Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Section review 7 + Identifiy

1.Black and Aegean Sea; Ionian Sea; Gulf of Corinth


2.Minoans,Mycenaeans, Dorians


3.Minoans;King Minos of knossos


4.Mycenaeans


5.Dorians; Helenians


6.Homer; The travels of odysseus and the war between athens an troy


7.Athena-Wisdom Aries-War Apollo- Sun; They looked like people having human characteristics


8.city states; acropolis,agora,gymnasium, and amphitheatre


9.Athens,Sparta,Eretria


10.490-479 BC


11. Thermoplylae- Darius's son Xerexes the first wanted Greece and they lost because of a traitor at Salimis the Persians arrive in athens to find an empty city athens defeated the persians in the first major navel battle

12. It placed a limit on westward expansion of the Persian Empire.

Identifiy-

Hellespont-City in troy.
Attica- Region of greece
Peloponnesus- Region of greece
Trojan war- 1200bc mycenans defeated the city of troy, on the coast of asia minor after a 10 year seige
Odysseus- Main characer of Homer's Odyssey
Mt. Olympus- Where the gods lived.
Heros-human chracters who played imprtant roles in homers poems.
Achilles- Invincible greek warrior.
Barbarian- Those who did not speak greek.
Olypic Ganes- Held every fourth year at Olympia in honor of Zeus.
Olypiad- The time between olympic games.
Darius 1- King of persia
Xerxes 1- Darius son.
Leonidas- Spartan leader.
Themistocle- Briallant athenian who tricked xerxes into fighting a naval battle.
Plataea- A battle fought in 479 B.C.

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