Geography
Reason or cause of isolation between the Greek City States
What is the mountainous terrain?
The economic livelihood of the Minoans depended on this activity
what is trade?
One reason for the Greek Dark Age
invasion, overpopulation, soil exhaustion, drought
One reason Greeks founded colonies
relief from overpopulation, new resources, food importation, relief from class conflict, trade, allies in war
The Peloponnesian War was fought by
Sparta and Athens
Large group or collection of islands
What is an Archipelago?
Minoan civilization was based on this location
What is the island of Crete?
Government run by rich business owners
what is an oligarchy?
Reason Sparta developed their strict social structure
What is fear of helot revolt?
Philip of Macedonia established this military reform
What is a professional army, and a new phalanx formation
The narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land
what is an isthmus?
Two reasons were associated with the Minotaur
palace complex and use of the bulls in sport
Government run by the nobility, usually land owning
What is an aristocracy?
Reason Athenian nobility grew rich
what is exporting wine and olive oil?
The conflict which caused the Persian invasion of Greece
What is the Ionian revolt?
The body of water to the east of Greece
What is the Agean Sea?
An independent political unit, made of a city and its surrounding land
what is a city-state?
two characteristics of the Greek Dark Age
loss of written language, loss of technology, population decline, loss of cities
Reaction to Athenians to social instability
What is appoint a Tyrant?
Two reforms of Pericles
pay for service, male citizen participation, limit citizenship, Assembly most powerful government body
Name the straight separating Persia from Greece
What is Hellespont?
Specific way we found Mycenae
Homer's Iliad
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Name the first tyrant of Athens
Who is Solon?
Name of free farmers not Spartan citizens in Sparta
Who are the perioikoi?
The Delian League was established as a bulwark against this adversary
Who are the Persians?