Sparta
Three hundred Spartans famously held off the entire Persian army at this pass.
What is Thermopylae?
These were the three decked ships that the Athenian navy built to dominate the waves.
What were Triremes?
The Minoans lived on this Mediterranean island.
What is Crete?
This government is known for literally meaning "people power."
What is democracy?
This was a fortified hill at the center of most Greek polises, which often housed important buildings and temples.
What was an acropolis?
Who was Leonidas?
The Athenians first defeated the Persian invasion at this battle.
What was Marathon?
This animal was sacred to the Minoans.
What was a bull?
This government type gave power to the hands of only a few- typically old and wealthy men.
What was an oligarchy?
The Greeks established these in order to farm, settle, and trade.
What are colonies?
Who was Lycurgus?
She was the patron goddess of the Athenians.
Who was Athena?
The Minoans were famous for building these.
What are palaces?
This was a person who seized power in a way that was not proscribed in a polis' constitution.
Who was a tyrant?
This geographical feature meant that Greek polises were often isolated from each other, and there was not enough space for farmland.
What are mountains?
This is the other name for the citizens of the polis of Sparta.
Who are Spartans?
Who were women?
Who were slaves?
The Minoans painted these animals on their walls.
This government featured the rule of a single person, whose authority was often given to his or her eldest son after death.
What was monarchy?
She foretold the destinies of the polises, particularly during the Persian Wars.
Who was the Oracle of Delphi?
The peninsula where the Spartans lived.
What was the Peloponnesus?
This was the name of the polis of the Athenians.
What was Attica?
What were olive trees?
This was a collection of rules for how a polis would be governed.
What was a constitution?
These were the citizen-soldiers who formed the bulk of the Greek armies.
Who were hoplites?