The Greeks built their cities next to these high, rocky hills, which could be used for protection during a war.
What is an acropolis?
100
This is a type of drama that usually ends badly for the main character.
What is a tragedy?
100
Nearly 1/3 of the population of Athens was made up of these.
What are slaves?
100
All Spartans were expected to put the needs of this before their own needs.
What is the city (Sparta)?
100
This is a type of government where citizens govern themselves.
What is democracy?
200
How much of the land in ancient Greece was good for growing crops?
What is 1/5th?
200
People who believe in using reason, logic, and the power of the mind to explain and understand natural events.
What are philosophers?
200
This was a public market that frequently became a meeting place for men to discuss business, politics, and things of that nature.
What is the agora?
200
This first battle of the Persian War, despite 2 to 1 odds, was a Greek victory. A modern day race gets its name from it.
What is Marathon?
200
Homer is remembered for these two famous epics.
What is the Iliad and the Odyssey?
300
These two bodies of water surround Greece.
What is the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea?
300
This famous Athenian's most important lesson was "know thyself."
Who is Socrates?
300
Homes in ancient Greece were plain, and typically featured one of these, which was the main area of the household.
What is a courtyard?
300
In the 2nd Persian Invasion, this Greek city-state took command of the Greek navy.
What is Athens?
300
Solon was an Athenian leader who was famous for having done this to the laws of Athens, to make them fairer.
What is reformed?
400
These were rulers who took power by force.
What is a tyrant?
400
This Athenian leader and reformer was prominent during the Golden Age of Athens, but died of plague along with 1/3 of the population of Athens during the first years of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
400
Women in Athens spent a lot of time here, weaving woolen cloth at their wooden looms.
What is home?
400
Sparta employed one of these during the Peloponnesian War, when it starved Athens into submission by land and sea.
What is a blockade?
400
In ancient Greece, winners of Olympic events received these as symbols of their achievement.
What are olive leaf wreathes?
500
During the Dark Ages of Greece, the poverty was so bad that people forgot how to do this, because it was not one of their basic needs.
What is write?
500
Athens grew prosperous during the Golden Age of Athens, chiefly from these three things.
What are trade, tribute, and silver mining?
500
Even though they had beeswax tablets to take notes on, at the end of the day, students in Athens had to do this with their daily lessons.
What is memorize it?
500
The Greek city-states formed this following the Persian War to defend themselves from future Persian attacks.
What is the Delian League?
500
During this battle, the Greeks used their superior military tactics and weapons to inflict heavy casualties on the Persians before they were betrayed by a local Greek and encircled.