Government
This city-state was the head of the Delian League.
What is Athens?
The Greek city-states all united to fight against this, the most powerful empire of the time.
What is Persia?
The leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
This man would visit people in the agora and question them about their lives.
Who was Socrates?
Athens had this kind of government.
What is a democracy?
The first major battle of the Persian War, where the Greeks pushed back a Persian naval invasion.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
What is the city/city walls?
He started the Lyceum.
Who was Aristotle?
What is a monarchy?
What is the Assembly?
He sent an army of 100,000 soldiers to invade and destroy Greece.
Who is Xerxes?
This Athenian man proposed the radical and ultimately unsuccessful plan to invade Sicily to replenish supplies and pinch Sparta for Athens.
Who was Alcibiades?
This man wrote all of his ideas down in the form of dialogues.
Who was Plato?
Sparta had this kind of government.
What is an oligarchy?
In order to prevent corruption, Sparta had two of these.
What are kings?
The name for the narrow pass that was the site of the second major battle of the Persian War, where 300 Spartan soldiers fought and died against the Persian army to allow the rest of the Greek forces to retreat.
The profits from the Delian League launched a period of cultural explosion in Athens, often called this.
What is the Golden Age of Athens?
According to Plato, this form of government is the worst because it is most prone to corruption.
What is democracy?
When a group of noble citizens make all the decisions.
What is an aristocracy?
What is the Peloponnesian League?
The decisive naval battle that shifted the tide of the Persian War in favor of the Greeks.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
As a consequence of losing the Peloponnesian War, Sparta forced Athens to do this with its government.
What is abolish the democracy?
According to Aristotle, virtue is this.
What is a mean between two extremes?