Government
A class of wealthy merchants and artisans who took governmental power or shared it with the nobility.
Oligarchs (Oligarchy)
From the Iron Age, a fearsome military formation of foot soldiers - composed of upper-class soldiers - standing side by side with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other.
what is phalanx?
A blind storyteller who composed the Iliad during the Dorian Period.
Who was Homer.
Polis
What is a City-State?
Student of Socrates. Wrote the Republic, where he stated that the person with the greatest insight and intellect from the ruling class would be chosen philosopher-king.
Who is Plato?
What are Mountains
Valued military supremacy over personal freedom.
Who are the Spartans?
This great thinker and philosopher was Alexander the Great's teacher.
Who was Aristotle?
Demos; from Democracy
What is People?
Who is Socrates?
A type of government introduced by Pericles, in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
After the defeat of the Persians, Athens (under the leadership of Pericles) helped organize this. A union of sorts made of other prominent city-states.
What is the Delian League?
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Meaning virtue and excellence, a Greek could display this ideal on the battlefield or the playing field.
What is Arete?
A student of Aristotle and king at the age of 20, this leader promptly destroyed the city of Thebes after a rebellion and continued conquering other lands as far as Central Asia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
A legal code prepared by Draco based on the idea that all Athenians, rich or poor, were equal under the law, but was so harsh that this word has come to mean "extreme cruelty or severity."
What is Draconian
During the Peloponnesian War, Athens could boast a strong _________, though it was little help.
What is a navy?
A government ruled by a small group of noble land-owning families.
What is an Aristocracy?
Lover of wisdom
What is Philosopher?
Took money from the Delian League to beautify Athens.
Who is Pericles?
Who were the Mycenaeans?
A 10-year war fought between the Greeks and Troy in the 1200's B.C.
What is the Trojan War?
What is the Persian War?
Traditional Greek stories, of which the Iliad is one.
What are Epics?
When Sparta conquered the neighboring region of Messenia, the Messenians became peasants or _________. They were forced to stay on the land they worked, and give half of their crops to the Spartans.
Who were the Helots?