Ancient Greece Study Guide: 99 Flashcards from Marathon to the Fall of Corinth
Learn Ancient Greece with 99 flashcards: Archaic to Hellenistic periods, Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Athenian democracy, Sparta, philosophers and gods.
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Ancient Greece is easy to muddle: three periods, two rival city-states, three Persian War battles within ten years, and a dozen philosophers who all founded a school. The Ancient Greece deck on Flip It (deck code HO6624, 99 cards) fixes the dates, names and definitions so you can recall them on demand.
Study this deck: Ancient Greece
1 / 10What period does Ancient Greece cover?
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A sample of the 99 cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| When was the Classical period of Ancient Greece? | Approximately 480-323 BC |
| When was the Battle of Marathon? | 490 BC, where the Athenians defeated the Persians |
| What was the Peloponnesian War? | A protracted conflict (431-404 BC) between Athens and its empire versus Sparta and its allies |
| What was the Council of 500 (Boule)? | A council of 500 citizens chosen by lot to prepare business for the Assembly |
| What was ostracism? | A procedure in Athens where citizens could vote to exile a person for 10 years |
| Who were the helots? | State-owned serfs in Sparta who worked the land for Spartan citizens |
| What was a trireme? | An ancient Greek warship with three rows of oars on each side |
| What major kingdoms emerged after Alexander's death? | The Ptolemaic Kingdom (Egypt), Seleucid Empire (Near East), and Antigonid dynasty (Macedon) |
| What innovation did the Greeks add to the alphabet? | Vowels (the Phoenician alphabet had only consonants) |
| When did Greece become part of the Roman Empire? | 146 BC with the fall of Corinth |
Everything the deck covers
- Chronology: Archaic (800-480 BC), Classical (480-323 BC), Hellenistic (323-31 BC), Homer (8th century BC), first Olympic Games (776 BC), Solon and Cleisthenes, Golden Age of Athens (480-404 BC).
- Wars and battles: Marathon 490, Thermopylae and Salamis 480, Plataea 479, Peloponnesian War 431-404, Chaeronea 338, Delian League vs Peloponnesian League, Corinthian League.
- Politics: the polis, direct democracy, Ekklesia, Boule, ostracism, who could vote (adult male citizens only), Pericles, Sparta's two kings and council of elders, the agoge (training from age 7), helots, Spartan women.
- Thinkers and writers: Socrates (hemlock, 399 BC), Plato (the Academy, The Republic), Aristotle (the Lyceum, tutor of Alexander), Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.
- Hellenistic world: Philip II, Alexander (336-323 BC), Ptolemies, Seleucids, Antigonids, Library of Alexandria, Cleopatra VII, Rosetta Stone, Stoicism (Zeno of Citium), Epicureanism, Cynicism, Skepticism.
- Religion and culture: Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Aphrodite, Ares, Oracle of Delphi, Eleusinian Mysteries, the symposium, gymnasium, agora, Parthenon and Acropolis, Doric/Ionic/Corinthian orders, black-figure and red-figure pottery, hoplites, phalanx.
- Expansion: Greek colonization (8th-6th century BC), Magna Graecia, the Black Sea coast.
Two study tips specific to this deck
1. Anchor everything to 480 BC. That single year is the hinge of the deck: it ends the Archaic period, starts the Classical period, opens the Golden Age of Athens, and hosts both Thermopylae and Salamis. Learn 480 first, then place the rest relative to it: Marathon is ten years earlier, Plataea one year later, the Peloponnesian War begins about fifty years after, Alexander dies roughly 160 years after.
2. Study Athens and Sparta as a two-column contrast. Many cards are mirror pairs: direct democracy vs oligarchy with two kings, Delian League vs Peloponnesian League, Ekklesia vs council of elders, citizens who debate at the symposium vs boys entering the agoge at seven. Reviewing the pairs together makes each answer a "not the other one" recall instead of an isolated fact.
How to work through the deck
Three sittings following the deck's themes (politics and war, thinkers and culture, the Hellenistic aftermath), then spaced repetition for the dates that resist, like Chaeronea (338 BC) or Socrates' death (399 BC). Open Flip It at flip-it.app, search for Ancient Greece or the code HO6624 in the library, and start with the first ten cards.
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