HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I

HISTORY 101
Topic Seven:  The Greek Experiment

 

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Identifications:
Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.
Dark Age, Homer, Archaic Greece, Panhellenism, Hoplite, polis, tyrant, Xerses, Solon, Cleisthenes, Helots, Persian Wars, Delian League, Pericles, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Socrates, The Ionian Revolt, The Battle of Marathon,  Aeschylus, Parthenon, Sappo, Peisistratos,  Delphi, Battle of Salamas, Battle of Thermopylae, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Herodotus,

Essay

1.   Discuss the reasons that neither Athens nor Sparta were able to create a unified Greece.
2.  Was Athens a democracy?   What steps led to the establishing the Athenian democracy?  Were there limitations to Athenian democracy?
3.  What was the role of Pericles in Athenian politics?  

Reading Assignment:  Coffin and Stacey, Chapter 3

SUGGESTED PROJECT
The Greek Collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York; Walter's Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

 

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