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Vocabulary
100
When members of a political community who runs each Greek city-state.
What is citizenship?
100
Leader who created a new council of 500 citizens to help the assembly carry out daily business.
Who is Cleisthenes?
100
A remarkable leader who managed to unite the Persians into a powerful kingdom.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
100
People gather at a mass meetings to decide on government matters.
What is direct democracy?
100
What is a peninsula?
A body of water with three sides.
200
An island that lies south of the Greek mainland
What is Crete?
200
An instrument that only wealthy girls can play.
What is a lyre?
200
People lived here which is now southwestern Iran.
What is Persia?
200
A leader who lead an army of Spartans but fell to an end.
Who is Thebes?
200
Someone to takes power by force.
What is a tyrant
300
A palace that revealed the riches of society a ancient society.
What is Knossos?
300
A noble who canceled all the farmers' debts and freed those who had become slaves.
Who is Solon?
300
A messenger who ran 25 miles just to say victory.
Who is Phedippides?
300
A famous speech that pointed out that Athenians were part of a community.
What is the Funeral Oration?
300
Captive workers.
What are helots?
400
Person who discovered one of the walled palaces in Mycenae.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
400
People who enforced the laws and managed tax collections.
What are ephors?
400
A king who ruled over all the Persian's land when the last king died.
Who is Alexander the Great?
400
A woman who was free in public and was not a native Athenian.
Who is Aspasia?
400
Small group that holds power.
What is a oligarchy?
500
Civilization that earned its living by building ships and trading.
Who are the Minoans?
500
Pork boiled in animal blood, salt, and vinegar.
What is black broth?
500
An Athenian general who created a plan to fight the Persians.
Who is Themistocles?
500
They hoped that the Athenians would send out an army to fight.
They hoped that the Athenians would send out an army to fight.
500
A peninsula in Southern Greece
What is Peloponnesus?
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