Classical Greece Test Review
Jan 12, 2016
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