Ch. 4 Greece and Iran
(1) From whose writing do we learn about the Persian empire?
(2) Why are we dependant on this group to tell us about the Persians?
(3) What are the main topographical features in Iran?
(4) How is the climate in the SouthEast of Iran and how does this affect the population there?
(5) What finally enabled the Iranians to participate in agriculture?
(6) Why do historians refer to these groups of people as "Iranians"?
(7) The Medes, a group of Iranians, did what to the Assyrians?
(8) What group of Iranians lived in the SouthEast next to the Persian Gulf?
(9) What are the two main differences between the Medians and the Persians?
(10) What important thing is Cyrus known for accomplishing?
(11) How was the family organized in Western Iran?
(12) What three classes was Persian society divided into?
(13) What territory came under Persia’s control while Cyprus was in power?
(14) Cambyses, his son, conquered what other Middle Eastern territory?
(15) How did Darius come to power?
(16) How was he accepted in Persian society?
(17) What did Darius do in relation to expansion for Persia?
(18) What did he accomplish in relation to improving Maritime Routes?
(19) His empire was _____ __________ the world had ever seen.
(20 As part of Darius’ new organizational structure, what did he create to govern his 20 different provinces?
(21) What happened to their power when they lived farther away from the center of power?
(22) What was the purpose of the Tribute, which was to be paid to the King, and what ended up happening to these (tributes)?
(23) Describe the role of royal Persian women.
(24) Who was included in the Persian King’s entourage?
(25) What was the King’s land used for?
(26) Why is Darius called the "Lawgiver"?
(27) What was Darius’ ceremonial capital called?
(28) What was the Persian’s religion? What were the central tenets/beliefs to this religion? What effects did this religion have on other religions, like Christianity?
(29) What are the resources like in Greece?
(30) What two main Seas border the Greek peninsula? Why were they important to the Greeks?
(31) What was the area like during the "Dark Ages"?
(32) The Greeks’ isolation ended with the arrival of __________ and this new time period was called _________. The best gift of these new people was __________.
(33) Why was the alphabet more advantageous than Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform? What did the Greeks use this alphabet system for?
(34) What caused the population to skyrocket in this time period?
(35) With the population increase came the Greek Polis, Acropolis, and Agora. What is the purpose of these?
(36) How was Hoplite warfare connected to Agriculture?
(37) what was the term Hellenes used for?
(38) Why was coinage important to the Greek Civilization?
(39) In the Archaic Greek world, what took over for the Kings? How did this group get its wealth?
(40) What enabled the individual tyrant to take power in Greek city-states? What caused their downfall and what two forms of government superseded the tyrant?
(41) What was the Greek religion like and what was the central ritual of this religion?
(42) What were the Oracles used for?
(43) The growing concept of Individualism led to an emphasis on __________. This term means: _____________________.
(44) What change did the Pre-Socratic philosophers make?
(45) What did Logographers do?
(46) What was the Spartan society focused on?
(47) In Athena, citizens were classified into four classes based on what?
(48) What did the Democratic Assembly allow for?
(49) What was the Athenian government like when Pericles was in power?
(50) What was the Ionian Revolt?
(51) Who did Darius want to punish? Why?
(52) Why is the Battle of Marathon well known?
(53) Who is Xerxes? What did he do?
(54) What was the Hellenic League?
(55) What happened at Thermopylae?
(56) What did Athens try to do?
(57) What was the Delian League?
(58) What time period is the "classical" period in Greek history?
(59) What did Athens do during this time period?
(60) What did the Athenians do with their extra money?
(61) What would the Athenians do to those that tried to leave the League?
(62) What were the advantages of the tireme?
(63) What class were the hoplites? Why?
(64) What class were the rowers?
(65) How was Athens different from previous Greek Wars?
(66) What did Athens do with the money they collected from subject states?
(67) What cultural achievements were a result of the wealth of Athens?
(68) Who were the Sophists?
(69) What is rhetoric?
(70) What were Socrates’ two arguments?
(71) How did Socrates die?
(72) Who is Plato?
(73) What did Plato found?
(74) What was the Socratic Method?
(75) Why did Plato refuse to write some things down?
(76) Who tutored Alexander the Great?
(77) What school did he found? Where?
(78) How was he different from Plato?
(79) Who actually participated on Athenian democracy? Percentage?
(80) For what were slaves used?
(81) How did Greeks rationalize slavery despite the social relationship between them?
(82) What were women’s positions like in each city-state?
(83) What was marriage like in Athens?
(84) What was the primary function of marriage?
(85) Why did men and women have limited contact?
(86) How did Greek men justify the confinement of women?
(87) What dramatic evidence is there of female lives in Ancient Greece?
(88) What were the two sides of the Peloponnesian War?
(89) How long was the Peloponnesian War?
(90) What were the effects of the war?
(91) How were the Spartans able to defeat the Athenian navy?
(92) What were the terms of the King’s Peace of 387 BCE?
(93) Who was making Macedonia a powerful state?
(94) How did he do it?
(95) What new technologies were created by the Macedonians?
(96) What was the Confederacy of Corinth?
(97) How did Phillip II die?
(98) What was Alexander’s goal?
(99) What type of administration did Alexander have in his territories?
(100) What type of cities did he establish? Why?
(2) Why are we dependant on this group to tell us about the Persians?
(3) What are the main topographical features in Iran?
(4) How is the climate in the SouthEast of Iran and how does this affect the population there?
(5) What finally enabled the Iranians to participate in agriculture?
(6) Why do historians refer to these groups of people as "Iranians"?
(7) The Medes, a group of Iranians, did what to the Assyrians?
(8) What group of Iranians lived in the SouthEast next to the Persian Gulf?
(9) What are the two main differences between the Medians and the Persians?
(10) What important thing is Cyrus known for accomplishing?
(11) How was the family organized in Western Iran?
(12) What three classes was Persian society divided into?
(13) What territory came under Persia’s control while Cyprus was in power?
(14) Cambyses, his son, conquered what other Middle Eastern territory?
(15) How did Darius come to power?
(16) How was he accepted in Persian society?
(17) What did Darius do in relation to expansion for Persia?
(18) What did he accomplish in relation to improving Maritime Routes?
(19) His empire was _____ __________ the world had ever seen.
(20 As part of Darius’ new organizational structure, what did he create to govern his 20 different provinces?
(21) What happened to their power when they lived farther away from the center of power?
(22) What was the purpose of the Tribute, which was to be paid to the King, and what ended up happening to these (tributes)?
(23) Describe the role of royal Persian women.
(24) Who was included in the Persian King’s entourage?
(25) What was the King’s land used for?
(26) Why is Darius called the "Lawgiver"?
(27) What was Darius’ ceremonial capital called?
(28) What was the Persian’s religion? What were the central tenets/beliefs to this religion? What effects did this religion have on other religions, like Christianity?
(29) What are the resources like in Greece?
(30) What two main Seas border the Greek peninsula? Why were they important to the Greeks?
(31) What was the area like during the "Dark Ages"?
(32) The Greeks’ isolation ended with the arrival of __________ and this new time period was called _________. The best gift of these new people was __________.
(33) Why was the alphabet more advantageous than Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform? What did the Greeks use this alphabet system for?
(34) What caused the population to skyrocket in this time period?
(35) With the population increase came the Greek Polis, Acropolis, and Agora. What is the purpose of these?
(36) How was Hoplite warfare connected to Agriculture?
(37) what was the term Hellenes used for?
(38) Why was coinage important to the Greek Civilization?
(39) In the Archaic Greek world, what took over for the Kings? How did this group get its wealth?
(40) What enabled the individual tyrant to take power in Greek city-states? What caused their downfall and what two forms of government superseded the tyrant?
(41) What was the Greek religion like and what was the central ritual of this religion?
(42) What were the Oracles used for?
(43) The growing concept of Individualism led to an emphasis on __________. This term means: _____________________.
(44) What change did the Pre-Socratic philosophers make?
(45) What did Logographers do?
(46) What was the Spartan society focused on?
(47) In Athena, citizens were classified into four classes based on what?
(48) What did the Democratic Assembly allow for?
(49) What was the Athenian government like when Pericles was in power?
(50) What was the Ionian Revolt?
(51) Who did Darius want to punish? Why?
(52) Why is the Battle of Marathon well known?
(53) Who is Xerxes? What did he do?
(54) What was the Hellenic League?
(55) What happened at Thermopylae?
(56) What did Athens try to do?
(57) What was the Delian League?
(58) What time period is the "classical" period in Greek history?
(59) What did Athens do during this time period?
(60) What did the Athenians do with their extra money?
(61) What would the Athenians do to those that tried to leave the League?
(62) What were the advantages of the tireme?
(63) What class were the hoplites? Why?
(64) What class were the rowers?
(65) How was Athens different from previous Greek Wars?
(66) What did Athens do with the money they collected from subject states?
(67) What cultural achievements were a result of the wealth of Athens?
(68) Who were the Sophists?
(69) What is rhetoric?
(70) What were Socrates’ two arguments?
(71) How did Socrates die?
(72) Who is Plato?
(73) What did Plato found?
(74) What was the Socratic Method?
(75) Why did Plato refuse to write some things down?
(76) Who tutored Alexander the Great?
(77) What school did he found? Where?
(78) How was he different from Plato?
(79) Who actually participated on Athenian democracy? Percentage?
(80) For what were slaves used?
(81) How did Greeks rationalize slavery despite the social relationship between them?
(82) What were women’s positions like in each city-state?
(83) What was marriage like in Athens?
(84) What was the primary function of marriage?
(85) Why did men and women have limited contact?
(86) How did Greek men justify the confinement of women?
(87) What dramatic evidence is there of female lives in Ancient Greece?
(88) What were the two sides of the Peloponnesian War?
(89) How long was the Peloponnesian War?
(90) What were the effects of the war?
(91) How were the Spartans able to defeat the Athenian navy?
(92) What were the terms of the King’s Peace of 387 BCE?
(93) Who was making Macedonia a powerful state?
(94) How did he do it?
(95) What new technologies were created by the Macedonians?
(96) What was the Confederacy of Corinth?
(97) How did Phillip II die?
(98) What was Alexander’s goal?
(99) What type of administration did Alexander have in his territories?
(100) What type of cities did he establish? Why?
