Vocabulary
Who was the adversary of the Delian League during the Persian Wars?
What is Persia?
Only 25% of Greek land was this, which is why they relied heavily on trade.
What is arable (farmable)?
This is a famous structure in Athens that has been, in its lifetime, a mosque, a cathedral, a tourist attraction, and a temple to the Greek goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
What is the name of the body of water between Greece and Persia?
What is the Aegean Sea?
What is Sparta?
Because Greece is so mountainous, there were not large swaths of land that could develop into one big civilization. That is why early Greece's political organization was these.
What are city-states?
This Greek philosopher believed that absolute standards did exist for truth and justice and encouraged Greeks to go farther and question themselves and their moral character.
He was forced to drink hemlock by the government for "corrupting the youth."
Who is Socrates?
This was a conflict in the Persian wars where the Athenians won a surprising victory and a soldier named Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles from this battle to give the news to Athens.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
This famed Athenian ruler expanded Athenian empire, made Athenian democracy more efficient, and beautified Athens. He was also the commander during the Peloponnesian War.
Who was Pericles?
A group of people, often military or aristocratic, that rule a political structure is called this.
What is an oligarchy?
This group of people brought a "dark age" to early Greece, most notably because they lost the ability to communicate in written language.
Who are the Dorians?
Herodotus is the father of this study of the past.
What is history?
This is the name of the alliance formed between multiple Greek city-states during the Persian Wars. Later, Athens came to dominate this group and it became the defacto Athenian empire.
What is the Delian League?
Sparta was a difficult enemy for the Athenians because of the way their citizens were brought up. What did boys AND girls have while growing up in Sparta?
What is military training?
A Greek military formation that was unlike anything Persia had ever encountered.
What is a phalanx?
During the Dorian Dark Age, oral storytelling became extremely important for entertainment and the preservation of Greek culture. This man is the most famous Greek story teller.
Who is Homer?
These three men are playwrights known for writing Greek tragedies like Oedipus Rex, Trojan Women, and Antigone.
Who are Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides?
Who is the leader of the Persian Empire who eventually had to concede defeat to the Athenias?
Who is Xerxes?
After attacking this ally of Sparta, Athens was badly defeated by Sparta and lost the Peloponnesian War in 415 BCE.
What is Syracuse?