Vocab
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Athens
Sparta
Potpourri
100

A Spartan soldier is called this.

Hoplite

100

Greece is this type of land form.

What is a peninsula?

100

This polis had the first democracy in the world?

What is Athens?

100

These are the most powerful members of Spartan society.

What are the Spartans, or Spartiates?

100

This is the culture that lived on the island of Crete before the Ancient Greeks existed.

Who are the Minoans?

200

A raised area in a house of worship.

What is an altar?

200

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?

200

Only these people could have a life outside of the house.

What is men?

200

These are the second level of Spartan society, who have rights and do the craftmanship of Sparta.

Who are the Outsiders, or Perioeci?

200

This is the empire that Athens and Sparta teamed up to beat.

What is the Persian Empire?

300

The type of government that Athens had in which all the citizens were in charge of passing laws.

What is democracy?

300

The type of government that Sparta had in which a small group is in charge of passing laws.

What is an oligarchy?

300

These were the topics boys would learn in primary school.

What are grammar, music, and physical education?

300

These are the slaves in Sparta.

Who are the helots?

300

This is what Medusa became.

What is a gorgon?

400

A city, or part of a city or area that is fortified at the top of something.

What is an acropolis?

400

This is the "kid Olympics" held in Sparta for both boys and girls.

What is Gymnopaedia?

400

Athens is often credited for being the birthplace of democracy and this.

What is drama (or theater?)

400

Women in Sparta could own this.

What is property?

400

She is the patron of Athens.

Who is Athena?

500

The area of a Greek polis used for public gatherings of many kinds.

What is an agora?

500

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?

500

This is a type of ship used in the Athenian navy.

What is a trireme?

500

This was the age that Spartan men could finally retire from the military and perhaps join the polis government.

What is 60?

500

This is the name of the war in which Athens and Sparta fought each other.

What is the Peloponnesian War?

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