Vocab
A Spartan soldier is called this.
Hoplite
Greece is this type of land form.
What is a peninsula?
This polis had the first democracy in the world?
What is Athens?
These are the most powerful members of Spartan society.
What are the Spartans, or Spartiates?
This is the culture that lived on the island of Crete before the Ancient Greeks existed.
Who are the Minoans?
A raised area in a house of worship.
What is an altar?
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country; Greece had these all over the Mediterranean.
What is a colony?
Only these people could have a life outside of the house.
What is men?
These are the second level of Spartan society, who have rights and do the craftmanship of Sparta.
Who are the Outsiders, or Perioeci?
This is the empire that Athens and Sparta teamed up to beat.
What is the Persian Empire?
The type of government that Athens had in which all the citizens were in charge of passing laws.
What is democracy?
The type of government that Sparta had in which a small group is in charge of passing laws.
What is an oligarchy?
These were the topics boys would learn in primary school.
What are grammar, music, and physical education?
These are the slaves in Sparta.
Who are the helots?
This is what Medusa became.
What is a gorgon?
A city, or part of a city or area that is fortified at the top of something.
What is an acropolis?
This is the "kid Olympics" held in Sparta for both boys and girls.
What is Gymnopaedia?
Athens is often credited for being the birthplace of democracy and this.
What is drama (or theater?)
Women in Sparta could own this.
What is property?
She is the patron of Athens.
Who is Athena?
The area of a Greek polis used for public gatherings of many kinds.
What is an agora?
This is a time in which no science, technology, music, literature, etc., is happening- people are just focusing on survival.
What is the Dark Ages?
This is a type of ship used in the Athenian navy.
What is a trireme?
This was the age that Spartan men could finally retire from the military and perhaps join the polis government.
What is 60?
This is the name of the war in which Athens and Sparta fought each other.
What is the Peloponnesian War?