S.S. 3rd trimester study guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Herodotus | Poet who read his account of the Persian wars; considered the father of history |
| Aristophranes | writer of comedic plays |
| Socrates | Athenian philosopher interested in the thinking process who was put on trial and made to drink hemlock juice |
| Aristotle | greek philosopher who classified plants and animals that resembled each other |
| Hippocrates | Scientist considered the father of scientific medicine |
| Plato | pupil of socrates and founder of the Academy |
| Euripides | Writer of Tragedies about suffering caused by people doing bad things |
| Thales | Scientist who developed the first two steps in the scientific method |
| Phillip 2 | King of Macedonia who wanted to unify the greek city-states and spread Greek culture |
| Alexander | King of Macedonia who wanted to bring unity and justice to his empire |
| Hellenistic Age | The period of Alexander's empire is known as |
| Aristotle | Alexander's teacher |
| Alexandria of Egypt | The cultural and itellectual center of Alexaner's empire |
| False | T/F Alexander conquered the persians and ten marced as far east as China |
| True | T/F Economic conditions became worse in the Greek city-states after Alexander's death |
| False | T/F After alexander's death , the empire was divided among three of his sons |
| False | T/F The harbors at Alexandria were protected by Alexandria's great navy |
| Agora | an open square or marketplace |
| Oligarchy | government controlled by a small group |
| helots | enslaved farm wokers of Sparta |
| Aristocrats | nobles who held poliltical power in Sparta |
| Constitution | rules and ideas by which a community is governed |
| Polis | geographic and political center of greek life |
| Democratic | favoring the equality of all people |
| periocis | merchants and artisans of Sparta |
| Assembly | grouop that passed laws and decided questions of war |
| Acropolis | fortified hill at the center of a city-state |
| Oracle | person that could speak to the gods |
| Prophecy | statement of what might happen in the future |
| Pancratium | fighting event that was a combination of boxing and wrestling |
| Hypothesis | Possible explanation |
| Syllogism | method of reasoning that uses related statements |
| intellect | the ability to learn and reason |
| scientific method | process used by scientist to study something |
| Euclid | Greek scientist who wrote a geometry book |
| Factories | places where quantities of goods are made |
| barbaroi | name used by greeks for all non-greek people |
| orator | person noted for skill in public speaking |
| hostage | person held by an enemy to ensure a bargain is kept |
| Around the agora | In ancient greece cities tended to develop _________ |
| Mount Olympus | The home of the greek gods was_______- |
| Aeschylus | what came known to be the play was created by |
| Greek comedies | had happy endings |
| Dionysus | Theater grew out of festivals honoring_______ |
| Tried to do things well for the gods | Best describes religion in ancient greece |
| Political Figures | Early Greek comedies poked fun at_______ |
| writers of tragedies | Sophocles and Euripides were famous_______ |
| HIs speeches and discussion written by Plato | What we know about Socrates' philosophy comes from |
| Political Science | Plato's is the first book written about |
| Hippocrates | Which greek thinker believed that illness came from natural causes not evil forces |
| Delian League | an alliance of city-states against Persia, led by Athens |
| Pericles | The leader who made Athens a center of art philosophy and architechture was__________ |
| Sparta | the last city-state to take over the leadership of an independent Greece was |
| Free adult men born in greece | Those who were considered citizens of a Greek city-states included |
| Military strength | The central interest of the city-state of Sparta was |
| Aristocrats | Sparta's army and government were run by |
| More athenians could take part in government | One important result of the reforms made in Athens by Solon was that |
| a council of 500 chosen by lot | After Cleisthenes made changesin the government the daily business of Athens was run by |
| Athens over the Persians | The battle of Marathon was an important victory for |
| Philip 2nd | The Greek city-states lost their independence in 338 B.C. when they were conquered by |
| They were of greek descent and admired greek culture | the kings of Macedonia different from ordinarypeople of their country in that |
| made public speeches warning the people | which was not a tactic used by phillip to take over the Greek city-states |
| the greek city states | As a general Alexander's first great victory was over |
| an increase in greek cultural influence | One result in alexander's conquests was |
| augustus | Real name of Octavian |
| Diocletian | Emperor who established rule by divine right |
| Constantine 1 | Emperor who built a new eastern capital for the roman Empire |
| Marcus Aurelius | Good Emperor who built the Pantheon |
| Augustus | Title taken by the first roman emperor |
| Adrianople | City where germans defeated the Roman army |
| Constantinople | City built as the new capital of the Roman empire |
| Alaric | Leader of germanic tribes that invaded Rome |
| Commudus | Emperor killed by his own bodyguards |
| Circus Maximus | Oval arena w/ a capacity of 200,000 people |
| High tariffs | which of these was not true of trade during the Pax romana |
| Establish empire as stable and peaceful | Augustus's main aim as Emperor was |
| Rhine and Danube Rivers | Under augustus The northern boundary of the empire was |
| Census | A population count that Augustus ordered was a |
| Pax Romana | a 200 year period of for Rome |
| Laws needed to be the same | Roman laws changed as ethe empire expanded because |
| win peoples votes | Roman politicians sponsored public games to |
| crowded apartments | Most city dwellers in Rome lived in |
| Adopted as heirs | Between 96 b.c. and 180 a.d. all roman emperors were |
| Unfair laws | which was not a cause of the fall of the roman empire |
| Patricians | members of Rome's oldest and richest families |
| Tribunes | offcials who protected the rights of the Plebians |
| Publicans | tax collectors on the Roman provinces |
| Triumvirate | Three person group of Rulers |
| Legionaries | soldiers in the Roman army |
| Plebians | Ordinary citizens of Rome |
| Consuls | Administrative and military leaders of the Roman republic |
| Dictator | one ruler who has absolute power |
| Veto | power to cancel out another persons decision |
| Latifundias | large farm estates near Rome |
| The patricians | In the early years of the Roman repubic real political power belonged to |
| Laws were public | the Twelve Tables were an impotant step because |
| A republic | After the Romans overthrew their etruscan king, they created |
| The whole italian penninsula | By about 275 b.c. the territory controlled by Rome included |
| Rome and Carthage | the punic wars were a long series of conflicts between |
| Spain, North Africa, and sicily | Rome's victory in the Punic wwars brought it territory in |
| Reforms by the gracchus brothers | which of these was not a hardship for Roman farmers |
| Gaius Marius | the military hero who began paying proffesional soldiers to jon te army was |
| senators who feard of him becoming king | The goup who planned to kill julius caesar included |
| Victory for Octavian | The civil war that followed the death of Caesar ended with |
| Mundus | the meeting point for the worlds of the living and the dead marked by a stone where two streets met |
| Catacombs | underground tombs carved in rock |
| Fasces | bundle of rods bound around an ax used to symbolise authority |
| Omens | events interpreted as signs of the future |
| Aeneas | Trojan Hero legendary founder of the Roman people |
| Triumph | Process honoring a hero |
| Latins | First Settlers of land near Rome |
| Necropolis | Cementary area containing many tombs |
| Forum | public square of a city where a palace, government buildings, and law courts were located |
| Romulus | Founder and First king of the city of Rome |
| Palentine hill | The first settlement at Rome was built |
| Latins | Rome was founded by the Trojans and the |
| Houses on a hillyop surrounded by a wall | Best description of an Etruscan city |
| Lydia in Asia Minor | Etruscans originally came from |
| Relative equality and freedom for women | Following characteristic of Etrucscan society |
| Soothsayers | People who predicted the future in the Etruscan society |
| Lucius Tarquinius | First Etruscan ruler of Rome |
| An etruscan funeral custom | roman custom of fighting between gladiators came from |
| Capitoline Hill | Where was the site of both the first temple in Rome and modern Rome;s municipal government |
| Dome shaped houses made of dirt | which of the following aspects of the Roman culture did NOT come from the Etruscans |
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