Geography
The continent Greece is located on.
What is Europe?
Rule by the people (or citizens).
What is democracy?
The two major civilizations who fought in the Persian Wars.
Who are the Greeks (led by Athens and Sparta) and the Persians?
Blind poet, composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Conqueror who spread Hellenistic culture and never lost a battle; named Alexandria, Egypt after himself.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The two main types of geographic features that characterize Greece.
Rule by a person who illegally seizes power by force.
What is a tyranny?
Athens misused funds intended to rebuild the Athenian navy; Sparta broke off to create the Peloponnesian League.
What are the causes of the Peloponnesian Wars?
What is Corinthian?
an effective fighting formation made up of Greek infantry soldiers.
What is a phalanx?
The three major seas in ancient Greece.
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean?
Rule by wealthy landowners.
What is an aristocracy?
The alliance that was formed by the Greek city-states to prevent against future attacks after the Persian Wars; Athens took leadership.
The father of democracy, leader of the Golden Age of Athens.
Who is Pericles?
The highest point in a city-state where the most important buildings and temples were located.
What is an acropolis?
Two reasons the ancient Greeks established colonies around the Mediterranean.
What is lack of arable land and overpopulation?
The type of government found only in Sparta, consisting of 28 elders and 2 kings.
What is an oligarchy?
What are the effects of the Persian Wars?
The two Greek playwrights
Who are Aeschylus and Sophocles?
Greek tyrant who eradicated (eliminated) debt slavery.
Who is Solon?
Two things that Greek mythology helped to explain.
The natural world (natural phenomena, geographic features) and human behavior/emotions
The correct order of the evolution of Athenian government.
What is monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, and democracy?
The region that conquered Greek city-states after the Peloponnesian Wars and united them.
What is Macedonia?
The three major Greek philosophers and their claims to fame.
Who is Socrates (Socratic Method), Plato (wrote the Republic, established the Academy), and Aristotle (created the Scientific Method, tutored Alexander the Great)?
2) assimilated many cultures into a common culture
What is the legacy of Alexander the Great?