Chapter 2: Early Greece 2500-500 B.C.E

Population growth

________ increased disparity between rich and poor.

Corinth

________ transported other cities products from east to west.

Colonists

________ reduced population pressure on city and provided markets for grain and manufactured goods.

Myceneans

________ adopted artisanal and architectural techniques from neighboring cultures (especially Crete and Hittites)

Major increase

________ in population was the first sign of radical change in Greece.

Greeks

________ established colonies in what is today Ukraine, Italy, North Africa, Spain, and France.

Ethnos

________: large territorial units called in which people lived.

Archaic Age

The political, social and cultural transformations that took place in the ________ took different forms across Greek world.

Cleisthenes

________ pushed a final constitutional reform that became the basis for Athenian democracy.

council of elders

State was governed by two hereditary kings and ________.

Greece

________ is a stark world of mountains and sea.

Persian Empire

________ began process of conquest and expansion west into Asia Minor.

Phoenicians

________ were the source of reintroduction of writing.

Democratization of war

________ led to democratization of political life.

Minoan Crete

________ was a strongly stratified system in which the peasantry paid tribute in olive oil and other produce.

Corinthian pottery

________ appeared throughout western Greece and southern Italy.

Ionian Greeks

________ began to investigate origins and nature of the universe through observation by 6th century B.C.E.

Athens

________ was one of few Mycenaean cities to have escaped destruction t the start of the Dark Age.

innovative form of political organization

Polis: a more ________ which developed on shores of the Aegean and on the islands.

Athens united whole

________ surrounding region of Attica into single polis.

Persian victory

War took place and lasted five years, and ended in ________.

gods of Archaic Greece

The ________ were the same as those of the Mycenaeans.

Myths

________ supported the authority of social, political, and religious traditions.

Corinth

________ led the Greek world in production of black figure pottery.

Ethnos

________ was governed by an oligarchy made up of major landowners.

Greeks

The ________ and gods had an ambivalent, almost irreverent relationship.

Corinth

________ and its wealth were ruled in typical Dark Age fashion until the middle of 7th century B.C.E.

Corinth

Settlers from ________ founded Syracuse and other cities in Sicily and Italy.