Geography & Early People
These are the two empires that battled each other in the Greco-Persian wars.
What are Greece and Persia.
In Athens, where will you find the Parthenon?
Where is the acropolis?
This is Xerxes' father. He lost the first of the Greco-Persian Wars' battles.
Who is Darius?
The Dorians invaded Greece from the north, chased a bunch of Greeks away, and thrust Greece into a period known as the "_______ Age"
What is the Dark Age?
This battle in the Greco-Persian Wars was the one in which the 300 Spartan warriors sacrificed themselves for the safety of Athens.
What is Thermopylea.
Under the Greek definition of citizen, who qualified for citizenship?
What are free, native-born men who owned land?
Cyrus the Great held his growing empire together by doing this.
What is treating conquered people fairly?
This island is in the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Peloponnesian Peninsula. The Minoans lived here.
What is Crete?
During the Peloponnesian War, this city encountered a deadly plague.
What is Athens.
The form of government developed in Athens?
What is Direct Democracy?
In 431 B.C., Sparta and other city-states joined forces against Athens to fight this war.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This was the downfall of the Mycenaean civilization.
What is the Trojan War?
What were the results of the Peloponnesian War? Name two of the four results.
What are the loss of an empire, power, and wealth for Athens, and that Sparta wins.
Why was Sparta economically inferior to Athens?
It was inland and had few trading routes.
This is a major difference between Athenian women and Spartan women.
What is that Spartan women could own property, but Athenian women could not.
The Minoans lived on Crete. Their main city, where King Minos lived was called _____.
What is Knossos?
What battle in the Greco-Persian Wars is remembered for giving us a race that is 26.2 miles long?
What is The Battle of Marathon?
How did trade with the Phoenicians affect the development of Greek society?
It led to the creation of the Greek alphabet and written language.
The Athenian economy was supported by _________.
What is farming and trade?
This was the main reason the Persians went to war with Greece in the Greco-Persian War.
What is to to expand territory and land?