Chapter 3 - The Civilization of the Greeks

Greece

________ saw a revival of some trade and some economic activity besides agriculture.

Topography

________ helped determine the major territories into which Greece was ultimately divided.

Classical Greece

________ is the name given to the period of Greek history from around 500 B.

Sophocles

________- The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright ________, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens.

Cleon

In the confrontation between ________ and Antigone, Sophocles bears witness to the complexity of human existence.

Poleis

________ varied greatly in size, from a few square miles to a few hundred square miles.

Aeolian Greeks

The ________, located in northern and central Greece, colonized the large island of Lesbos and the adjacent territory on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor.

Minoan Cretans

________ also made contact with and exerted influence on the Greek- speaking inhabitants of the Greek mainland.

southwestern Greece

The Dorians established themselves in ________, especially in the Peloponnesus, as well as on some of the southern Aegean islands, including Crete and Rhodes.

Homeric Greece

Homer and ________ The Iliad and the Odyssey, the first great epic poems of early Greece, were based on stories that had been passed on from generation to generation.

hoplite force

The ________, which apparently developed first in the Peloponnesus, had political as well as military repercussions.

Greece

________ had a long seacoast, dotted by bays and inlets that provided numerous harbors.

Mycenae

Agamemnon, the king of ________, returns a hero after the defeat of Troy.

Greek Communities

No doubt the small size of these independent ________ fostered participation in political affairs and unique cultural expressions, but the rivalry among these ________ also led to the bitter warfare that ultimately devastated Greek society.

Mycenaean Civilization

After the collapse of the ________, Greece entered a difficult period in which population declined and food production dropped.

Aegean Sea

During the Dark Age, large numbers of Greeks left the mainland and migrated across the ________ to various islands and especially to the southwestern shore of Asia Minor, a strip of territory that came to be called Ionia.

The Dorians

________ established themselves in southwestern Greece, especially in the Peloponnesus, as well as on some of the southern Aegean islands, including Crete and Rhodes.

The Greek Polis

________ developed slowly during the Dark Age, but by the eighth century had emerged a unique and fundamental institution in Greek society.

The phalanx

________ was easily routed, however, if it broke its order. The safety of the phalanx thus depended on the solidarity and discipline of its members.

Sparta

To maintain its new leadership in Greek affairs, ________ encouraged a Panhellenic crusade against the Persians as a common enemy.

Herodotus

The central theme of ________ work is the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians, which he viewed as a struggle between Greek freedom and Persian despotism.

Sophocles

________ - The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright ________, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens.