What is an aristrocrat?
Landholders who provided calvary for the king's military ventures.
Who is the main god of the Greeks?
Zeus
What plant yielded purple dye?
Indigo
What are phalynx?
Rows of foot soldiers closely arrayed with their shield forming a solid wall.
Man who siezed power of the government single handedly
Why did the farmers lose their land to aristocrats?
Because they obtained loans from them and could not pay off the loans.
What is the name of a Greek god?
Diety
What increased when the greeks implanted the money system?
Overseas Trade
What did Sparta revolve around?
The army
Government for the people
democracy
What did the farmers become when they lost their land?
Sharecroppers
What mountain did the gods live on?
Mount Olympus
What was the Greeks first system of trade?
Barter System
What age were the Spartin boys taken away from their homes to be put in military barracks?
At the age of 7
government by the wealthy
oligarchy
What did the farmers sometimes sell themselves into when they lost their land?
slavery
Whos the god of wisdom and art?
Athena
In 600 B.C what did the Greeks implemant?
A money system
Why did the Greeks not believe that Spatra needed walls?
Because they had great soldiers
government of athens
democracy
Who were the foot soldiers sometimes?
Farmers
Apollo
Where was the first pottery to be exported made from?
Ionia
What age did men from Sparta become soldiers?
Age of 20
government of sparta
oligarchy