Chapter 3 - Greece And Rome Flashcards

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The Minoan civilization was located on what island

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Crete

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What was the dominant city on the Attica peninsula

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Athens

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Where is Magna Graecia

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Southern Italy, Sicily

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What did the Greeks called their heavily colonized area of Asia minor

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Ionia

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How did colonization influence a sense of cultural identity among the Greeks

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Fostered a Panhellenic spirit

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What event led Sparta becoming a military state

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Rebellion of helots

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What were hoplites.

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Greek warriors

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In the Athenian Empire what was required of dependent states

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To pay tribute

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What were the warships of ancient Greece

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Trireme

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What was the importance of Acropolis in Athens

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Served as a religious and Civic Center

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What were Thucydides views on human nature

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Human nature’s unchanging in an educated historian could predict the future

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The earliest Aegean civilization was located on

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Crete

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12
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Homers epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey refer primarily to what period Greek history

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Archaic

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13
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Polis means

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City

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14
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According to legend the Greeks finally destroyed the city of Troy using

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A wooden horse

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15
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Who founded colonies before and during the Greek colonial period

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Phoenicians

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Aristotle valued the Polis very highly because he thought only the polis provided what

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Law and Justice

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17
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Sparta was located on what Peninsula

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Peloponnesus

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18
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What is a Hoplite Phalany

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A disciplined closed fighting formation

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19
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Sparta was a ____ state

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Military

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In Spartan government, the _______ represented the democratic element.

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Assembly

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21
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The Athenian aristocrat who seized power and created a tyranny was

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Pisistratus

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22
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The myth of Persian invincibility was broken at

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Marathon

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23
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Spartans and Athens fight each other in the

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Peloponnesian War

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24
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The Delian League was created under

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Athens leadership

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The primary cause of the Peloponesian war was

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Athens growing domination over the other city states.

26
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Greek historian who wrote History of the Persian Wars

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Herodotus

27
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Athenian who wrote the history of the Peloponesian war

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Thucydides

28
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Developed a teaching system which employed students reasoning to help them learn

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Socrates

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In their effort to uncover the will of the gods, the ancient Greeks made us of

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Oracles

30
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One of the Hellenistic kingdoms that succeeded Alexander was that of the

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Ptolemies in Egypt

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Alexander was forced to end his conquest in India because of

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Mutiny

32
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Rome was located on the plain of

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Latium

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The people who governed Rome at the outset of its history were

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Etruscans

34
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The government of Rome was originally a monarchy but later became a

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Republic

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The class of noble landowners who dominated Roman society and politics were

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Patricians

36
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During the early republic, the Roman _______ had control over the finances and foreign policy

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Senate

37
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The chief executive officers of the Roman Republic were

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Consuls

38
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The defenders of the plebeians were known as

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Tribunes

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Rome’s treatment of conquered Italian cities promoted loyalty by granting Roman

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Citizenship

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The first Punic was was waged between ________ and Rome over control of the island of _____.

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Carthage. Sicily.

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In early Roman government the ______ ___ included common citizens.

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Curiale Assemby

42
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The Roman general who began a new system of military recruitment was

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Marius

43
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Large plantations used for growing cash crops and worked by slaves were

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Latifundia

44
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Tiberius Gracchus sought to solve the problems facing the Roman republic through

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Land reform

45
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The Roman general who returned from Spain as a military hero was

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Pompey

46
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The first Triumvirate was composed of

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Caesar, Pompy, and Crassus

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After defeating the assassins of Caeser, Octavians main rival for power was

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Marc Anthoney

48
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Established the Praetorian Guard to guard him and his successors

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Octavian

49
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The most important basis of Augustus power was the

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Army

50
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The poet Ovid wrote love elegies and was banished by

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Augustus

51
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Were deemed vital by the government as it diverted the mass of the population from potentially political or riotous activities

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Gladiatorial Games

52
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The key figure in the spread of Christianity outside of the Jewish community was

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Paul of Tarsus

53
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The first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity was

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Constantine

54
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What power did the imperium give to Roman Kings

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The right to issues commands and to enforce them.

55
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What were the duties of the censor

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To conduct a census and create citizen rolls.

56
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What was the land north of the Daube River

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Germania

57
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Rich men who could qualify to serve in the Roman cavalry

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Equestrians

58
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The Greeks decisively defeated the Persians at

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Salamis

59
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The leading cultural center of the Hellenistic world

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Alexandria