Reviewing for the test

       We spent Friday's class going over the outline that Mr. Schick had given us not too long ago to prepare for Monday's test.We went over important dates like:

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 - Draco's 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

We also talked abut importnant people and how they made an impact on Greek civilization

Homer- blind poet who wrote Iliad and Odyssey and he went around singing ti people

Odysseus- the hero of Homer’s story “The Odyssey”- trying to find his way home and kept having to face weird obstacles 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 prostitute" but she was a refined, intelligent, beautiful women "high class escort"

Aristophanes- Greek play write that specialized in comedies tragedy-Edopis 

Socrates-well known Greek philosopher