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Ancient Greece: Test 1 Review

Ancient Greece: Test 1 Review. People. He was instrumental in founding modern scientific classification systems; wrote Ethics ; believed a mixed government should be combined in a limited democracy Aristotle.

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Ancient Greece: Test 1 Review

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  1. Ancient Greece: Test 1 Review People

  2. He was instrumental in founding modern scientific classification systems; wrote Ethics; believed a mixed government should be combined in a limited democracy Aristotle

  3. Finest writer of comedies; poked fun at Socrates; used works to provoke thought about causes of war Aristophanes

  4. Conquered Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; established large Hellenistic empire Alexander the Great

  5. Correctly believed in the heliocentric theory Aristarchus

  6. Probably the greatest scientist of the Hellenistic period. He used mathematics extensively and calculated the value of pi Archimedes

  7. Seized power in Athens and turned it into a democracy Cleisthenes

  8. One of Athens’ finest orators; led Athenian opposition to Philip Demosthenes

  9. Probably created Athens’ 1st written law code; laws were harsh Draco

  10. He taught that the aim of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain, but he also taught that people should limit their desires Epicurus

  11. Calculated the distance around the earth with amazing accuracy Eratosthenes

  12. Wrote Elements, which is the basis for today’s geometry Euclid

  13. Writer of tragedies; questioned old beliefs and ideas; wrote about the Trojan War Euripides

  14. He is considered the father of history Herodotus

  15. Considered to be the founder of medical science; taught that disease comes from natural causes, not as punishment from god Hippocrates

  16. Leader during Athens’ Golden Age; died during Peloponnesian War Pericles

  17. Became king of Macedon in 359 BC and eventually conquered most of Greece. Philip II

  18. Founded “Academy” for teaching philosophy; wrote dialogues that dealt with government, religion, etc. Most important idea: Theory of Forms Plato

  19. He was a mathematician who believed that everything could be explained mathematically Pythagoras

  20. Taught that education was the key to personal growth; used continual questioning of assumptions to teach Socrates

  21. Erased debts of the poor and outlawed slavery for debt Solon

  22. Writer of tragedies; defended Greek values; wrote Oedipus Rex Sophocles

  23. Defeated the Persians at Salamis Strait Themistocles

  24. Established the Stoic philosophy in Athens: Divine reason directs the world; people should accept fate without complaint; all have some divine “spark” and can only find happiness by following it Zeno

  25. Ancient Greece: Test 2 Review Vocabulary/Terms

  26. A hill, usually where a city-state fort was built acropolis

  27. A market place in a city-state agora

  28. A government ruled by an upper class Aristocracy

  29. A government in which citizens take part Democracy

  30. All citizens participate in making political decisions and laws Direct Democracy

  31. Plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion . . .written in poetic form dramas

  32. This deals with moral duty and what is good and evil ethics

  33. Conquered people of the Peloponnesus who basically worked for the Spartans as slaves helots

  34. A non-aristocratic soldier—fought as heavy infantry with long spears and good, heavy armor hoplite

  35. Places where the gods spoke to the Greeks through priests and priestesses oracles

  36. Public speakers orators

  37. A male slave who taught boys manners. They went everywhere with the boys starting at about 7 years-old pedagogue

  38. The idea that people can and should rule themselves Popular government

  39. Rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes, or spears phalanx

  40. The study of basic questions of reality and human existence . . . a way to a better understanding of self and world philosophy

  41. Greek for city-state polis

  42. Citizens elect representatives to make laws for them Representative democracy

  43. The study of public speaking and debating rhetoric

  44. They opened schools for older boys where they studied subjects like government, math, ethics, etc. sophists

  45. Plays where the protagonist struggles against fate or events; the protagonist is usually defeated by outside events Tragedies

  46. One who illegally took power, but had the people’s support; came to mean one who used absolute power brutally tyrants

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