Leadership by the upper class or nobility
What is Aristocracy?
The main import of Greece
Main Export?
What is grain?
Olive Oil
In 490 B.C the Persians arrived near Athens in this spot.
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Where is Marathon?
Literally means "rule by a few".
What is Oligrachy?
Lowest group in Spartan society
What are helots?
An army of Spartans held off the entire Persian army to the Athenians could organize for battle in this place
What is Thermopylae?
Someone who takes power illegally.
What is a tyrant?
The Athenians sunk 300 Persian ships here because Athenian ships were smaller and more maneuverable.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
Made reforms that prevented a revolt then freed slaves and made laws that no citizen could be enslaved.
Who is Solon?
The name of the large Greek island where the city state of Syracuse was found?
What is Sicily?
One valuable natural resource that Greece had
Stone
The two leading trading centers
What are Athens and Corinth?
Made it possible for any citizen to vote on laws.
Who is Cleisthenes?
What is 70-80 percent?
Two resources Greek trade had in its favor:
Stone for building and harbors.
One theory why city states developed instead of a Greek empire.
What is the result of a major water source/river.