The Classical West
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Table of Contents
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Part 2
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"...So you had these two great civilizations--one Greek and dominated by city-states, one period Persian and ruled by the Achaemenid Dynasty – and they’re going to come into conflict with each other in a way that would come to define the classical West...."
Key Terms - Part 1
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Key Terms - Part 2
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Guided Viewing Questions
- What role did the polis play in Hellenic Greece? What political forms could be found in the Greek poleis?
- Why could it be said that the Achaemenids ruled with a "light hand?"
- What was Zoroastrianism?
- Discuss the impact of the Persian Wars on Hellenic Greece. How did the outcome of the war lead to both the rise and fall of the Hellenic Golden Age?
- Describe direct democracy as it existed in Athens. How did it emerge? How did it function? Why did it fail?
- Compare and contrast the teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Describe Greek architecture. How did it "unify the people of the Eastern Mediterranean?" How did Alexander the Great spread Greek ideas to the east?