World History Cycle 2 Review

the first Greek civilization

• Philistine

• Byzantium

• Mycenae

• Mesopotamia

the Odyssey, as a type of literature

• Poem

• Epic Poem

• Tragedy

• Musical

Greek city, town, or village and surroundings

• Polis

• Partheneon

• Country

• Zeno

important Greek colony city on the Bosporus strait

• Byzantium

• Athens

• Sparta

• Thebes

Athenian vote of banishment

• byzantium

• polis

• boule

• ostracism

height of Athenian power and brilliance

• Peloponnese War

• Persian War

• Age of Pericles

• Hellenistic Era

sacred shrine where priests revealed the future

• oracle

• partheneon

• fortune teller

• polis

founder of Stoicism

• Plato

• Plutarch

• Zeno

• Liby

age that began with Alexander the Great’s conquests

• Age of Percales

• Hellenistic Era

• The Golden Age of Islam

• The Waring states period

Why did so many different communities with independent ways of life develop in ancient Greece?

• The mountains in the territory isolated people from one another and prevented different communities from coming together.

• People came to Greece from many different lands and brought with them their own local customs.

• The Greeks were naturally very independent minded and tended to settle in communities with others who shared their beliefs.

• Greek communities were strongly influenced by the ideas of local philosophers, who each promoted different points of view.