Geography
This geographical feature separated many Greek communities from one another.
What are mountains?
Athens is best known for this type of government.
What is democracy?
The conflict that helped begin the Persian Wars.
What was the Ionian Revolt?
The battle where the Greeks defeated Persia in 490 BC.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
A Greek warship that was fast and maneuverable.
What is a trireme?
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Sparta was best known for its powerful and highly trained _______.
What is an army?
This Persian king wanted revenge on Athens for helping the Ionian rebels.
Who was Darius I?
The battle fought at a narrow mountain pass.
What is Thermopylae?
This helped the Greeks at Thermopylae because the narrow pass reduced Persia's advantage in numbers.
What is geography?
The three seas surrounding Greece are the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and this sea to the west.
What is the Ionian Sea?
This age the Spartans started a training system to prepare boys to become warriors.
Age 7
The Battle of Marathon was won by who?
Who is Athens (Greek City-States)
The Spartan king who led the Greek forces at Thermopylae.
Who was Leonidas?
This city-state's navy was especially important at Salamis.
What is Athens?
Because the soil was poor and level land was scarce, Greeks commonly grew these two crops.
What are olives, Wheat and grapes?
Native-born adult males who completed military training could be this in Athens.
What is a citizen?
The Greek victory at Marathon proved this about Persia.
What is that Persia could be defeated?
The famous group of soldiers who fought with Leonidas.
Who were the 300 Spartans?
Greek city-states that often fought each other did this against Persia.
What is cooperate (or work together)?
As the population grew, Greeks traveled by sea and established these settlements in other regions.
What are colonies?
Athens was known for its navy, while Sparta was known for this military strength.
What is its army (or soldiers)?
This Persian king invaded Greece in 480 BC and wanted to conquer Greece.
Who was Xerxes?
The naval battle where Greek triremes defeated a larger Persian fleet.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
The five reasons Greece defeated Persia were geography, military skill, naval power, strategy, and this.
What is cooperation?