Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Geography
The legendary king of the Minoans, who had a labyrinth under his palace according to myths
Who was Minos?
Persian King during 1st Persian War
Who was Darius I ?
The government of Athens
What was a direct democracy?
After Alexander died, his empire broke into this many separate kingdoms, known as the Hellenistic kingdoms
What is 3?
Who was Socrates?
The main sea of Ancient Greece, between the Greek peninsula and Anatolia (Turkey)
What is The Aegean sea?
Persian king during 2nd Persian war
Who was Xerxes?
The end of the Persian war brought about this for Athens
What is the Golden Age?
This spread throughout Alexander's former empire, promoting trade
What is the Greek language?
One of the 7 Ancient wonders of the world, in Alexandria
What was the lighthouse at Alexandria?
This geographic feature ensured Greece was made up of separate city states as opposed to a unified empire
What are the mountains? (or the fact that many of them were islands)
Battle formation used by the Greeks and later Alexander
What is the Phalanx?
This was the war they fought against each other in for 27 years
What was the Peloponessian war?
Alexander got as far as here before his soldiers nearly mutinied and he was forced to turn around
What is India/Indus river valley?
During the 2nd year of the Peloponessian war, Athens was struck by this, which greatly weakened them
What was a plague?
Who was the famed king of the Myceneans who led the Greeks in the Trojan war?
Who was Agammemnon?
Battle where the outnumbered Greeks crushed the unprepared Persians in the 1st war; Phiddipedes ran back to Athens to deliver the news
What was the battle of Marathon?
This was the leader of Athens, he died of the plague that struck Athens
Who was Pericles?
The father of Alexander the Great who conquered the Greeks
Who was King Phillip II?
The temple to Athena built during the Athenian Golden Age
What is the Parthenon?
The name of the land mass that Sparta is on
What is the Peloponessian peninsula (or the Peloponesse)
Battle in the 2nd war where 300 Spartans slowed down the Persian advance at a narrow pass
What was the battle of Thermopylae?
This was formed at the end of the Persian war to prepare for another Persian attack
What was the Delian league?
What is Alexandria?
Hellenistic sculpture differed from classical sculpture in this way
What is it was more realistic