abduction om Sparta by the Trojans sparked the Trojan War. Her beauty is without parallel, but she is criticized for giving in to her Trojan captors and thereby costing many Greek men their lives. She offers Telemachus assistance in his quest to find his father. |
| Agamemnon | king and leader of Greek forces in trojan war |
| Menelaus | king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, wife of Helen |
| Trojan Horse | a huge hollow woden horse filled with greek soldiers left by greeks as a symbol of defeat to trojans, greek soldiers came out and saked city |
| Heinrich Schliemann | German, pretty much proved trojan war |
| Dorians | not very advaced, sent greek into dark age |
| Homer | blind bard, TOLD epics, Odyssey, Illiad |
| Arete | sense of personal honor and glory (achived in battle) |
| Zeus | king of all gods |
| Mt. Olympus | where gods live |
| Hera | Zeus's wife |
| polis | Greek city-state |
| acropolis | fortified hill top in a polis used for important meetings |
| agora | market place in an acroplis |
| Monarch | king or queen (hereditary) |
| Aristocracy | run by nobles (wealthy land owners) (hereditary) |
| Oligarchy | government by a few (powerfull people) |
| Democracy | ruled by people |
| Tyrant | person who gains power by apealing to people |
| Draco | got rid of debt slavery every one equal death penalty |
| Solon | established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt |
| Cleisthenes | An aristocrat, created a council of 500 and helped from Athenian democracy |
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