World History - Chapter 6 Flash Cards

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Title: World History - Chapter 6
Description: Flashcards for World History chapter 6 (Greece's Golden and Hellenistic Ages)
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Created: 2007-10-06
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • What is the Golden Age of Greece?
    • A new era of cultural progress in Athens
    • ____________ was a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
    • the Parthenon
    • Who was Myron?
    • one of history's greatest sculptors of the Golden Age & sculpted "the Discus Thrower"
    • Who was Phidias?
    • one of history's greates sculptors of the Golden Age & he sculpted a famous statue of Zeus
    • The sculpter who made large formal works appropriated for the gods.
    • Praxiteles
    • The study of basic questions of reality & human existence is?
    • Philosophy
    • What was the aristocracy?
    • Government ruled by an upper class.
    • Plays containing action or dialouge & involving conflict & emotion are?
    • Dramas
    • What are tragedies?
    • Main characters stuggled against fate or events
    • He was a great thinker. He taught that education was the key to personal growth.
    • Socrates
    • Who was a wealthy young aristocrat & the greatest of Socrates's students? He also formed the Academy.
    • Plato
    • One of Plato's students; believed every field of knowledge had to be studied logically. Who was he?
    • Aristotle
    • Who was a philosopher who believed everything could be explained in terms of mathematics?
    • Pythagoras
    • Who lived between 460 - 377 BC and was the founder of medical science?
    • Hippocrates
    • Who was the first historian of the Western world?
    • Herodotus
    • Who defended many traditional Greek values and wrote a famous tradgic play "Oedipus Rex"?
    • Sophocles
    • Who was the 3rd greatest playwright of the Golden Age?
    • Euripides
    • Who was known as the finest writer of Greek comedies and who was known for their sharp wit?
    • Aristophanes
    • What is a phalanx?
    • It contained rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder
    • Who were orators?
    • Public Speakers
    • Who was the King of Macedon of Greece who also had a son named Alexander the Great?
    • Phillip II of Macedon
    • Who was Demosthenes?
    • A speaker who led Athenian opposition to Phillip
    • Who was Alexander the Great?
    • Phillip 2 of Macedon's son. His aim was to bring all the known world into a single empire
    • What was the combined ideas & values drawn from the Mediterranean & Asia?
    • Hellenistic culture
    • Who established the Stotic philosophy in Athens in the late 300s BC?
    • Zeno
    • Who was the founder of Epicurean philosophy and who taught that the aim of life was to seek pleasure and avoid pain?
    • Epicurus
    • Who was the greatest scientist of the Hellenistic period who also found the value of (pi)?
    • Archimedes
    • Who correctly believed that the earth and other planets move around the sun, but failed to convince others?
    • Aristarchus
    • Who calculated the distance around the earth with amazing accuracy?
    • Eratosthenes
    • What was Hellas?
    • Ancient name for Greece
    • _________________ was the characteristic of the Ancient Greeks or their language, culture, and thought?
    • Hellenic