Islanders and IsLANDers
This is a hill or cliff that Greeks would build their fortified cities on top of.
What is an Acropolis?
What is Athens?
This was the goal of Greek Art.
What is to portray images of perfection?
Poems were important to the Greeks for this reason.
What is they taught them their history, what their gods were like, and how heroes acted?
For most of Greek history, the greeks fought against this group of people.
Who are other Greeks?
Greeks living on the mainland could still be considered islanders for this reason.
What is they were isolated by mountains?
This kind of government gives people the power by allowing the to decide on laws and other matters of the city.
What is democracy?
The Acropolis of Athens was home to this most famous site of Greece.
What is the Parthenon?
This famous Macedonian leader conquered and established the largest empire in the world by the time he was 31.
Who is Alexander the Great?
These were the ever present arch enemies of the Greeks to the east.
Who were the Persians?
These are the geographic features that best describe the Greek landscape.
What are islands, peninsulas, and mountains?
This is a leader that takes their position by force.
What is a tyrant?
Athens was famous for being the home to these Big 3 Greek philosophers.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Within 50 years of his death, the Hellenistic empire turned into this.
What are three separate kingdoms?
Sparta had to transform itself into a military society for this reason.
What is fear of a Helot revolt?
These were the Bronze Age people who lived on the island of Crete.
Who are the Minoans?
By the end of the Greek Dark Ages, this class of people ruled Greek city-states.
Who are aristocrats?
This is how Athens was able to grow rich.
What is trade and silver?
This famous Greek poet wrote of the Trojan War and its aftermath in two of the greatest Epic Poems of all time.
Who is Homer?
This army won the Battle of Marathon.
Who are the Athenians?
The Minoans gained their power through trade, but the ___________ gained their power through conquest.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
This is a type of government where a small group of leaders make decisions for the group. (NOT ARISTOCRACY)
What is oligarchy?
This man was a famous leader of Athens who strengthened democracy in the city-state.
Who is Pericles?
The greatest of the Hellenistic cities, many scholars moved to this place for its impressive library.
Where is Alexandria of Egypt?
This army won the Peloponnesian War.
Who are the Spartans?