Key Terms
stories about gods and heroes used to explain the how world works
What is Mythology?
This was the first major civilization to develop in Greece
What is Minoan?
people who had the right to participate in government
What is a citizen?
Identify the governmental system created by Cleisthenes
What is democracy?
female regarded as the greatest lyric poet
Who was Sappho?
encouraged Athenian pride; advanced democracy
Who was Pericles?
these three kinds of landforms are found in Greece
What are mountains, valleys, and coastal plains
area of land surrounded on three side by water
What is a peninsula?
This is how Pericles changed Athenian democracy
What is by paying public officials?
moral stories usually with animals as characters
What are fables?
Greek poet credited with authoring the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who was Homer?
This was how the difficulty of mountain travel benefited to the Greeks
What is a natural defense?
a high hill upon which Greeks built
What is the acropolis?
Three reasons why the Greeks built their cities around a high acropolis
What is status, defense, view?
slave credited with writing stories to teach people lessons
Who was Aesop?
period of history marked by great achievements
What is classical?
Three examples of how the sea helped shape early Greek society
What travel, trade, and food?
leader who, alone, held power (usually with military force)
What is a tyrant
the kind of democracy Athens had
What is direct democracy?
rule by a small few (aristocrats)
What is an oligarchy?
a small Greek city-state
What is a polis?
How oligarchy differs from tyranny
O=> rule by few wealthy
T=> forceful rule by one
people (citizens) rule themselves
What is democracy?
the kind of democracy the United States has
What is representative democracy?
wealthy land owners
What are aristocrats?