Classical Greece Test Review. 1. ◊Europe ◊Peninsula ◊Surrounded by Aegean, Ionian and Med. ◊Many mountains.

Classical Greece Test Review

1. ◊Europe ◊Peninsula ◊Surrounded by Aegean,

Ionian and Med.

◊Many mountains

2. ◊mountains isolated them politically

◊mountains limited their food supply therefore limiting their population

2. ◊Seas were used for highways for TRANSPORTATION and TRADE

◊Trade was necessary because Greece lacks many natural resources

3. Impact of Dorians:

◊Period of decline

◊No written

records

4. ◊Famous blind storyteller ◊Told The Illiad and The

Odyssey

5. Polis is a Greek city-state◊Sparta and Athens

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

7.

Polis Values

Athens

IndividualityArt

FreedomBeauty

7.

Polis Government

Athens

DirectDemocracy

7.

Polis Values

Sparta

MilitaryStrength

Duty Discipline

7.

Polis Government

Sparta Oligarchy

7.

Polis Similarities

Athensand

Sparta

PhalanxWomen couldn’t vote

Spoke GreekPolytheisticHad slavery

Delian LeagueWon Persian War

8. Sparta won the Peloponnesian War◊most of the war was

fought on land and Sparta

had a stronger army

9. Pericles made Athens into a direct democracy and paid public officials, therefore the poor could take part in gov’t and look out for their rights

10. Golden Age is a time of peace and prosperity ◊Led to cultural

developments – art, literature, drama, philosophy, gov’t, architecture and science

11. Philosophy:Socrates Plato Aristotle

◊Father of Philosophy

◊Asked Greeks to question

everything to find truth

◊Student of Socrates

◊Started The Academy

◊Wrote The Republic

◊ Student of Plato

◊ Started The Lyceum

◊Scientific Method

◊Drama:1. Tragedy—serious drama

about common themes

2. Comedy—contained slapstick humor and

situations

◊Art:◊Greek Sculpture: figures

were graceful, strong and serene

◊Classical art—valued order, balance and proportion = REALISTIC!

B. Architecture: columns

Doric Ionic Corinthian

◊Science: Aristotle

◊Government:◊Athens had a direct

democracy - ruled directly and not through representatives.

12. King Philip II of Macedonia conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War

13. Alexander the Great built an empire

13. Alexander the Great created Hellenistic Culture

15. Alexandria was at the crossroads of three continents:

EuropeAsiaAfrica

16.Hellenistic Culture:

◊Math – Euclid (geometry) and Archimedes (pi)

◊Physics – lever and pulley

16.Hellenistic Culture:

◊Philosophy:-Stoicism-deny

pleasure-Epicureans-indulge

in pleasure

1. Astronomy—Alexandria contained a small observatory in which astronomers could study

the planets and stars