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Question : What is the largest of the Greek isles?

Answer Crete (location of Mycenaean civilization)

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Question: What are 3 of Greece’s major exports?

Answer: wine, olives, lumber

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Question: State 3 city-states and where they are located in Greece

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Question: Why did the geography of Greece create separate city states?

Answer : No major “highway” to connect cities, divided by mountains

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Question: Why were Corinth and Megara strong trading city states?

Answer: There location on the isthmus---many travelers between the Attic and Peloponnesian peninsulas had to cross the isthmus

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Question: Who rebuilt Athens and founded democracy?

Answer: Pericles

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Question: What were the 3 branches in Athens’ government?

Answer: Council of 500—proposed the laws; Assembly—voted on the laws; Courts—upheld the laws

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Question: Who did not have the right to vote in the Assembly?

Answer: metics, women, males under 18, the poor (those who did not own land), slaves

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Question: What unifying organization was based on democracy and created after the Persian Wars?

Answer: Delian League

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Question: What are the major differences between US and Athens democracy?

Answer: foreigners can NEVER vote in Athens, directly vote on issues; women have a role in the U.S.; 100 jurors vs 12 jurors

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Question: Which of the following governments best describes Alexander’s regime: DEMOCRACY, OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, DICTATORSHIP

Answer: dictatorship

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Question: Describe how Alexander would treat the conquered peoples in the Persian Empire.

Answer: he would observe and respect their culture; invite them to join his entourage or help build their cities to look like those in Greece. He combined his culture with theirs to create HELLENISM

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Question: How did Alexander expand the empire politically?

Answer: united Greece as one; overthrow other kings and governments, created alliances and peace agreements

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Question: How did Alexander expand the empire socially?

Answer: He created a whole new culture that DIFFUSED the east and west together. He introduced Greece to many new ideas from the east such as Hinduism, Buddhism, silk, math, spices, kites, Hammurabi’s Code, compass, gunpowder, paper....

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Question: How did Alexander expand Greece economically?

Answer: Greece was not blessed with useful resources and was separated from the rest of the known world by the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas….his empire allowed merchants to trade safely and freely to other civilizations to gain new resources (wheat, grain, corn, rice, gold, silk, horses, elephants, rugs, spices….)Notes

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Question: State one politically impact of Greece.

Answer: democracy, VOICE of the people, courts, voting, jury

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Question: Who was the philosopher who taught the “Theory of Forms”

Answer: Plato

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Question: State one mathematical (social) impact of Greece.

Answer: Pythagoras, Archimedes Screw, Euclid’s NUMBER THEORY (geometry), Aristotle (observation, classification)

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Question: What were the main teachings of Socrates?

Answer: education is the key to personal growth; knowledge should come through questioning not memorization

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Question: What are 2 military impacts of Greece?

Answer: phalanx; fight with soldiers and treat conquered peoples with respect (Alex)

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Question: What was the purpose of the acropolis in Greek city-states?

Answer: it served as a center of town with agoras, government buildings, worship centers, theater, and a fort during times of attack

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Question: What is a tyrant and who supported them in ancient Greece?

Answer: Tyrant—someone who takes power illegally through force with the support of HOPLITES

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Question: Who fought in the Peloponnesian War and why was it fought?

Answer: Sparta and Athens.

Was fought because Sparta gained support from other polis’ because they felt Athens’ was abusing the Delian League

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Question: Why were the Greeks able to win the Persian War?

Answer: Athens and Sparta’s navy joined forces to win a sea battle

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