Greece Review Game

Greece Review Game
Divide into teams of 3.Save this document onto your network drive. Click file then save as then select my documents and then your history folder.Use separate score sheet as instructed.Players sit at adjacent computers.Players press Page Down key simultaneously to progress through slides.

1. Polis
Small independent city statePresumed descendants from same founderHereditaryGroups then further divided into clansThey all had a common cultural agreement so they were able to flourish moreGo up against tyrants because bond was so strongDeep seeded values

2. Solon

3. Pisistratus

4. Clisthenes

5. Helots

6. Delian League

7. Peloponnesian League

8. Hoplite

9. Lysander

10 Periclese

11. Trojan Wars
See People involved

Menelaus
Fought in Trojan warBrother of AgamemnonSon of AtreusHusband of HelenKing of SPARTA

13. Helen
Wife of MenelausQueen of SpartaReason for Trojan War ( see notes)Abducted by TrojansChanged allegiances

Paris(person in story, not city in France)
Troy's side Hector brother Falls in love with Helen takes her to troyOther side of Ag and Ach

15. Agamemnon
Warrior in Trojan WarStory with traded concubines ( see concubine)Symbolizes warRaging mad King of Mycenaean ( House of Atreus)Leader of Trojan War

16. Odysseus( the clever)
King of IthicaTrojan warWent into Achilles tent and told him they need youWise, calm what do I really wantSwallow prideOpposite of Achilles

17. Achilles
Trojan war Story with Ag, Od about traded concubines Force of nature, creates mood in a wayNobleLike a god? As a boy dipped in pool by heal

18 Hector
Wife AndromacheHappy family, sonConsidered duty to fight for Troy, sad to leave family

19. Andromache
Represents sorrowful wife Ideal of wife and mother who must suffer, suffer with dignity (Solon*) poem WDS p 107

20. How did the Minoans and the Mycenaeans differ?

MinoansMyceneansPolitical:

Single king with bureaucracyTrade and treatyDetailed records keptPower Strong kingsSmall independent multiple monarchies Unquestionable power

Art:Pottery, beauty in lifeEgypt, Asia Minor, SyriaDay to liveWar murals boar hunting

Military: no walled defense Heavily fortifiedBuilt on hills as defense mechanism Defensive wallsWealthy from raids

21. Who won the Great Pelloponesian war and why?
SpartaHelp from Persia

22. How did the mountains of Greece influence the way city states developed?
Geography influenced polisNaturally divided up spaceTerritory The way the land was determined where a polis wasAvailability of farmland and natural resources

23. As evidenced in the Illiad and the Odyssey, what did Homer value?
Showed both sidesNot judgmental of either side ( Trojan vs. Greeks)BraverySorrow PassionEmotionsWhat it takes to be a human, experiencing life, superWar because it brings out face of StruggleBrutality and Humanity of life( hector and Andromache)Didnt moralize bile does)

24. See Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea pages 27-34. Compare how Homer sees ancient war to how you see modern war.
Homer: Glorious beautiful powerful scenes written by homer about warfarenot to disgust may be hell, but glorious helltop of human achievement tragedy of death with great lasting deedAdmire Menelaus, wanting blood Ipointlessno endkilling that doesnt amount to any real goalcan be very ineffective not height of human achievement

25. Explain why Alexander chose to attack types of cities in the order he did.
conquered coastline- stop trade coming from across Ageian Sea Population centers to get troops( ei. India) to support and make alliances controlled supply line covered back, when down coast then IN King Darius fleeted as Alexander came, Alexander followedFinally Darius actually offered his empire west of Euphrates, denied wanted more used a version of hoplite

Essay 1: Greece is called the birthplace of democracy. Explain how democracy developed, and how it on occasion went awry.
AeropagusSolonPisistratus (see chapter 3 review notes for answers!)HippiasClithenese The journey through each ruler brought more and more characteristics to the democracy until it was finished Obstacle Isagoras, wanted to restore aristocracy competitor clithenese who turned to people for support

Essay 2. Athens and Sparta were so close, yet so far. Compare and contrast their political, economic and social characteristics.

SpartaAthensP monarchy, oligarchy, democracy 2 kings council of elders- 28 over 60 assembly- citizens over 30 Ephors- 5 annually elected; foreign policy The shift to democracyS Must maintain Helots so there was an emphasis on military training Males: 0 life or death, 7 military school, 20 army, 20 home but still involved, 60 retire

More inclusive because needed skilled workers for economic tradeSolon and Pisistratus cultivated idea of participation others not easily able to differ themselves fromE geography held back growth Much trade Dependant on helots to produce A live economy with required military

Geography constrained growthMORE tradeCraftsmenCrops to trade for high valued needs and profit As result extend citizenship and be more inclusive