Chapter 5 Test-Greeks

-a fortified hilltop

-wrote Greek tragedies -"Father of Greek tragedies" -relationships between gods and humans -Oresteia-trilogy of Agamemnon

-wanted to follow father's plan to conquer Persia. -334BC: 35,000 soldiers marched across Hellespont to Anatolia -40,000 came to defend Persia -met at Granicus River -Alexander won!

-Ddarius III was defeated and tried to make a peace settlement that all lands west of Euphrates River would be Alexander's -Alexander said no and was going to conquer all of Persia

-Hellenistic scientist of Syracuse who studied at Alexandri -got PI right -explained the law of the lever

-astronomer of Samos -estimated that the Sun was at least 300 times bigger that the Earth...wrong! -Earth and other planets rotated around the Sun

Government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families

Wrote the first great comedies for the stage

-384-322BC -student of Plato -335BC he made the Lyceum school

-Macedonia rebeled aginst Greeks and the Persians supported them

-Macedonia was looked down upon by Greeks. 359BC Philip II took it over and made them an army to fight the Greeks

-a Greek-speaking poeple that migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaeans

-Indo-Europeans who migrated from Eurasion steppes to Greek mainland in 2000BC

-500BC Athenian leader -organized citizens into 10 groups based on location..not wealth -Increased power of assembly- citizens can submit laws for debate -Coouncil of 500 -Limited democracy

-Athens vs. Sparta -Sparta won!