Remember to review visuals

Pomeroy et al. Ancient Greece, chapter three. Archaic Greece.

People, places, terms:

polis

agora

synoecism

hoi agathoi vs hoi kakoi

hoi polloi

tyranny vs. oligarchy vs. democracy

Hesiod

hoplites and hoplite warfare/phalanx

thetes

kouros & kore (and see visuals)

Black Figure vs Red Figure

proxeny

Panhellenism

Archaic smile

Lyric poetry

symposium

gymnasium

Topics & Events:

750-700 – Creation of first large city-states as local towns joined together, a process called synoecism; what effect this has on development of political systems

750 -550 – Colonization: Greek migration into South Italy and the Black Sea and elsewhere; reasons for the migration; influence on later alliances

725 – 650 – Hoplite soldiers and phalanx formation become the mainstay of Greek warfare; what effect this has on society and politics

776 - Olympic Games founded; panhellenic shrines and games established throughout Greece in this period; importance of Delphi

State formation - rise of the great City States: (1) Changes in agriculture, hence population; (2) changes in warfare; (3) colonization; (4) panhellenism and religious bond

Pomeroy et al. Ancient Greece, chapter four. Sparta.

People, places, terms:

Lacedaemonia

helots

perioikoi

syssition (plural syssitia)

Messenia

Lycurgus

Topics & Events:

Educational system at Sparta (agoge)

Treatment of women at Sparta vs treatment of women in Athens

The “Spartan System”: Spartiates (“true” Spartans), helots, etc.

Pomeroy et al. Ancient Greece, chapter five. Growth of Athens and Persian War.

People, places, terms:

Solon

Pisistratus

Cleisthenes

Darius

Xerxes

Draco

c. 590 - Solon’s reforms

100. c.500 - reforms of Cleisthenes
     

490 - Battle of Marathon

480 - Battle of Thermopylae

ostracism

Themistocles

480- Battle of Salamis

trireme

Topics & Events:

Exact nature of Solon’s reforms (in some detail) and their importance

Exact nature of the reforms of Cleisthenes (in some detail) and their importance

Oppositions between Athenian and Spartan society/political system (this extends into the following chapters on the Peloponnesian War)

Reason for the importance of the Athenian navy (ditto)