Key Terms
A wide spread virus
What is a Plague
God of the sea
Who is Poseidon
Two groups of people who didn't have the right to vote
Who are women and slaves
A seller of goods
What is a vendor
A country in SE Europe, on the European continent Abania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey.
What is Greece
King of Macedonia who conquered Persia and Egypt and invaded India
Who is Alexander the Great
God of the sky
who is Zeus
A government where one person rules with force
What is tyranny
An action taken to isolate the enemy and cut of its supplies
What is a blockade
A large mass of land three sides of which are bordered by water
What is a peninsula
A city-state in ancient Greece; the capital of modern day Greece
What is Athens
God of war
Who is Ares
Athens, Greece is the birth place of this type of government the U.S. uses today
What is a democracy
A high rocky hill where early people built cities
What is an acropolis
The peninsula where Sparta is located on
What is Peloponnesus
A member of a rich and powerful family
What is an Aristocrat
Goddess of agriculture
Who is Demeter
A system of government that Greece had during the Mycenean period, where the ruling is in the hands of one person
What is monarchy
A person who belongs to a group that others consider wild or uncivilized
What is a barbarian
The island provided an ideal rest stop for ships sailing between Greece and Western Aisa
What is Rhodes (turkey)
Describing Greek History or culture after the death of Alexander the Great
What is Hellenistic
God of fire
Who is Hephaestus
A system of government where a small group of citizens controlled decision making, used by most cite-states in the Archaic period.
What is oligarchy
Someone who used reason to understand the world
What is a Philosopher
The three seas that surround Greece and it's islands
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian and Aegean seas