How did it all start?
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What is a period in terms of history?
What are the three main periods we will/have studied in this class?
What is the name of the Region where the early Western Civilization started?
What was the name of the first civilization in the Aegean Sea Region
How did the Minoan Civilization make money?
How were women in the Minoan society different from women in other close by societies
The Minoan’s strong ships lead to the fact that they did not have what around their cities?
The political center of Minoan society was located where?
Mycenaean political center was located where?
Mycenaean society different from Minoan society in what ways?
Who most likely conquered the Mycenaean civilization?
How were these invaders able to conquer the Mycenaean civilizations
How were the conquerors of Mycenaean civilization different from the previous two groups?
After the fall of the Mycenaean society Greece entered what period
What happened during this time?
Which Greeks reintroduced culture to mainland Greece?
Why was the Phoenician alphabet important
What is a bard?
The Typical Polis
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Describe a typical polis
What is a polis?
What is an acropolis?
What is an agora?
What could citizens of the typical polis do?
What people other than citizens lived in the typical polls
What lead to changes in Greek political life?
What is a tyranny (in ancient Greece)?
List and explain the three types of government in ancient Greek Polis.
Athens vs Sparta
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What were the three classes of people in Sparta
What the main theory for which Sparta was a militaristic society?
What did mothers want in Sparta?
Were women allowed to be slaves in Sparta?
What was the name of the training Spartan boys went through
What were girls trained to do in Sparta?
Why were women treated differently in Sparta?
What could women do in Sparta but not in most other city states
How many kings did Sparta have?
How did Athens get its name?
Who could be members of the assembly in Athens
What was most important about Draco’s laws?
Why was this important?
What was important about Peisistratus?
Which Athenian leader is considered the father of Democracy by many historians
How did Athenians choose their officials?
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45. Why were there so many judges in Athenian court?
46. Why were Athenian men and boys always so well educated?
Greek Gods
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Who was the leader of the Greek Gods
What was he the God of
Who were his brothers?
What were they the Gods of?
How were the gods similar to humans?
How were they different?
Persian Wars
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Between 500 and 400 B.C.E the Greeks fought many wars who were the wars between
Why did Persia attack mainland Greece originally?
Who won the battle of Marathon?
Who won the battle of Thermopylae (Hot Gates)?
Why is this battle important?
Who was the most powerful city state after the Persian wars?
Peloponnesian Wars
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What was the war of Greek vs Greek that took place after the Persian Wars called?
Who were the leaders of the two warring factions (groups)
With what nation did Sparta ally themselves?
Who won these wars?
What were the results of these Wars
Macedonia
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How did Macedonia kings feel about Greece?
What did King Philip II do to prevent city states from working together?
Was it difficult or easy for Phillip to conquer most of Greece? Why?
How did King Philip the II Die?
What is the name of the next leader of Macedonia?
What is one reason he was sometimes called the “Perfect General”
Rome
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Name three important geographical points around the origin of Rome
Name two groups that lived around the Latium (ancient Roman) people
What did the Latium people learn from these Groups
What is the name of the story of the origin of Rome most Romans believed to be trued?
What are the three stages of Ancient Rome
Name some of the Values of Rome the Kingdom.