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WHAT IS AN AGORA?
THESE EARLY GREEKS LIVED ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE AND ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR FRESCOES.
WHO ARE THE MINOANS?
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
THIS KING INVADED GREECE AFTER THE ATHENIANS HELPED THEIR COLONY REBEL.
WHO IS KING DARIUS I?
ANCIENT GREECE WAS KEPT FROM UNIFYING UNDER ONE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF THIS PHYSICAL FEATURE
WHAT ARE MOUNTAINS?
ORGANIZED WAY OF THINKING
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
THIS EARLY GREEK CIVILIZATION IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE TROJAN WARS.
WHO ARE THE MYCENAEANS?
THIS TYPE OF GOVERNMENT EXISTS WHEN A KING OR QUEEN RULES.
WHAT IS A MONARCHY?
THIS SPARTAN KING SACRIFICED HIMSELF AND HIS ELITE WARRIORS AT THERMOPYLAE.
WHO IS KING LEONIDAS?
THESE THREE SEAS SURROUND GREECE
WHAT ARE THE IONIAN, AEGEAN, AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS?
A LONG STORY OR POEM ABOUT A HERO
WHAT IS AN EPIC?
WHEN THESE PEOPLE INVADED MAINLAND GREECE, A PERIOD KNOWN AS THE DARK AGES BEGAN.
WHO ARE THE DORIANS?
WHAT IS A TYRANNY?
AN ALLIANCE OF CITY-STATES LED BY ATHENS, TO PROTECT GREECE FROM FUTURE INVASIONS.
WHAT IS THE DELIAN LEAGUE?
THIS PHILOSOPHER WAS CONVICTED OF CORRUPTING THE YOUTH
WHO IS SOCRATES?
ANYONE WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNMENT
WHAT IS A CITIZEN?
LED BY PERICLES DURING THEIR GOLDEN AGE, THIS CITY-STATE IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY.
WHAT IS ATHENS?
THIS GOVERNMENT EXISTS WHEN THE POWER IS IN THE HANDS OF A FEW.
WHAT IS AN OLIGARCHY?
A NAVAL BATTLE IN WHICH KING XERXES WATCHED HIS NAVY BE DESTROYED BY SMALLER ATHENIAN SHIPS.
WHAT IS SALAMIS?
HE WROTE THE STORIES THE ILLIAD AND THE ODYSSEY, WHICH TELL TALES ABOUT THE TROJAN WAR
WHO IS HOMER?
A FAMILY OF GODS
WHAT IS A PANTHEON?
THESE GREEKS SENT BOYS TO MILITARY TRAINING AT THE AGE OF 7.
WHO ARE THE SPARTANS?
THESE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAD A VOTE IN ATHENS.
WHO ARE CITIZENS?
THIS WAR STARTED BECAUSE THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS BOTH CLAIMED VICTORY AFTER THE PERSIAN WARS--LEADING TO TENSION.
WHAT IS THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR?
WHAT IS THE PARTHENON?