Study Guide
CP Western Civilization
Chapter 4 Sections 1-3
Minoan Civilization: lived on Crete; after king Minos; earliest civilization; based on trade not conquest; used art to reflect them; used others cultures and customs
Polis: a city-state; political
Oligarchy: rule by some people
Acropolis: high city; city built high up on a cliff for defense purposes
City-State: independent; own government; isolated; doesn’t answer to anyone
Crete: island off the coast of Greece that was the cradle of an early civilization that later influenced Greeks living on the European mainland; Aegean surrounded; home to early civilizations
Greek Vases: stories and culture painted on them; held things such as wine and olive oil for trade; not all vases are decorated
Frescoes: art drawn on wet plaster of walls of the palaces
Homer: a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey; wrote epics singing of heroic deeds
Aesop: a slave who wrote fables
Monarchy: government in which the heredity ruler exercises central power
Aristocracy: rule by hereditary landholding elite
Hercules: most celebrated Greek hero; strong from birth; son of Jupiter; strangled snake in his hand; hated by Juno; lacked self-control; performed astonishing deeds of strength and courage; granted tasks that were meant to cause him suffering but completed all
Achilles’ heel: vulnerable spot
Trojan horse: built by the Greeks to carry them into troy to defeat the Trojans
Amazons: race of warrior women
Pillars of Hercules: strait of Gibraltar; dug a channel between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and held the earth apart with pillars
Hydra: 9 headed monster
Augean Stables: 5th task; cleansed stables that held 3000 oxen and haven been cleaned for thirty years; dammed the river through the stable to cleanse it
Golden Apple: Hercules convinced atlas to go get him the golden apple form his daughter while he held the sky up for him; tricked atlas into taking back the sky
Atlas: held up the earth
Laconic:
Chapter 4 Sections 1-3
Minoan Civilization: lived on Crete; after king Minos; earliest civilization; based on trade not conquest; used art to reflect them; used others cultures and customs
Polis: a city-state; political
Oligarchy: rule by some people
Acropolis: high city; city built high up on a cliff for defense purposes
City-State: independent; own government; isolated; doesn’t answer to anyone
Crete: island off the coast of Greece that was the cradle of an early civilization that later influenced Greeks living on the European mainland; Aegean surrounded; home to early civilizations
Greek Vases: stories and culture painted on them; held things such as wine and olive oil for trade; not all vases are decorated
Frescoes: art drawn on wet plaster of walls of the palaces
Homer: a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey; wrote epics singing of heroic deeds
Aesop: a slave who wrote fables
Monarchy: government in which the heredity ruler exercises central power
Aristocracy: rule by hereditary landholding elite
Hercules: most celebrated Greek hero; strong from birth; son of Jupiter; strangled snake in his hand; hated by Juno; lacked self-control; performed astonishing deeds of strength and courage; granted tasks that were meant to cause him suffering but completed all
Achilles’ heel: vulnerable spot
Trojan horse: built by the Greeks to carry them into troy to defeat the Trojans
Amazons: race of warrior women
Pillars of Hercules: strait of Gibraltar; dug a channel between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and held the earth apart with pillars
Hydra: 9 headed monster
Augean Stables: 5th task; cleansed stables that held 3000 oxen and haven been cleaned for thirty years; dammed the river through the stable to cleanse it
Golden Apple: Hercules convinced atlas to go get him the golden apple form his daughter while he held the sky up for him; tricked atlas into taking back the sky
Atlas: held up the earth
Laconic: