worksheet

Today we worked on a study guide for Chapter four. I didn't find all the answers but i got a lot of them.

IMPORTANT DATES:  In a sentence or two, describe what important or historical event took place on the following dates:

1600 – 1100 BC- Greeks fortified settlements along the Aegean development Mycenaean civilaztion

1150 – 750 BC- dark ages

776 BC-first Olympic games

750 – 700 BC-  homer composed iliad and odessey

621 BC - Dracos code of law was enforced

508 BC – 1st time in human history where anybody had a revolution against their government. Rose up against Isagoris 

490 - The Greeks go to war with the invading Persians under King Darius at the battle of Marathon.

480 BC- Xerses wants to get revenge, invades with huge army. but ended up losing. Battle of Thermopylae, Persians burn the Acropolis down, Athens defeat Persians

461 – 429 BC- golden age/age of Pericles  

447 – 438 BC- built Parthenon

431 – 404 BC- Peloponnese war (Spartans and Athenians) tried to get Spartans to surrender because they couldn't get supplies but they did and defeated Athens. end of golden age/age of pericles

399 BC - trial/execution of Socrates- (needed someone to blame for loss of war) charged with impiety, corrupting the youth

MEN, WOMEN, GODS AND GODDESSES YOU SHOULD KNOW:  In one or two sentences, describe what is significant about the following people (or immortals):

Homer- blind poet who wrote iliad and odessey and he went around singing ti people

Odysseus- the hero of Homer’s story “The Odyssey”- tyring to find his way home and kept having to face weird obstackles by posidean and others

Zeus- ruler of the sky and all of the gods

Athena- patron god of Athens, goddess of wisdom

Pisistratus- came to athens with "athena" he claimed to be a god, should have taken over Athens, gave common people rights to succeed 

Cleisthenes- created democratic republic, people put him in charge after Isagoris aristocrat

Darius (the Great) - king of Persia during the Persian wars- tried to conquer greece lost the battle of marathon

Xerxes- Darius’s son who sent two Greek expeditions to the mainland - tried to get revenge because of his father in the straits of salamis 
pedipotdies- runner in athens in charge of telling spartans, myth that he ran from marathon to athens to declare that he won the battle. Ran from athens to sparta 

Themistocles- ruled athens, defeats persians. not an aristocrat- was ostrisized

Pericles- aristocrat who was leader of Athens after victory over Persia- built parthenon delian league, Espeja- "high class prositute" but she was a refined, intellegent, beautiful women "high class escort"

Aristophanes- greek playwrite that specialized in comodies tradgedy-edopiss 

Socrates-well known Greek philosopher

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION:  Be able to locate the following on a map:

Athens                         Sparta                                      Peloponnesus                          Ionia

Ionian Sea                               Aegean Sea                             Persian Empire

GREEK POLITICAL STRUCTURES: Describe these political institutions:

Monarchy- a hereditary line of rulers             

Democracy- where all the males in the city state rule it together

Oligarchy- where four or five people rule the city state together 

Aristocracy- where the city state is ruled by a few elite males (somewhat lie an oligarchy)

PERICLES’ THREE GOALS FOR ATHENS: Name ‘em; describe ‘em.

Fix the government and to try and make all the aristocrats in charge
built parthenon

GREEK ART: Identify and describe examples in these fields:

Sculpture – result of Greeks growing wealthier and their society growing more complex, they built extravagant statues

Architecture- buildings such as the Parthenon          

Drama (tragedy and comedy) – they presented plays in their theater