Identifcation: Identify the terms and people listed in one short phrase. After reading these chapters, students should understand  the importance of these individuals and terms, and with which country or countries they are associated. Type your responses.

Terms:

Minoan:

Mycenaean:

linear A:

linear B:

polis:

phalanx:

Battle of Marathon:

Battle of Salamis:

helots:

Greek tyrant:

Hellenistic:

Iliad:

acropolis:

Dorian:

Peloponnesian Wars:

Macedonia:

Delian League:

Trojan War:
 
 

People:

Pericles:

Xerxes:

Draco:

Solon:

Hippocrates:

Homer:

Socrates:

Peisistratus:

Herodotus:

Darius III:

Alexander:

Ptolemy I:

Philip of Macedonia:

Aristotle:

Archimedes:

Cimon:

Aristophanes:

Plato:
 
 

Discussion/ Essay Topics:Choose ONE of the following and type (double-spaced) a 250 word response, using specific information from the textbook.

1. Compare the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. What evidence is there of contact between these two civilizations? Were these two civilizations influenced by other civilizations in the area? What is the evidence of this influence?

2. How are Homer's poems a valuable source of historical information? What are the values of Homeric times? What do they tell us about his civilization?

3. What is the importance of the polis in Greek history?

4. How does Athenian democracy compare to our concepts of democracy today?

5. Did Alexander the Great create a new civilization by combining Egyptian, Persian and Greek people and ideas or did he destroy the "European" Greek civilization?