Vocab
The name for a Greek City State.
Polis
A style of government where it is rule by the people.
Democracy
This is the god of gods in Greek Mythology. What was he associated with?
Zeus-Lightning and thunder
The war that involved the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League.
The Peloponnesian War
What peninsula was Sparta on?
Peloponnesian Peninsula
Metic
The style of government that Athens had.
Direct democracy.
This famous blind poet wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Homer
The battle that ended the first Persian War.
The Battle of Marathon
The reason Greece could not unite it's city states.
Rocky terrain isolated the city states.
This council ran Sparta's government, they saw the day to day operation.
Ephors
The government style the United States has.
Representative democracy
Alexander the Great spread into many regions. Name two of them.
Greece, Egypt, Persia, or Mesopotamia
Why did Darius invade Greece during the first Persian War?
Athens helped revolting city-states in Ionian.
The mountain that was sacred to the Greeks. The Greeks gods had there home there
Mount Olympus
A famous conquerer spread this type of culture.
Hellenistic
These slaves helped Sparta become even more of a military state.
Helots
What Era did Sparta's victory in the Peloponnesian war end in Greece?
The Golden age.
The two main alliances in Greece were know as what? You must say both names and which city state was in control.
Athens-Delian League
Sparta-Peloponnesian League
What crops only grew in Greece?
Greek citizens could hide on this high hill. Government and temples were located here.
Acropolis
Sparta's government style, it had a council of Ephors in control.
Oligarchy
The first two early Greek civilizations. One was from Crete, the other from mainland Greece.
Minoans and the Mycenaeans
After the devastating Peloponnesian War, name two impacts it had on Ancient Greece.
Athens was defeated.
Sparta became the most powerful city state.
The golden age of Greece ended.
It allowed for Phillip and Alexander the Great to invade.
Name two out of the three seas that surround Greece.
Mediterranean Sea
Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea